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  Music | The Damn Personals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Over the past few years, local pop rockers the Damn Personals have achieved some national attention and a reputation for drunkenly chaotic performances.
There are places where the Damn Personals could stand to pull back: "Sleeping on the Floors United" really does sound like Queen, and the two five-minute epics drag a bit.
But with their second album, the Damn Personals have buckled down and come up with a self-assured soundtrack for everything that earned them their early reputation — drinking, flirting, and fooling around.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02521926.htm   (190 words)

  
 The Spectrum Online:
The Damn Personals are the guys who show up drunk to your midterm after not attending the class the entire semester and rock that B plus.
They are the class clowns with the magnetic personalities that you just want to hate but can't because, well, they're that funny.
The Damn Personals' performance validated them as a rising force in both the indie and rock scenes.
spectrum.buffalo.edu /article.php?id=6449   (559 words)

  
 In Music We Trust - Damn Personals, The: Driver / Driver
Though, the vocals seem to be the first thing your mind processes, and the last thing you remember after the music has vanished.
Once you get used to them, the punchy rock of The Damn Personals can be rather enjoyable and highly engaging.
Damn Personals, The: Standing Still In the USA
www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/41r09.html   (115 words)

  
 Music | Person to person   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
There was a time when the Damn Personals were known for being really cute, playing really loud, and getting really drunk on stage.
The new disc is one clue that this group have grown up a bit; another was their recent set at the Rumble, where they made the semifinals.
It's pop, but the songs are allowed to take some left curves instead of zeroing right in on the chorus ("Sleeping on the Floor" is a three-minute song with two minutes of intro, so it builds plenty of tension before the band finally crash in).
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/cellars/documents/02305264.htm   (1460 words)

  
 miaminewtimes.com | News | Nobody's Jesus
Whatever you call the Damn Personals, please, please don't refer to them as the saviors of rock and roll, even if their retro indie rock is the stuff that makes lazy music critics sling the clichéd term at bands like the Strokes, White Stripes, and the Hives.
Working their way out of Boston since the late Nineties, the Damn Personals have shared stages with acts like the aforementioned, as well as labelmates Piebald, Jimmy Eat World, and the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Deciding to calm their fondness for drunken shenanigans, the Damn Personals released Standing Still in the USA this year.
www.miaminewtimes.com /Issues/2002-10-10/catch.html   (220 words)

  
 The Noise 10/02: Live Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Back from a two month tour stint, The Damn Personals show that they have become veterans of the road and outright music professionals with their set at the nearly sold-out Middle East tonight.
The Damn Personals return for a three song encore that sends us all off into the rainy night with big grins on our faces.
Though I was aware of the potential for all the bands, I wanted the line-up for the evening to be in reverse order, with the Damn Personals headlining, and the Walkmen posted to explore their sound from the early slot.
www.thenoise-boston.com /live_reviews/225.asp   (4291 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Standing Still In The USA - The Damn Personals at Epinions.com
The Damn Personals, a local (for me) Boston band, start by writing kinetic riffs, upon riffs upon riffs.
And if the charts can recognize and reward the poignancy of "We were doing drugs to stay awake/ Now you're doing drugs just to get some sleep/ Now you're doing drugs just to annoy me", the Damn Personals sing it with enough sing-song urgency to put "Better Living" on the charts.
Here in Boston, the title track is getting radio play just as if the Damn Personals were famous.
www.epinions.com /content_86162640516   (615 words)

  
 The Damn Personals are Music For America | Music For America
MFA's Dan Droller was in a bar in Boston when he noticed a Damn Personal's tattoo on the bartender.
Being as cool as he is, he asked the bartender if he liked the band.
The following is a brief, off the cuff interview with Mike Gill, drummer of the band The Damn Personals and Jeff O'Neal from the band Rose of Sharon.
www.musicforamerica.org /node/80305   (139 words)

  
 Dismemberment Plan + Les Savy Fav + The Damn Personals - PopMatters Concert Review
Local band the Damn Personals were on stage and were tearing through their set with mod-rock precision.
The Personals have been a staple of the local music scene for the past few years but I've never been particularly taken with their brand of rock.
Les Savy Fav took the stage about 20 minutes after the Damn Personals left, and about 25 minutes after the Damn Personals' guitarist leapt from atop a 40-foot-high stacked amp back onto the stage in a truly rock star move.
popmatters.com /music/concerts/d/dismemberment-plan-030206.shtml   (1131 words)

  
 :: Codetta ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Ya' know, after listening to this one (Fake the Golden Age Lp) a few times...it really is a fairly outstanding cd in that these guys seemed to wrestle me into a good mood in no time.
Bring elements of Superdrag, The Damn Personals, The Lot Six, Foo Fighters, Oasis, Chisel, and Hey Mercedes together and ya' somewhat get what we're confronted with here.
It explores multiple concepts - politics, personal reflection, love, cultural divides - through an uncompromising fusion of sound and energy with a unique lyrical style that pulls no punches.
www.codettaband.com /bio.php   (245 words)

