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	Two years of road work help Apollo Sunshine see the light - The Boston Globe
		Apollo Sunshine, a band that emerged out of Berklee College of Music two years ago with a debut album, ''Katonah," that swirled and roller-coastered its way through enough stylistic changes and avant meanderings to give Olivia Tremor Control fans vertigo, has become.
		But certainly, the Apollo Sunshine that progresses from its jukebox karaoke show to tearing up the pool room at the Harp, a little roadside bar in Amherst, is at least as much honest-to-God rock 'n' roll band as it is artsy, avant-pop ensemble.
		Apollo Sunshine has discovered it is a rock band with wide-ranging interests.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/09/09/two_years_of_road_work_help_apollo_sunshine_see_the_light (847 words)

	Apollo Sunshine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Apollo Sunshine is an alternative rock band of the 2000s currently based out of Leverett, Massachusetts.
		The band released their second album Apollo Sunshine in 2005.
		In November of 2005, it was named to the Amazon.com Best of 2005: Editors' Picks in Rock list at number 5 and the band was featured in Rolling Stone as an "Artist to Watch".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Apollo_Sunshine (276 words)

	Apollo Sunshine: Katonah - PopMatters Music Review
		Apollo Sunshine has already drawn the requisite array of comparisons that any new band must inevitably be subjected to.
		And these are accurate and indicative comparisons, giving you a sense of Apollo Sunshine's aesthetic, but you might also include heavy doses of older material by the Eels, some Jellyfish, and even hints of Ben Folds.
		Apollo Sunshine is a welcome addition to the indie pop fold, as much for their originality as their ability to mimic their forebears.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/a/apollosunshine-katonah.shtml (1490 words)

	BERKLEE \| Berklee News \| Rising Sun/Apollo Sunshine
		But Apollo Sunshine, who seamlessly meld avant-garde noise, ultra-melodic pop, country, rock, and punk—sometimes all within the same song—is no conventional band, and it can't exactly be marketed the same way as, say, Matchbox 20.
		Apollo's reputation as an explosive live act spread quickly, and it wasn't long before a big indie label like spinART took notice.
		Apollo Sunshine's CD is the first full-length one-artist release for Heavy Rotation.
	www.berklee.edu /news/2005/09/apollosunshine.html (1087 words)

	Apollo Sunshine: Apollo Sunshine (2005): Reviews
		There are great stand-alone songs here, like the 1960s-at-78-rpm sugar rush of "Eyes", but Apollo Sunshine is best listened to in a full dose and appreciated in all its messy glory.
		While their recorded output has still not quite caught up to their prowess as a live band, that moment is likely right around the corner; in the meantime, this album is more than good enough to make that wait worthwhile.
		apollo sunshine has grown enourmously since their first release.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/apollosunshine/apollosunshine (416 words)

	newburycomics.com - Apollo Sunshine - Self Titled - new CD available September 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since the release of their debut album, Katonah, Apollo Sunshine has thrilled audiences with their unique and eclectic sound; from avant-garde experiments to ultra-melodic pop, to rock, to punk (sometimes all within one song).
		Apollo Sunshine were named one of "THE bands to watch" in 2004 by Alternative Press magazine, voted "Best New Band" by the readers of the Boston Phoenix.
		Hailing originally from Boston, Apollo Sunshine formed as a trio while they were students at Berklee College of Music.
	www.newburycomics.com /rel/v2_home.php?storenr=103&deptnr=306&affnr=328 (435 words)

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		Last night I had the great pleasure of seeing Apollo Sunshine once again blow away the band in which they were opening for.
		I was wearing an Apollo Sunshine old-school shirt which they stopped making a year ago so that caught his attention.
		The only way I can describe the intensity of Apollo Sunshine would be possibly this...imagine I laid out a picture of each of the band members four in a row.
	www.xanga.com /pelican473/385460825/apollo-sunshine-live-and-perch-mix-3.html (1679 words)

