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	The Wrens (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wrens are an indie rock band that formed in the late 1980s in New Jersey.
		The band was plagued by label problems throughout the rest of the 1990s, leaving them unable to release an album for many years after Secaucus in 1996.
		As of today, the band has apparently begun working on a new album, to be released in late 2006 according to Metacritic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Wrens_(rock_band) (460 words)

	woxy.com > Boards - Tell Wind-Up Records to suck it (For Wrens fans)
		The Wrens would have likely been forgotten by all but a few avid fans were it not for the release and remarkable grass roots success of their third album, The Meadowlands, released by Absolutely Kosher in September 2003.
		They were told they'd be a successful rock band but they had to compromise their sound and sign a binding contract, so they walked out.
		Supposeable the owner of Wind-Up screamed that the next band to walk through his door would become the biggest rock band in the world...that band happened to be Creed.
	www.woxy.com /boards/showthread.php?t=29785 (832 words)

	The Wrens - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		After a seven year exile brought on by label mishandling and bad timing, New Jersey indie-rock veterans the Wrens ended their unlucky streak in 2003 with the powerful, resonant, and surprisingly introspective album "the Meadowlands." With a hard-fought-and-won confidence, the Wrens sound completely rejuvenated and inspired.
		The Wrens spend the second half of 1996 and most of 1997 in a hilarious courtship ritual with various labels through their new attorney.
		In the meantime, the Wrens release an EP, Abbott 1135 (1997).
	music.download.com /thewrens/3600-8592_32-100620430.html (423 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com : Live: The Wrens
		The band, giving further evidence of their genuine goodness, was immensely appreciate, playing for and thanking the crowd as though they were in Madison Square Garden.
		When you feel like your favorite band is laying it all out for you, despite whatever technical difficulties, the feeling is far superior to seeing more established bands who maintain a studied disaffection and coolness.
		The Wrens showed that they knew they weren’t “cool,” but their honesty did more to make them far more awesome than any cool band seeking awe instead of love.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /concerts/wrens_0905.html (595 words)

	Little Quill Productions: Wrens Documentary Blog: Why? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		That album, "The Meadowlands," has brought the band renewed critical acclaim, from the smallest zine to the behemoths of the music journalism world, and a new legion of fans.
		The band members are in their thirties and forties; they've been a band for 14 years.
		The story of the Wrens — their belief in their music, their perseverance in the face of disappointment, and the road they've followed in the pursuit of their vision — demands to be told.
	www.littlequill.com /blog/archives/2004/04/why.html (567 words)

	The Wrens.
		The Wrens continue to evolve their own sound distinct from the strong Pixies influence from which they began.
		The band is apparently working on a distribution deal with a major, but don't wait for the wisdom of any big label to catch up with this great band.
		The two opening bands were "In Memory of Radio" and "The Faint" The Faint played a kick ass six song set consisting of at least two new songs from their forthcoming album that's set for release some time this winter.
	www.wrens.com /7press.html (1745 words)

	Wrens: The Meadowlands: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The band always made themselves accessible via Internet, and as the years passed, I would frequently email to wonder when a follow-up was due-- and even as I knew they had respectable careers and families, I didn't expect it would take seven years to see release.
		But the first-hand accounts of the band's own struggles are what really hit hard, particularly for listeners who've waited the full seven years or who have intimate familiarity with similar situations.
		The Meadowlands exemplifies what every fan hopes for when a band announces a reunion or returns from more than a half-decade of silence: that they might have somehow improved exponentially each year they hid from the limelight, resulting in a payoff so cultivated it could be called their defining achievement by consensus.
	pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/23240/Wrens_The_Meadowlands (730 words)

	IDSnews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With the billions of dollars being pumped into the music industry every year, it can be tempting for rock bands to alter their style to appeal to the masses.
		The Wrens denied the offer because they didn't want to be strong-armed, and Meltzer vowed to make the next band to walk through his door reach the top of the charts.
		One thing that's unique about The Wrens is that from listening to them, one may have a hard time understanding why other similar sounding rock bands have blown up while they have enjoyed mostly critical success.
	www.idsnews.com /news/story.php?id=25274 (1059 words)

	The Wrens: The Meadowlands [2003] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review
		The Wrens balked, and were summarily dropped from the roster.
		The Wrens faced that crucial moment so many bands dream of, deciding whether to "sell out" or stay true to their creative vision, and accepted the latter, even at the risk of dropping off the rock radar altogether.
		It's a difficult listen, because you know the Wrens are still striving to follow their muse, even as the bill collector bangs on the door and middle age encroaches.
	www.shakingthrough.net /music/reviews/2003/wrens_meadowlands_2003.html (651 words)

	The Wrens - The Meadowlands - Review - Stylus Magazine
		But a truly great band can make you believe, and damned if the Wrens aren’t making their claim to being a truly great band, because you’ll be sobbing inside, more with every line.
		This level of obviousness is fascinating for a band that until Meadowlands never wrote a line that could only be interpreted one way, and the Wrens don’t overdo it, only reaching the same level of forwardness of “Happy” once or twice throughout the rest of the album.
		It’s just lead Wrens vocalist Charles Mexico (I think—Wrens liner notes, while essential for complete enjoyment of the album due to their printing of the frequently incomprehensible lyrics, stubbornly refuse to list positions) clumsily plunking at a piano, (drunk?) and bawling after the six minute Grande Finale, “13 Months in 6 Minutes”.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=1324 (983 words)

	Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: The Wrens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The band became a local music staple in the early 1990's, entrenching themselves in a world of struggling bands and fanzines.
		In 1996, The Wrens were the big buzz band on college radio for their second album, Secaucus.
		The rock star dreams are mostly out of their systems, and while The Wrens may have had bad luck on paper, Jerry McDonald considers himself extremely lucky, content in his role of father, husband and inspiration to underdogs everywhere.
	www.weeklydig.com /articles/the_wrens (676 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Wrens
		The Wrens are probably the only band to ask the musical question "Where's my fresh diner daisy?" The New Jersey foursome stacks up 25 songs on Silver, a most ambitious debut album.
		The album displays the Wrens' newly impressive range, from the racing shamble of the opening "Yellow Number Three" and the glammy, vamping "Built in Girls" to "I'll Mind You," which is an ambient, spacey instrumental.
		Unbridled pop fortitude is in full effect on "Surprise, Honeycomb" and the tick-tock pace of "Hats Off to Marriage, Baby." The musical-chairs vocals make the Wrens' output resemble the work of several different bands at once, but a group with this much quirky verve shouldn't limit itself.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=wrens (232 words)

	The Iowa State Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For California band Rogue Wave, however, struggling to balance a day job with the band is a thing of the past.
		The band has also been able to upgrade its equipment, including the purchase of a real bass rig and a real hardware case for the drummer's gear.
		For Austin, Texas, band Okkervil River, the mansion and yacht have yet to be purchased.
	www.iowastatedaily.com /media/paper818/news/2005/12/08/Pulse/Highnote.The.Changing.Lifestyle.Of.Rock.n.Roll-1124284.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.iowastatedaily.com (1676 words)

	Eye Weekly - Born to Wren - 02.05.04
		By all empirical rock 'n' roll measures, The Wrens should be very, very dead.
		The boys in the band are a whole lot closer to 40 than 20.
		Last fall, The Wrens released their third album, The Meadowlands -- a mere four years after they first began recording it in their studio (i.e., their dining room), and just seven years after their previous, 1996's Secaucus.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.05.04/music/wrens.html (667 words)

	'Sup Magazine // The Hold Steady, Palomar, The Wrens (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Charles Bissell of the Wrens, Craig Finn of the Hold Steady and Rachel Warren of Palomar are all gathered in the backroom of Hi-Fi, a bar space bursting with a ton of memories that also once served as the venue for a who's who of the '90s best indie-rock bands.
		In 1999, Bissell and the Wrens played a show here,when Hi-Fi was called Brownie's and the future of the Wrens and their then-long-awaited album were all in question.
		Involved in major label implosions and enough creative blocks to build a skyscraper, the Wrens have been through their share of tumult; but their last album, The Meadowlands, was hailed and celebrated as a quintessential document of suburban rock, shimmering in the glorious imperfections of insecurity and self-doubt.
	www.supmag.com.cob-web.org:8888 /checkit/archives/2005/12/the_hold_steady_1.html (2534 words)

	WINDOWTITLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For a small number of fanatic Wrens fans (who somehow haven't already found out about this EP), that will be enough of a review, but for the rest of you: yes, it sounds like the Wrens.
		Their portion of the EP is three tunes, recorded at various dates ranging from 1991 to 2002, each sounding different from the other but each evoking that indefinable Wrens magic.
		The opener "Was There Ever" (from 1998) demonstrates again the band's mastery of home recording, with pitchbending guitar simulating pedal steel and a bass (or guitar played back at half speed?) on the choruses that sounds like a chorus of bull trombones.
	www.uwm.edu /~jenor/wrens5m4.html (452 words)

	The Wrens - Live in the WOXY Lounge - Each Note Secure (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There is something about The Wrens, something about their most recent release, The Meadowlands, that is rare and unique.
		The Meadowlands is one of the best pop album released in some time, at least in my opinion, and the band has managed to tour the labour of love for a few years now, as we all anticipate some new tunes.
		I had the opportunity to hang out at the WOXY Lounge last Saturday as The Wrens stopped in for a session before their show that night at The Southgate House in Newport.
	www.eachnotesecure.com.cob-web.org:8888 /the-wrens-live-in-the-woxy-lounge (355 words)

	sub zero \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Along with classic rock bands such as Queen, Zeppelin, Sabbath and Thin LIzzy, he was also influenced by the more obscure bands such as Be Bop Deluxe, Robin Trower, Montrose and Pat Travers The band covered numbers from these bands despite being only a musical 3 piece.
		Thus in the early part of 1980 the band embarked upon what would turn out to be a very successful, enjoyable, and memorable period, not just for the lads but also for all those associated with them, crew, family, friends and fans alike.
		Tribute bands are also big business at the Mount Pleasant club, with the music of acts such as The Rolling Stones, U2, Thin Lizzy, The Police, The Smiths, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, The Bee Gees, Nirvana and Kiss all due to be performed in the coming months.
	www.officialsubzero.co.uk /historyoftheband.htm (2612 words)