  
 DOA - The Damn Personals, The Kickovers - Revenge of Boston 7"
DOA - The Damn Personals, The Kickovers - Revenge of Boston 7"
Two relatively new Boston bands, The Damn Personals and The Kickovers, releases this sparkly blue slab of vinyl to commemorate their late-fall tour together, and the bands seem to be the perfect pairing.
Both show the new side of indie rock, the commitment to the garage-rock sensibilities that drove rock in the 70s and 80s as well as modern songwriting and stellar production.
www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewid=2015   (368 words)

  
 Punknews.org | Appleseed Cast/Ten Grand/Damn Personals - live in Iowa City
Gabe's still hadn't quite filled up for The Damn Personals' set, which was much more satisfying than The Break's.
The Damn Personals are on Big Wheel Recreation, and have a sort of similar punk heavily listened to emo rock sound.
Ten Grand, though I've seen them countless times, I'd think would have the opposite effect of what I was talking about with Damn Personals — they're really quite different from any band you've ever heard.
www.punknews.org /reviews.php?op=albumreview&id=1403   (1199 words)

  
 Splendid Magazine reviews The Kickovers / The Damn Personals: The Revenge of Boston   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
It's sort of a stadium rock tune compressed to garage-rock size, stuffed with melodic noodling and performance theatrics; you'll imagine them cavorting around an enormous stage like Cheap Trick at their goofiest.
The chorus ("We're / on our way / to better / living!") is extended to rock-opera excesses, and sticks easily in all but the stubbornest minds.
It's not just the heavier bass and punchier rock 'n' roll drumming that distinguishes "Mascara Queen", but the fact that The Kickovers aren't afraid to embrace their inner metalheads, laying cheesy harmonic progressions over thick riffs like it was still 1986.
www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=3252495960610862   (313 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | News | Matt Pond PA, the Mayflies USA; the Damn Personals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Damn Personals perform November 25 at Rubber Gloves, with the pAper chAse and The Appleseed Cast.
Swaggering Boston retro-rockers the Damn Personals know about hard English pop and college-town ennui, too--they named their new one Standing Still in the USA, and if they've done that, it's been to better soak in old Elvis Costello and Thin Lizzy LPs.
They never really do much more than gesture toward that kind of stuff on their own, but for kids too young to remember the source material, it might do the trick.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2002-11-21/preview5.html   (146 words)

  
 Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: The Damn Personals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Fresh off a top Rumble performance and about to release their new record, Standing Still in the USA (Big Wheel Recreation), Boston’s Damn Personals are, as we say in the business, ready for their close-up.
This must either be intensely motivating, one would think, or sort of crushing, to see all these bands blow up.
I wanted to know if the Damn Personals think their peers deserve all of the hype they’re getting.
www.weeklydig.com /articles/the_damn_personals   (1184 words)

  
 Cave In + Piebald + The Damn Personals - PopMatters Concert Review
CAVE IN + PIEBALD + THE DAMN PERSONALS
The memorably named Damn Personals, the first band to go on, displayed a refreshingly raw energy, but needed more polish in both composition and performance.
With greater time and exposure, this band might follow in the footsteps of a band such as Cave In, taking the basic red-blooded indie rock style and pushing it to its ethereal limits, all the while maintaining cohesiveness as an ensemble.
www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/c/cave-in-030407.shtml   (560 words)

  
 The Heights - The Vault Opens
All clad in fl shirts, the Damn Personals had a retro-rock/indie sound comparable to the likes of The Strokes.
In about an hour long set, the Damn Personals played a back-to-basics rock set that was engrossing and unique.
The Damn Personals showed a lot of promise in both songwriting and stage presence that could bring them much success.
www.bcheights.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=c5574687-24d3-4588-be45-3bd4ac079214   (630 words)

  
 erasing clouds
The Damn Personals/Kickovers is a quick blast of rock from Boston, featuring two doing the punkish pop-rock thing with energy and force.
The Damn Personals kick it off with a remixed version of their album track "Better Living," a maybe-sincere, maybe not promise to clean up their lives.
And you should, because it's too damn good to be left languishing on the shelf of your local record store.
www.erasingclouds.com /22janu.html   (5279 words)

  
 Blender :: guide
Garage rockers, indie kings, punk metallers — there’s a lot of variety to the Damn Personals’ sound.
Standing Still in the USA broadens the spectrum of their debut, Driver Driver, without ditching basics: The songs are still about girls, drugs and accidental death, with riffs you can whistle and tunes that sound like screaming.
From the charming (really) “Fucking in NYC” to the punk-esque “Amphetamine Rifles,” the Damn Personals write songs that shout at strangers from atop enormous steel bridges of guitar, held together by Ken Cook’s Boston-strangled vocals.
www.blender.com /guide/reviews.aspx?id=78   (153 words)