	BERKLEE \| Press Release
		Apollo Sunshine's new self-titled album is a joint release by spinART records and Berklee College of Music's student-run record label Heavy Rotation records.
		Apollo Sunshine's CD is the first full-length album release for Heavy Rotation.
		Apollo Sunshine is particularly apt to be breaking this new ground with the label as the band has roots in the college and Heavy Rotation.
	www.berklee.edu /opi/2005/0803.html (735 words)

	Boston Music Awards to feel heat of band Apollo Sunshine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Now, Apollo Sunshine has been selected to perform its brand of rock 'n' roll at the upcoming Boston Music Awards.
		Apollo Sunshine has already appeared on late-night show Last Call with Carson Daly, and the Boston Fox television station featured them doing some crazy antics last week on its early morning show.
		The band's name is simple enough - Apollo is the God of music and everyone likes sunshine - and Gallagher says the feel of his new album is rock 'n' roll simple.
	www.andovertownsman.com /news/20050922/AE_001.html (714 words)

	Jesse Gallagher: From Nub-Tones to Apollo Sunshine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gallagher, a 1998 graduate of Andover High School, is currently shooting a music video with his up-and-coming band, Apollo Sunshine, in Los Angeles.
		With a record deal, commercial air time, an album out and a video on the way, he acknowledges Apollo Sunshine is making a name for itself.
		Apollo's the god of music, and everyone likes sunshine," he says.
	www.andovertownsman.com /news/20040122/AE_001.html (531 words)

	Apollo Sunshine: Apollo Sunshine: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even in spite of their prodigious pop songwriting chops, Apollo Sunshine fall more into the album camp, as their approach to melodious rock 'n' roll is gleefully chaotic, full of too many influences to properly enumerate them and inclined to stretch the conventions of media like so much sweet taffy.
		Apollo Sunshine's worldview, as their name suggests, is generally bright and hopefult, though it's tinged with enough uncertainty to provide tension.
		Even then, there were hints of the complex song structure they're into now with Apollo Sunshine, but this new band has no real genre outside of made-up, adjective-loaded hybrids like "manic, free-associative pop" or something like that.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/a/apollo-sunshine/apollo-sunshine.shtml (444 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Apollo Sunshine: Katonah
		Expansive experi-pop is Apollo Sunshine's gig, and they do it well.
		Borrowing heavily from They Might Be Giants, The Beach Boys, Elephant 6 and even the Grateful Dead, Apollo Sunshine move from loud, rambunctious rockers to metered marches, dreamy ballads to flashes of furious angst, occasionally in the same song (see "Sheets with Stars").
		Apollo Sunshine are musical adventurers who occasionally seem more interested in testing the boundaries of their compositions than they are in finding the heart of their songs.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=106772021821336 (337 words)

	APOLLO SUNSHINE \| Fresno Famous
		On their latest effort, Apollo Sunshine has abandoned some of their renowned frantic experimentalism in favor of focused performances that sound closer to a traditional rock album.
		While the group waited for months trying to find a way to recover the tapes, Berkelee College of Music (the alma mater of three of the four members of Apollo Sunshine) stepped in and offered to lend the group a hand in re-recording their "lost" album.
		Apollo Sunshine plays Howie and Son's Pizza and Beer in Visalia Wednesday, November 16th.
	www.fresnofamous.com /node/133 (454 words)

	Showtime for Apollo Sunshine - Muse
		With rock 'n roll quickly disappearing from many a radio dial, MTV playlist and local record store, Apollo Sunshine ushers in a new beginning, taking the best from each previous era and blending it all together -- a puree of pure originality.
		Disregarding carefully-crafted studio versions of their songs, Apollo Sunshine changed their tune often and eagerly, constructing a long-winded swinger out of the Buddy Holly-influenced "Today is the Day" and having their devotees clap their hands robotically to the energetic smash "Lord."
		Apollo Sunshine dumpster-dives through a musical history that has so clearly influenced the band, taking forgotten sounds and combining them into a fusion that sounds both decidedly vintage and cooly original.
	www.dailyfreepress.com /news/2006/02/16/Muse/Showtime.For.Apollo.Sunshine-1616684.shtml (375 words)

