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Crookston's music is relentlessly catchy and intangibly cool. Few bands can blend '70s-era power pop and glam with Exile-era Stones and come up with such an original sound, but this band does just that. On this EP, ex-Honeydog Tommy Borscheid serves up five strong songs with walloping melodic hooks a la Aimee Mann. It's far too few songs, really, but it's enough to establish the group's presence as New York's foremost progenitors of a retro-reverent rock that only semi-revels in decadence. With any luck, the next CD will include live faves like "It Will Come To Me" and at least one of their many hair-raising covers ("Itchycoo Park," "Just What I Needed, and Thin Lizzy's "Jailbreak," for starters). - Yeah Yeah Yeah
Discography
Troublemaker EP - Self Released 2003
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Bio
WHO THE F***?
Crookston is a New York City rock band. It's power pop with 70's flavor, ala T-Rex, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Badfinger.
TOMMY BORSCHEID, singer and guitarist, leads Crookston. He's a former member of Minneapolis band The Honeydogs (Mercury, Ryko/Palm).
Other members include:
GREG BESHERS - guitar
Greg plays with Mo Tucker from the Velvet Underground as well as leading the New York power pop band The Pillcrushers.
ANGELA WEBSTER - drums
Ms. Webster also plays with Brooklyn band The Holy Ghost.
DAN GREEN - bass
Dan plays with Sam Bisbee, Andrew Vladeck and two-bass guitar band Kilsy.
WHAT THE F***?
Troublemaker EP is a collection of five songs that harken back to mid-seventies' style of simple grooves and big guitars behind well crafted melodies.
The EP was recorded at the terrarium Studio and engineered by Jason Orris, Former bassist for alt- rock band Polara (Interscope). Jason's other credits include Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks and Golden Smog.
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