	tiny mixtapes gone to heaven - music reviews
		After 1996's pretty-much-brilliant Secaucus, the band has been on where-are-they-now status for the last six or so years, playing no shows since 1998 and rumors of record contract mishaps and recording troubles buzzing by the ears of anyone who bothered to care.
		Frankly, the sheer volume and quality on that record and the Wrens' debut, Silver had pretty well assured me that they'd be able to put something awesome together yet again.
		Here it is. In the same vein as classic indie rock bands like Sebadoh and current rock-poppers Boyracer, this is a big, wonderful album loaded with hooks, balanced (more than previous albums) between softer, dreamier songs and loud, fast rockers.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/w/wrens.htm (231 words)

	Band List - Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ché is not just a band but also a vibe, a band that insists that their music is so accessible it is only a matter of time until the vibe spreads.
		The band is a full-on tribute to 80's rock superstars Def Leppard, bringing all the energy and atmosphere of the real thing to a venue near you...
		Funky Skunk are a seven piece band comprising of:- Roger Roberts on keyboards and vocals, Brian Marr on guitar and vocals, Graham Clarke on bass and vocals, Dave Gibbon on drums, Martin Lewis on trumpet, Chris Barmby on saxophone Robin Baer...
	www.surgemusic.com /bands.asp/genreid_1 (6345 words)

	Kiki's Magical Music Reviews: The Wrens/ Kiss Me Deadly/ The Oranges Band; April 28, 2006; Schubas
		The last time The Wrens played Chicago, well indoors and announced at least, was at the Logan Square Auditorium, a large all-ages venue mostly booked by the Empty Bottle folks.
		The Oranges Band opened both nights, and I couldn't have been more thankful it was them and not KMD.
		Their record had just come out on his Spade Kitty imprint, I bought a CD and he was wearing a Wrens T-shirt, the rest is history.
	www.2bhifi.com /kiki/archives/001129.html (716 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Music : Prehistoric Rock
		The excellent band is on a national tour to promote its third and current album, the critically acclaimed Songs for the Deaf (Interscope), which is really a terrific album, regardless of any music-biz hyperbole.
		A call to the lackey the next day reveals that the projected interviews never happened anyway, but that the band's tour manager has your number and that you will be getting a message when the band decides to do some interviews--again, probably with only a few hours' notice.
		Both men were members of the legendary Kyuss, a band of sun-worn stoners from the Southern California desert that created a stir among critics and fans in the early 1990s.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid:46654 (1070 words)

	the wrens \| New Jersey
		November 4th: New York, NY Charles solo with the usual loops, pedals and older weirder wrens songs at the Gothamist’ CMJ day party at the White Rabbit (no cover, and no badges required though).
		As we’d mentioned last week in the little preview blurb about all this, there are a bunch of songs we either don’t play live or don’t play all that well.
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	www.wrens.com (803 words)

	Ozma (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ozma is a rock band from Pasadena, California.
		The band's sound is a mix of new-wave–influenced power pop and rock with pleasant Casio-driven melodies and heavy guitar riffs.
		In September, the band announced that they would be touring the nation again in October, along with the band hellogoodbye.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ozma_(band) (944 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| Coast to Coast with a Camera and the Wrens
		They have been traveling across the country with the band for over a year now, pulling together more than 100 hours of live concert footage and interviews with the band, their families, and their associates.
		While there's no shortage of music-related documentaries available, the Wrens are a band whose story is particularly worth being committed to film.
		And getting in touch with the band and having them sign on for the project was a lot easier than you would think.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/little-quill-productions-060213.shtml (1719 words)

	Indie Surfer Blog
		(Brock's band was also a stylistic touchstone.) In July 2005 the quartet issued a self-titled EP on the label by way of introduction; their debut full-length, Apologies to the Queen Mary, followed in September.
		The group that would become indie rock band the Never was first formed by high-school student Noah Smith as an art project at the North Carolina School of the Arts in the spring of 2000.
		Both the band and their new label are using the EP as a tester for a potential long-term record deal...
	indiesurfer.blogspot.com (1882 words)

	+/-'s Let's Build a Fire fails to ignite - Diversions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But on +/-'s latest album, Let's Build a Fire, the band hits and misses with their cyclical music.
		A reincarnation of the indie-rock band Versus, +/- creates melancholy, meandering tunes on Let's Build a Fire while moving away from the electro-rock genre they pursued in their past two albums, You Are Here and Holding Patterns.
		And, +/-'s hesitation to release the album in the United States - the band is releasing Let's Build a Fire in Japan and Taiwan beforehand - underscores their hesitation to take chances musically.
	www.diamondbackonline.com /news/2006/10/24/Diversions/s.Lets.Build.A.Fire.Fails.To.Ignite-2383498.shtml (572 words)

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