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		Apollo Sunshine is comprised of three members: Jeremy Black on drums; Sam Cohen on guitar; and Gallagher on vocals, bass, and keyboard.
		Lyrically, Apollo Sunshine was also able to hold up to their music.
		The entire crowd, most of whom knew nothing of the Apollo Sunshine or their music, screamed the chorus right along with them.
	www.nd.edu /~mindset/siouxaside/_showreviews/apollosunshine.html (1341 words)

	Apollo Sunshine: Katonah: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Now, eschewing angst and moody poetics for exuberant gushing, the Boston trio Apollo Sunshine (in addition to agreeing to a gush-gush name) are fighting hard to get good-feeling indie-jams back into the "acceptable" realm with their debut record, Katonah.
		But Apollo Sunshine have still managed to transcend the off-putting goofiness that so often accompanies these types of endeavors (see Fountains of Wayne and the getting-more-unbearable-by-the-second "Stacy's Mom"), releasing a record that, for all its feel-good leanings, isn't mind-numbingly upbeat, or even especially radio-ready.
		It's not that Katonah is anything less than a collection of melodic, hook-riddled cuts, it's that Apollo Sunshine refuse to stop moving, harnessing all their collective, happy-go-lucky energy into a curiously frenetic album, resulting in a debut record that shifts and wiggles like a pile of newborn puppies.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/a/apollo-sunshine/katonah.shtml (361 words)

	Apollo Sunshine + Controller.Controller + OK Go - PopMatters Concert Review
		Taking the stage to their custom-made funkalicious theme music, the scruffy, colorfully-clad members of Apollo Sunshine launched into a set filled with psychedelic riffs, disco beats, ukuleles, two-headed guitars, and a whole lot of mischief.
		During their 45-minute set, Apollo managed a tightly packaged, highly theatrical show, complete with thoughtful retro-pop transition music during guitar tune-ups.
		Apollo's short, shaggy-haired guitarist/vocalist, Sam Cohen, rocked some highly impressive, old-fashioned guitar solos and, at one point, pushed the guitar aside, replacing it with a pair of sticks.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/a/apollo-sunshine-060124.shtml (911 words)

	Spotlight on APOLLO SUNSHINE
		While it is true that Apollo Sunshine has been compared to the all of the above, most notably the Lips (The Boston Phoenix) and the heyday of Elephant Six (The Boston Globe), their first record, Katonah, finds Apollo Sunshine coming into their own.
		While their live shows may expand into a circus of friends, acquaintances, cheerleaders, priests, clowns, and/or confetti, the core of Apollo Sunshine is a trio: Jesse Gallagher (vocals, bass, keyboards), Sam Cohen (guitar, vocals, pedal steel), and Jeremy Black (drums/percussion.), who met while attending college in Boston and are now in their early 20’s.
		A little bit, but then it changes again — oh, those “oohs” were so Beach Boys, but there’s something more to itWhat it is, of course, is Apollo Sunshine, borrowing from a wide pool of pop resources, but creating something that is ultimately and completely their own creation.
	www.universalbuzz.com /ArtistspotlightNumber.asp?offset=45&Number=79 (502 words)

	So Much Silence: Apollo Sunshine at Cayenne Festival in Mesa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I have to admit: I'm doing some research to catch up with the lineup for Saturday's show.
		Apollo Sunshine is one of the bands that, if my indie IQ were high enough, I should have known about before now; for proof, check You Ain't Know Picasso, who interviewed these guys last month.
		Matt at YANP says: "It would probably be fair to say that Apollo Sunshine have built a reputation around being the opening band that outshines the headliner."
	somuchsilence.blogspot.com /2005/11/apollo-sunshine-at-cayenne-festival-in.html (210 words)

	Apollo Sunshine: Apollo Sunshine Aversion.com Review
		Apollo Sunshine is a hard band to dislike, but not impossible, surely.
		If Apollo Sunshine began singing earnestly about chowing down on its vegetables, it’s doubtful any of its fans would flinch.
		The most beautiful aspect of the approach is that it’s almost immediately accessible, which itself will doubtless serve as a bit of a warning sign for many listeners.
	www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=2284 (377 words)

