Artist Information
Biography
Schande is a band. An indie rock band, to be specific. Schande happens to be a band that hates writing bios and assumes that you hate reading them, and so here's what we feel is best...for both of us.
Schande: A very, very important band with four very important and totally interesting band members. totally.
Sounds like: The best thing you've ever heard in you entire life and/or early 90s indie rock. two guitars, one bass, a drummer, and pure collective musical genius.
Who Schande has played with: The Fall, The Gossip, The Thermals, Broken Spindles, Against Me!, The Fucking Ocean, Little Teeth, French Miami, tons of others
Where Schande has been featured: Filter Magazine "Welcome to the Desert" Coachella CD (featuring PJ Harvey & John Parrish, Bat for Lashes, Franz Ferdiand, Bob Mould & more), Spin.com, Artist of the month on DeliSF.com, video episodes for pacificnoise.com and wiretapmusic.com, college & internet radio and all over the interweb.
What people have said about Schande:
“Where have all the indie rock princesses gone? Jen Chochinov is cut from the same cloth as Liz Phair and Tanya Donelly." - Spin.com
"Schande's side is not unlike Cat Power, but the vocals sound even more exotically fragile (in an emotional sense) than Chan Marshall’s. But it should be mentioned that the main riff of Dig the Halo is pretty goddamn addictive, so if you’re susceptible to this kind of stuff, beware." - Byron Coley, Wire (re: split 7" with The Cribs)
"The kind of American music I lurve. Effortless cool, smart n slinky guitars underpinned with a minimalist rhythm section thats sooo on the money….Top fucking noise and no mistake." - Unpeeled (UK)
"This was a band with a big instrumental presence, the kind of textural sonics that Grandaddy does so well, or perhaps a bit like those long and winding intros that The Cure used to do at their peak. As the set progressed, a sort of hypnotic ambience took over, courtesy of the effective instrumentalism, and Jens vocals I would have been perfectly happy to listen to the Schande for the rest of the night." - Moles Club, Bath, UK (Live Review)
"Their full-length, I Scored an Ocean (self-released), has all of Schande’s thoughtful catchiness on full display. There are guitar hooks galore, as the two guitars play parts that sometimes interlock and sometimes oppose each other, creating the type of melodies that stay with you for days, endlessly repeating in your head and – unless you’re a cold-hearted, jaded-as-hell son of a bitch – make your head nod every time. Punky riffs of the jangly and buzzing varieties are in abundance as well, injecting the perfect dose of rockin-out to balance the more angular and edgy parts." - Mike G., Wiretapmusic.com
"I have no penis" - Random woman on the street
What Schande has released:
Jen Schande/The Cribs 7", Squirrel Records - SOLD OUT
Jen Schande - Kisses from Moters, Gashes from Bellers, Prion Records - SOLD OUT
Jen Schande/VA – 555 Records CD compilation
Jen Schande/VA - Nut Boppin' Whoppers Compilation, Squirrel Records
Schande - We're Talking About China, Red Square Records - LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Schande - I Scored an Ocean, Self-Released – SOLD OUT
Schande - You'll Never Guess What Happens In the End, Self-Released
Schande/VA – “Welcome to the Desert”, Filter Magazine Coachella Compilation
Schande/VA - Pssst! Digital Sampler, Filter Magazine
Schande/VA – Women In Music, Chicago Radio Compilation CD
Instrumentation
Jen Chochinov: guitar, vox
Will Cline: guitar, vox
Allan Wong: bass
Dennis Galway: drums
Discography
Jen Schande/The Cribs split 7"
Jen Schande, "Kisses from Motors, Gashes from Bellers"
The Schande, "We're Talking About China"
Schande, "I Scored an Ocean" (Several songs have received college radio airplay across the US, most notably "Out on You" & "Twenty Years Before Him")
Schande, "You'll Never Guess What Happens In the End" (currently receiving airplay on college radio).
Schande's song "Return of the Return" has been selected for Filter magazine's Welcome to the Desert 2009 CD, Women In Music/Chicago Radio CD, The Indie Revolution Radio Show/Podcast, Church of a Girl Radio and Schande has also been selected to appear on Spin Magazine presents: Sonicbids Radio Show on WFNX FM.
Video
Press
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Jen Schande/The Cribs 7"
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Schandes side is not unlike Cat Power, but the vocals sound even more exotically fragile (in an emot...
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Twenty Years Before Him (Demo)
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The kind of American music I lurve. Effortless cool, smart n slinky guitars underpinned with a minim...
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Schande/The Gossip (Live)
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This was a band with a big instrumental presence, the kind of textural sonics that Grandaddy does so...
Setlist
A typical set list for Schande contains between 7-10 songs - it depends on the kind of bands on the bill as well as where Schande falls in the line up. Preferring the "Leave them wanting more" instead of the overplaying until the crowd is waiting for you to leave approach, Schande prefers to keep the set to between 30-35 minutes. Schande performs all original material.
