Dinosaur

Selections from Changing Modes 7th album Goodbye Theodora.

Chinese Checkers

Firestorm

Wasted

Arizona

Door

Selections from Changing Modes 8th album "What September Brings"

What September Brings

Days

Selections from Changing Modes 8th album "What September Brings".

Pretty Poisonous

Alexander Springs

Corey Booker Blues

Rocket

On Nov. 15th, we’ll be recording a handful of one-of-a-kind 7” vinyl singles with Leesta Vall as part of their Direct-To-Vinyl Live Sessions project.  This is a preview of the song we are recording.

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Autumn (excerpt)

On Nov. 15th, we’ll be recording a handful of one-of-a-kind 7” vinyl singles with @leestavall as part of their Direct-To-Vinyl Live Sessions project.  This is a preview of the songs we are recording.

https://leestavall.com/products/changingmodes

undertow (excerpt)

Glass of Winter (excerpt)

On Nov. 15th, we’ll be recording a handful of one-of-a-kind 7” vinyl singles with Leesta Vall as part of their Direct-To-Vinyl Live Sessions project. This is a preview of the song we are recording.

leestavall.com/products/changingmodes

Haze (excerpt)

CHANGING MODES :
Wendy Griffiths: Vocals, Keyboards, Bass 
Grace Pulliam: Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion
Yuzuru Sadashige: Bass, Guitar, vocals 
Timur Yusef: Drums, Vocals 

 The music of New York City based rock band, Changing Modes, began quietly in the mid-90’s when the principal songwriter of the band, Wendy Griffiths (vocals, keyboards, bass) started making her “bedroom tapes.” She says she had no intention of making these songs public. “They were like art songs with very unusual rock beats,” Yuzuru Sadashige (bass, guitar) recalls. “She programmed very complex layers of accompaniment on her Yamaha SY77, then sang along to record onto her $30 Sears tape recorder, very LoFi, you would hear house noise and car horns in the background, but they were extremely interesting and totally unique.”  
Lucid Culture (www.lucidculture.wordpress.com) describes their music very well: "New York art-rockers Changing Modes leap from one radically dissimilar style to another with gusto, guile and a tunefulness that won’t quit. Blending classical flourishes, punk energy, playful and clever lyrics that draw on 80s new wave and a ubiquitous element of surprise, every time you think you’ve got them figured out, they drop something new on you."  

In 2012, the band played NXNE in Toronto and also won M.E.A.N.Y Fest that year.  They also are regulars at the International Pop Overthrow Festival, and tour the Northeast regularly. 

The band has released seven albums and two EPs and have been actively performing their strangely catchy and complex music in New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Charlottesville, Philadelphia Toronto and Washington D.C.  The band has performed alongside The Ditty Bops, Brandi Carlile, Howie Day and King Missile.

changing modes

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