	Punknews.org \| The Walkmen/Hot Hot Heat/Apollo Sunshine - live in San Francisco
		I got to this show somewhat early and surprisingly enough Bottom of the Hill opened their doors about 10 minutes before it said they were going to on their website.
		Apollo Sunshine was doing a sound check and were sounding really good.
		Apollo Sunshine opened up the show at around 9:40pm, which was approximately 40 minutes after the show was supposed to start.
	www.punknews.org /reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=1645 (1604 words)

	The Slip / Apollo Sunshine: Southpaw, Brooklyn NY - 12/30/2005
		Apollo Sunshine, still beaming from those Boston accolades and the critical success of their self-titled sophomore album, tore through an energetic run of vocal harmonies, power rhythms and psych-indie rock.
		With a new album due in the Spring, followed with an expected tour, 2006 should be quite a year for The Slip.
		Apollo Sunshine's not off to a bad start either.
	www.glidemagazine.com /1/reviews1131.html (506 words)

	Apollo Sunshine - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		Apollo Sunshine is a fun band to listen to, with upbeat pop-rock melodies that incorporate various instruments and are creatively arranged.
		A distinct effort with hints of influence from the Kinks, Beatles, and They Might Be Giants.
		Apollo Sunshine is a trio: Jesse Gallagher (vocals, bass, keyboards), Sam Cohen (guitar, vocals, pedal steel), and Jeremy Black (drums/percussion), who met while attending college in Boston and are now in their early 20s.
	music.download.com /apollosunshine/3600-8591_32-100393950.html (231 words)

	JamBase \| GOOD DAY SUNSHINE
		Before releasing their debut Katonah in October 2003, Apollo Sunshine was flown out to California and offered a lucrative six-album deal on an MCA subsidiary.
		As Cohen reminisces about the major label offer, he simply states, "It just wasn't solid looking to us." From there, Apollo Sunshine hit the ground running, playing over 300 shows in support of the album as well as giving up their homes for two years in order to stay on the road.
		Throughout Apollo Sunshine's songs, one can see that the 26 year old has perfected the craft that merges psychedelic wizardry into true rock and roll, but Cohen also proves to be equally adept at getting his twang on with the pedal steel guitar.
	www.jambase.com /headsup.asp?storyID=7899 (677 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Live, from the Apollo Sunshine
		Apollo Sunshine, this year's WBCN-FM Rock 'n' Roll Rumble runner-up, is at T.T. the Bear's tonight.
		Soaring from hand-clapping pop to sweeping, atmospheric rock worthy of early Radiohead" is how Alternative Press described Laguardia's major-label debut, "Welcome To The Middle." Laguardia is from Philly and is fronted by singer-keyboardist Joshua Ostrander.
		Palomar opens the show at 9 p.m., and then come Laguardia, Washington Social Club, and of course Apollo Sunshine.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2003/12/01/clothes_call (698 words)

	// ALTERNATIVE PRESS MAGAZINE \\
		Their harmonies are perfectly in tune; their chops are impeccable; and their arrangements are patently professional.
		A far better representation of the band's live show than 2003's Katonah, Apollo Sunshine runs the gamut of rock music from Wilco-esque ("A Finger Pointing At The Moon") to boxcar blues ("Today Is The Day") to the, well, just plain weird ("Phony Maroney" was inspired by a dance move the band created).
		But regardless of what subgenre they are tackling, the common thread here is that the band are clearly having fun romping through these 13 tracks-and what Apollo Sunshine may lack in cohesion, it more than makes up for in spirit.
	www.altpress.com /reviews/97.htm (150 words)

	filter magazine - media
		Hailing originally from Boston, MA, Apollo Sunshine formed as a trio while Jesse Gallagher, Sam Cohen and Jeremy Black were attending Berklee College of Music.
		, Apollo Sunshine are able to further augment their already unique approach to pop music making them even more dynamic on stage - switching instruments, singing 3-part harmonies, and recreating their complex recorded arrangements.
		Apollo Sunshine are true musicians and an American rock' n roll band.
	www.filter-mag.com /media/interior.445.html (232 words)

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