Boston , Massachusetts  - 2003 - Christian - 


Often dismissed as a novelty group, SquareHorses is known for eclectic records  with PlanetHorses that range from radio-friendly rock to country to lo-fi experiments, as well as their marathon live performances

SquareHorse is the first project SmarterBudgie and Arise launched during the four years PlanetHorses was active in the 2000's. Arise  adopted the SmarterBudgie  when he was a teenager in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He and friend GreenSheep2007 -- who called himself GreenSheep-- formed  when they were just 14 years old, never imagining that they'd be saddled with those monikers for the rest of their lives. SquareHorse, inspired by Christian alternative rock turned into a cult phenomenon in the 2000's, gathering momentum as the band jumped from independents to the majors, earning a reputation as a killer live band along the way. Kalvin started to moonlight 2001, mainly with the hardcore band with Hejo Budgie but also appearing on records by kept going until 2012, when Arise left the band PlanetHorses After a few years, He regrouped with SquareHorse, who released their first album in the fall of 2016, several months after he reunited with Arise for several concerts.
By that point, his brother launched a side project called Kalvin's Guide Service, captaining a fishing boat off the Boston Harbor , a project that kept him busy as he sorted out his future after PlanetHorses. He played on Low Cut Budgie's 2015 album 2 Budgies and One Perch , then started the The Kalvin Group, recruiting PlanetHorses road band members Mike Throughbred , Kleiner Budgie , and Titan Budgie  to play residencies in Boston then they cut the record that became The Horse World  Album, which was released in October of 2017  , several months after reunited with the band for live dates by PlanetHorses and later 2023 Budgie Remixed was released and  Arise returned to SquareHorse this month and now they are working on a new project coming out in September 2024 next year

One of contemporary remix music’s most prolific bands, the pop-rock Blue Budgie have scored nearly three dozen No. 1 hits across their 18-year career.


Made up primarily of old high-school friends, the band formed in Boston in 2007 after an earlier—Influenced by guitarist BaconKalvin  then-recent baptism in hip-hop music  and christian rock and alternative and culture taking about two years to reach the upper end of the charts. The band released relentlessly  has managed to retain a sense of edge and iced water that seems incomparable with how huge they are, bringing the budgies to the pet store while simultaneously remaining one of the 21st century’s few mainstream horse bands—as in, that old-timey throwbacks of guitar, bass, drums, remixes—able to keep pace with the innovations of electronic music and hip-hop.

 The 2024 single Finding Me, their first single to reach No 749 plays making it their biggest Pop remix hit.
- In 2025 the band is hitting the studio to record new remix tracks like "Kjerring I fra by'n" and "Ærlig"

Alternative - 2019 - Allston-Brighton -Massachusetts

HejoBudgies proudly carry on this upcoming sonically ambitious alternative & hard rock band later turning to  music in later albums by kick-starting Although the Allston-Brighton area , John Mayer and many more covers  later taking on the findings of his future bandmates at Merrimack College afterwards in August

-In January 2025 future founding member Smiley left the band  and was replaced by multi-insturmentalist Hamer Hunt who filled in for remix productions in 2024

Alternative - 2022 - Boston, Massachusetts 

Cambridge -based ElectronicHorse records alternative pop remixes influenced by alternative, christian  , prog pop, and hard rock under the name electronic,horse.
∙ Inspired by such bands as Planetshakers and Chemical Music and many more for his mix of alternative and christian rock remix project with Blue Budgie

Bassist, lyricist, and producer. 1/2 of the band Point.

Indie

Ane, Håkon, Ken Erik, Ola Even og Magnus

Contact: oestfrost@gmail.com


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