  
 Damn Personals: Driver / Driver Aversion.com Review
Not willing to grant bands the slightest bit of charity on behalf of their musical output, the Damn Personals middle-of-the-road melodies won?t make a dent in your exterior.
Be it the Damn Personals or Radiohead, there isn?t much you won?t extend your heart out to.
It?s probably time to update your personal web page in tribute to Eddie Vedder and include a mention of this record.
www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=213   (490 words)

  
 the Damn Personals "Driver Driver (Big Wheel Recreation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Just what are the Damn Personals you ask?
Maybe it can help the kids better relate to their parents, to bridge the gap between some of our differences in music.
"The New New", "Premier", "Sunshine" and "If I Could" are just a few of the songs that stand out and make this one of the best damn rock'n'roll CDs to come out in a long time.
www.angelfire.com /geek/nca/dpersonals.html   (122 words)

  
 On The Download - Damn Personals guitarist boffing Kate Moss?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
The Sky reports unnamed sources quoted in the Daily Mirror as saying that "the fact that [Moss] keeps hooking up with [Doherty's] mates really upsets him." We haven't had a chance to ask him whether it's true, and hell, it's the British tabloids, who have a sworn allegiance to making shit up.
Then again, Anthony's personal myspace page says he's "in a relationship." HMMMMMM....
"Damn Personals guitarist boffing Kate Moss?" (cutelatino2005) [Trackback]
www.thephoenix.com /OnTheDownload/PermaLink.aspx?guid=154dc017-def5-410c-b8c5-8a48f1f54a61   (407 words)

  
 us|against|them: Indie Classic Rock?
As they got up on stage, I checked out their gear and their haircuts and figured they were going to be something like a poppier version of Engine Down.
We've been around long enough to know better, Amy - the Damn Personals are just another forgettable band-of-the-minute that will be tossed onto the trash heap faster than your fashionable red t-shirts and white belts.
Thinking that the Damn Personals would sound like Engine Down because they dress the same (relatively) instead of vice versa, is a bit silly.
www.usagainstthem.org /archive/000421.html   (1394 words)

  
 Big Wheel Recreation - The Damn Personals - Standing Still In The USA - Full Length - CD - Official Merch - Powered by ...
Big Wheel Recreation - The Damn Personals - Standing Still In The USA - Full Length - CD - Official Merch - Powered by MerchDirect
This is the second full length from Boston's The Damn Personals.
Arguably the greatest rock n roll record to come out of Boston in the last 5 years, it shows amazing growth in the band.
www.merchdirect.net /x2/c/product.php?productid=1086&cat=&page=1   (82 words)

  
 babysue®: LMNOP® Reviews - July 2002
Beck manages to convey his ideas and emotions in a way that is inviting, unique, and personal.
The band's solid rhythms and loud guitars do nothing to hide the fact that this quartet's main objective is, first and foremost, to provide good, solid songs with strong melodies and quality hooks.
The compositions on the curiously titled Vardogr are accidental, strange, eerie, sparse, and definitely not what the average person would consider music to be.
www.babysue.com /LMNOP-Reviews-July-02.html   (5378 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk Music: Personals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
Personals by David Crane, Seth Friedman, Marta Kauffman, and Alan Menken (Audio CD)
Avenues Dating Personals -- Register today for a consultation.
We have almost a million members and thousands more joining to the personal ads all the time.
www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Personals&tag=websitedesi09-21&index=music&link_code=qs&page=1   (173 words)

  
 HIGH BIAS -- reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
And whatever personality a stray track may lack is more than made up for by the shining voices of the Aniorte-Paz duo.
The energy and vibrancy of the Damn Personals' approach to rock and roll comes through with no impediments whatsoever.
(It says something about the folks involved when Paul Reubens is the most famous person here.) Songwriter Kristian Hoffman is best known, if at all, for his role as main songwriter for the Mumps, an obscure New Wave band in the late 70s that never got around to recording a proper album.
www.highbias.com /reviews/20020804.html   (1654 words)

  
 Upcoming.org: The Damn Personals, Crash And Burn, Clouds, Weird Owl at Middle East Corner (Sunday, December 31, 2006)
Upcoming.org: The Damn Personals, Crash And Burn, Clouds, Weird Owl at Middle East Corner (Sunday, December 31, 2006)
The Damn Personals, Crash And Burn, Clouds, Weird Owl
The Damn Personals, Crash And Burn, Clouds, Weird Owl 18+ $10 adv / $12 DOS - NOTE: 8:30 pm doors
upcoming.org /event/47884   (104 words)

  
 JR.com: The Damn Personals - Driver Driver in Music: Pop:
JR.com: The Damn Personals - Driver Driver in Music: Pop:
To listen to sound clips, you'll need the most current version of the
The Damn Personals: Kenneth Cook (vocals, guitar); Anthony Rossomando (guitar, background vocals); James Zavadoski (bass); Michael Gill (drums).
www.jr.com /xs-the-damn-personals-driver-driver-in-music-pop--pi!3738790.html   (141 words)

  
 In Music We Trust - Damn Personals, The: Standing Still In the USA
In Music We Trust - Damn Personals, The: Standing Still In the USA
The vocals are still the hardest thing to swallow about The Damn Personals' brand of rough-edged, spastic pop-rock.
Standing Still In the USA is a solid collection of rock 'n' roll songs that seem to derive their flavor from both pop and garage, not to mention a punk rock and post-punk upbringing.
www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/54p05.html   (134 words)

  
 Nashville Scene Personals
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