All I Want For Christmas, Is You

"Miniboone couple humorous, free-associative lyrics suggesting a love of Pinkerton and Brighten the Corners with detailed arrangements which cull ideas from most styles of post-British Invasion pop music." - Prefixmag

"Power-pop scientists Miniboone have been working tirelessly on a chemical compound that can successfully bind the slacker protons of indie rock and the sincere silliness of '90s R&B. Maybe that's prepostorous: R. Kelly's sexbomb rhymes couldn't possibly tango with David Byrne long enough to call it an actual dance. But now, it's time to suck it, haters, because the New York band have accomplished such a feat." - Noisey

"Miniboone are a band who put a lot on their plate but they manage to pull it all off." - Death and Taxes 

Sometime during the waning days of 2008, in a dusty Williamsburg basement, beneath the haze of a burgeoning financial crisis, ripe with youthful energy and drunk on hope, Miniboone began the endless search for satisfaction that is the life of a rock band. That search has led them to their second LP, "Bad Sports," a chronicle of looking for joy and failing, only to find that joy hiding within the soulcrushing hunt itself.

In their search, Miniboone has shared stages with acts as diverse and acclaimed as the B-52s, Art Brut, and Real Estate, and brought their kinetic, unabashedly-delivered power pop to audiences at festivals such as Bonnaroo, SXSW, CMJ and more. They've produced an LP (2013's "Miniboone"), as well as numerous EPs and singles, which have received praised from likes of the Village Voice, NPR, the L Magazine and Vice.

To record their second LP, Miniboone (Tony Aquilino - bass, Craig Barnes - guitar / keys, Drew St. Aubin - drums, and Doug Schrashun - guitar) retreated from the skyrocketing rents of New York's inwardly advancing but still outer boroughs and decamped to an historic and reputedly haunted upstate manor with producer Travis Harrison (Built to Spill, Homosexuals, Dope Body). What they emerged with is an album that uses the thunder, fury, and layered vocal harmonies of classic rock's latter day gods to draw attention to the absurdity of rock in 2015. "Bad Sports" is the frantic chord changes and bilious sneer of vintage Elvis Costello beat over the head by the techno-beauty and IRL-disappointment of the 21st century, the booming right foot of John Bonham and the precisely twirled microphone of Roger Daltrey combining forces to smash a perfectly good smart phone.

Bad Sports will be released on April 21st through Ernest Jenning Records. Tour dates around the US will also be happening throughout 2015. Visit miniboone.com for more info, or, to truly connect with the band, seek them out on Facebook or Twitter. 



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"Taut New York five-piece MiniBoone are an enchanting mesh of old-school energy and new-school melody. The band mixes the dervish energy of '78-era post-punk with the super-hooks of modern indie-pop-think Buildings And Food-era Talking Heads if David Byrne could travel back in time and tell himself about Arcade Fire." - Christopher Weingarten, The Village Voice

"Joyous power-pop with unpredictable twists and turns... With guitar feedback, jerky rhythms and catchy hooks, these songs can get stuck in your head for days on end." - NPR All Songs Considered Blog

Since their first appearance in 2008, Miniboone have shared stages with acts as diverse and acclaimed as the B-52s, Art Brut, and Real Estate, and brought their witches' brew of caffeinated, unabashedly-delivered power pop to audiences at festivals such as Bonnaroo, South By Southwest, CMJ and NXNE.

After two EPs and one 7" comes the first full-length, covering the fertile crescent of stylistic ground between Squeezey brain-pop and Queeny big-sounds while, if you listen close enough, telling the classic story of friends trying to find their place in a rapidly changing urban environment that wants nothing more than to co-opt them, confuse them into adulthood, jerk them around from desk job to spineless desk job, and scare them straight with tales of unfulfilled dreams and missed chances. They recorded the album over the course of a year at Serious Business studios in Manhattan with producer Travis Harrison (Lifeguards, Homosexuals) and the result is equal parts proto-punk rave up ("The Superposition of Human Affection"), harmony basted slow burn ("Magic Eye"), and Hall-and-Oates-spectrum smooth-rock ("Baby, I Hope So"). 

All I Want For Christmas, Is You

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