Bound Stems
Chicago's Bound Stems feature Bobby Gallivan (guitar/vocals), Dan Radzicki (bass), Dan Fleury (guitar), and Evan Sult (drums). Gallivan, Radzicki, and Fleury played on the same high-school basketball team and had been playing music for several years by the time they met Harvey Danger's Sult in 2001. A year later, the self-conscious indie rock sounds of the Bound Stems were born. The band's debut release, the Logic of Building the Body Plan EP, arrived on Flameshovel in late 2005. Vocalist Janie Porsche was also added to the lineup around this time. A performance at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, TX, followed in March. Appreciation Night was slated for a September 2006 release. While touring in support of the album, Gallivan realized he wanted to return to teaching, so the band returned to Chicago and began working on new songs, but hit an impasse. After a brief hiatus, they regrouped and continued recording in fall 2007, and their third album, The Family Afloat, arrived a year later.© MacKenzie Wilson /TiVo Read more
Chicago's Bound Stems feature Bobby Gallivan (guitar/vocals), Dan Radzicki (bass), Dan Fleury (guitar), and Evan Sult (drums). Gallivan, Radzicki, and Fleury played on the same high-school basketball team and had been playing music for several years by the time they met Harvey Danger's Sult in 2001. A year later, the self-conscious indie rock sounds of the Bound Stems were born. The band's debut release, the Logic of Building the Body Plan EP, arrived on Flameshovel in late 2005. Vocalist Janie Porsche was also added to the lineup around this time. A performance at the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, TX, followed in March. Appreciation Night was slated for a September 2006 release. While touring in support of the album, Gallivan realized he wanted to return to teaching, so the band returned to Chicago and began working on new songs, but hit an impasse. After a brief hiatus, they regrouped and continued recording in fall 2007, and their third album, The Family Afloat, arrived a year later.
© MacKenzie Wilson /TiVo
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The Logic Of Building The Body Plan
Alternative & Indie - Released by Flameshovel Records on 15 Nov 2005
Issued in anticipation of the Bound Stems' forthcoming full-length Appreciation Night, the EP The Logic of Building the Body Plan delivers chaotic, of ...
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The Family Afloat
Alternative & Indie - Released by Flameshovel Records on 9 Sep 2008
The Bound Stems brand of hyper-literate, high-energy rock & roll is destined to earn them comparisons to the Arcade Fire, especially when speaking of ...
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Appreciation Night
Alternative & Indie - Released by Flameshovel Records on 19 Sep 2006
Bound Stems have a grand vision of what music can communicate: their baroque, post-rock arrangements and instrumentation challenge the listener while ...
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