Brando the Strong

It feels... like if Elliott Smith and Bonnie "Prince" Billy had sex while Tim Kasher videotaped it... yeah, about like that...

Influences include Cursive, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, the Good Life, Godspeed You Black Emporer!, The HuckleBuckles, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Slint, Elliott Smith, the Frogs, Ben Harper, Hayden, Pavement, Interpol, Liars, BlacVelvett, At the Gates, the Arcade Fire, the Breeders, Wilco, the Blood Brothers, 8Knots, the Beatles, the Art of Self Defense, Neva Dinova, Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, Death Cab for Cutie, Dead Prez, Dismemberment Plan, Count Basie, Deftones, DVDA, Fugazi, the Grateful Dead, Blur, Franz Ferdinand, (old) Weezer, Victor Wooten, Come September, Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, 2 Pac, Ugly Cassanova, Sublime, Modest Mouse, Time to Fly, Dr. Dre, They Might Be Giants, Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins, Table Dancing with Betty, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Negative Nancies, Less Than Jake, Sigur Ros, Stephen Malkmus, Foo Fighters, the Shins, Snoop Dogg, Radiohead, Shudder to Think, The TinkleDinkles, Reily, the Postal Service, Queens of the Stone Age, the Flaming Lips, the Pixies, The Stereotypicals, Outkast, Poor White Trash, Geoff Waring, Nine Inch Nails, The Good Work Gumshoes, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Miles Davis, Nofx, Mogwai, Zwan, Mirah, Feist, Michael Jackson, The Four Horsemen, Jeff Buckley, the FakeNames, Local H, ZZ Top, Pink Floyd, the Jim Yoshii Pile-Up, Iron & Wine, Haf-Sac, Inspection 12, World Champions, Goldfrapp, Incubus, Grandaddy, Fu Manchu, Tiny Tim... more recently: Spoon, Blonde Redhead, Hot Chip, Death From Above 1979, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, the Advantage, Hella, Aqueduct, Superwolf, Chavez, Daft Punk, Broken Spindles, Basement Jaxx, Broken Social Scene, Neutral Milk Hotel...