Music
Press
A power-pop explosion fueled by hooks you'll swear must grow on trees outside the singer's Brooklyn window. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Fortified with 10 essential hooks that'll bounce through your head well after the disc's end. - Punk Planet
A rockin' trio, with Hoy's full-throated singing leading the charge. This is power-pop with big guitar crunch, some real back-beat presence, and encircling guitars, bold melodies and no hint of boyish niceties or polite mannerism. Sign me up for the next gig, and see you in the front row. - Jack Rabid - The Big Takeover
On his self-titled debut album, Hoy has created, recorded, and performed two handfuls of power-pop tracks with instrumental elements of the 70s, 80s, and 90s and surprising, delicious lyrical pop culture references. The album has a lot going for itself, as does its originator. Hoy should please many power-pop fans, especially those who got into the genre over the last decade through some of its revivalists. -Sahar, Delusions of Adequacy - Delusions of Adequacy
A rockin' trio, with Hoy's full-throated singing leading the charge. This is power-pop with big guitar crunch, some real back-beat presence, and encircling guitars, bold melodies and no hint of boyish niceties or polite mannerism. Sign me up for the next gig, and see you in the front row. - Jack Rabid - The Big Takeover
Strong, time-tested melodies...songs spot-on in songwriting and production, and any of them could be a standout single on an edgy commercial station. - Pittsburgh City Paper
How exactly is it that HOY sounds more together the faster it plays? The band's self-released Forever Endeavour outclasses any number of pastry-cutting pop-punk bands by not even trying to compete....It's clear-eyed rock fueled by straight-up melodicism. - Time Out New York
Strong, time-tested melodies...songs spot-on in songwriting and production, and any of them could be a standout single on an edgy commercial station. - Pittsburgh City Paper
Muscular with brains, brainy with muscle, Greg Hoy writes the kind of left-of-the-dial rock that the repeat button on your cd player was designed for. - International Cork
Muscular with brains, brainy with muscle, Greg Hoy writes the kind of left-of-the-dial rock that the repeat button on your cd player was designed for. - International Cork
Discography
NEW single 'Follow Through' 7 Inch coming soon.
NEW full-length LP 'Forever Endeavour' out now.
HOY (self titled) LP (2003)
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Bio
The band's high energy stage show evokes the spirit of such luminaries as The Jam, The Kinks and Ted Leo: full of fresh, hook-driven and addicting rock songs, all out now on the newly released, even more caffienated CD, Forever Endeavour. Featuring a tasty guitar cameo by our buddy Brian Baker (Bad Religion, Minor Threat). Recorded both at Greg's home studio and with the notorious Mr Wohlsen in Brooklyn and mastered by West West Side, this recording is tweaked for hi-definition, stereophonic sound.
The first, self-titled CD HOY was recorded and released in 2003, receiving substantial support from NYC Press and beyond, getting placement of the lead-off track 'Tested By History' on the WB Network television series 'One Tree Hill'.
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