| Quiet Company | |
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| Origin | Austin, Texas USA |
| Genres | Indie pop Indie rock Piano Rock |
| Occupations | Musical Act |
| Years active | 2000 — Present |
| Labels | Velvet Blue Music Northern |
| Website | quietcompanymusic.com |
| Members | |
| Taylor Muse Thomas Blank Matt Parmenter Jeff Weathers |
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| Past members | |
| Alex Bhore Jesse Garcia Tim Robbins Michael Delaney Trevor Wiggins |
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Quiet Company is a rock band hailing from Austin, Texas, led by former Eisley contributor Taylor Muse. Their first album, Shine Honesty, was released on March 23, 2006 by Northern Records and is distributed in the United States and Canada by RED Distribution (Sony BMG).
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Muse was on the leading lines of the East Texas indie music boom with his bands Uncle Andrew and Neckpunch. He also lended a helping hand to create songs on Eisley's debut for Warner Bros. Records, as well as giving them their first name, Moss Eisley. He parted ways from the family formed group after playing bass guitar in live shows in order to focus on other projects. Taylor played drums and guitar in early incarnations of The Lonely Hearts (a.k.a. Holland, a.k.a. Somerset) but opted not to make the trek away from East Texas to join them in Nashville, TN, where they are based to this day. He recorded several tracks under the moniker Quiet Company that he released independently while playing with his band The Connotations. He also lent the track, Music For The Masses (When The Masses Have Mullets) to Jeff Cloud's label Velvet Blue's Scene But Not Herd - Unsigned Band Compilation #3.
Thomas Blank joined Quiet Company in the winter of 2005 after answering a Craig's List ad. His audition took place in Muse's walk-in closet, where Muse's keyboard was kept.
Jeff Weathers joined the band in the summer of 2008 after the breakup of Ethan Durelle, his band for the previous 8 years. Quiet Company and Ethan Durelle had shared the stage many times and it was there that Weathers caught the collective eye of Muse and Blank. He was persuaded to join the band by the promise that no one in Quiet Company would ever judge him for his shockingly deviant terrarium architecture.
Matt Parmenter joined Quiet Company in the Winter of 2008 after answering yet another Craig's List ad. His first show with the band was a Halloween show at Club Dada in Dallas where the band played all Pixies covers. He either found or lost faith in god that night, no one is sure which.
Several of the tracks on Quiet Company's debut album, Shine Honesty, were arranged and composed while Muse was fronting The Connotations. After some soul searching, The Connotations decided to part ways after their only official release, Trouble by The Truckloads from Mono Vs Stereo's The Revolution Will Begin In The Blink Of An Eye compilation. Muse took a handful of the songs that they had demoed and recorded Shine Honesty with Alex Bhore in May 2005. With the record completed, Muse began auditioning band mates to play his newly forged tunes.
Muse self-packaged CD-R copies of the new album with black & white covers and began to pass them around amongst friends and sold them at shows in Texas. Northern Records heard the unmastered version and invited Taylor Muse and Quiet Company to find a home with them. Andy Prickett lended his own brand of expertise in the mixing and mastering of the album and on March 23, 2006, Northern Records released Shine Honesty.
In October 2007 they completed their first music video for the song "Fashionabel", from Shine Honesty. The video was shot in Nashville, TN by New Valiant Productions and directed by American film maker Cameron McCasland. The video was released on YouTube on October 30, 2007. The video was picked up by MTV Canada and is currently playing in rotation and on demand.
Quiet Company recorded "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" for the 2007 release of Peace on Earth: A Holiday Album. The album was made available for download directly from the web. All proceeds from sales went to the Toys for Tots charity.
In 2009, they released a new album called Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon produced by Charlie Vela, and Louie Lino, of Nada Surf fame. In its first month of release, the record saw , roughly, twice as many sales as Shine Honesty had in its first year and a half and was met with critical acclaim.
The band lent their song "On Modern Men" to local charity organization "Music For The City" for their first compilation, for which the profits went to Safeplace.
Quiet Company released a homemade, stop-motion animation video for the song "It's Better To Spend Money Like There's No Tomorrow, Than Spend Tonight Like There's No Money," which is available online and on ME Television.
They also partnerned with local filmmaker, Justin Kirchhoff, to make a video for "On Modern Men," which is also available online and on ME Television.
In 2010, Quiet Company released Songs for Staying In, a 6 song EP, produced by Quiet Company and recorded by bass player Matt Parmenter in his apartment studio, Ice Cream Factory Studios.
Songs from Everyone You Love... and "Songs For Staying In" have been featured heavily on television programs such as My Generation, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Real World, and Married To Rock. Quiet Company also had a walk on role on ABC's My Generation, but the show was, unfortunately, cancelled before their episode was aired.
The song "How Do You Do It?" from Songs for Staying In was added to rotation on 3 of Austin, TX's rock radio stations, KGSR, KUT, and KROX. Quiet Company is the first unsigned local band to ever achieve rotation on all three.
In January 2011, Quiet Company were nominated for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards under the Pop/Rock Song category for "It’s Better To Spend Money Like There’s No Tomorrow Than Spend Tonight Like There’s No Money".[1]
Quiet Company released their third full length album, We Are All Where We Belong, on October 4, 2011.[2]
Quiet Company has done several national tours but plays predominantly in and around their home state, Texas. They have played with many notable acts, such as: The Toadies, Bob Schneider, Rooney, Evan Dando, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Eisley, Alpha Rev, Old 97's, and Dear & the Headlights.
Often joined by: