Sometimes even a picnic is no picnic. -Jerry Seinfeld

A high energy rock band with hard-hitting funk jams and a thick reggae groove.

One Strong Army formed when long-time musical collaborators Billy Bronsted and David Blessent moved to Wausau, Wisconsin in September of 2014 with the intention of starting a band with drummer Erik Juvonen. The three had met years before at a battle of the bands in Eagle River, and had come together twice (Dec. 2013 and Jan. 2014) to jam at Billy's parents in Tomahawk. The chemistry was immediate. 

Since coming together the band has written over twenty five songs, released five recordings, recorded and is editing a live DVD concert and has played dozens of shows across Wisconsin and Minnesota. The band is keeping their calendar full with a full-length album in the works for late summer, early fall.

We're Monica da Silva & Chad Alger, also known as Complicated Animals. We're a Brazilian-American duo based in California. Our music crosses styles, and we call our genre Indie Nova. Our EP In This Game features songs in English and Portuguese. Pop Matters called it "a 6 song masterpiece", and "the beginning of a new sound" 

Our songs have been featured in the movie Lady Bird, in a campaign for Tory Burch, in the Netflix movie The Last Summer, and in a Patron Tequila ad. The video for our cover of Times Like These by Foo Fighters, just got an Honorable Mention in the 2024 WideScreen Film & Music Festival.

Our new single Watcher (out on 08/09/2024), is inspired by our love for crime dramas and Nordic noir TV, and poses a question to humanity - are we ready to act on what we believe?

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“I'd been thinking about there being two sides to everything, two opposing forces. Good and evil,” says singer Monica da Silva. “They are two sides of the same coin, but I want to imagine that good will prevail. That it's the more powerful force.”

Watcher started with a simple piano line that da Silva would play every time she would sit down at the piano. Producer and musician Chad Alger added drums and programming that swirl around the thematic, swelling melody, and seem almost woven into the plot, and entwined in the lyrics.

“We wanted the song to take on its own life”, says Alger. “Almost as if it were breathing on its own".

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