Eisley

Tuesday, June 29 • Doors 7pm • Show 8pm • $13 Advance • $15 Day of Show • All Ages • $2 surcharge for minors • Buy Tickets

w/ The Lion & The Sail and Christie DuPree

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Eisley was formed in 1997 in their bedroom after youngest sibling, Stacy, wrote their first song at age 8. They performed first show in Spring ’98, grew in local coffee house/rock venue, played 100′s of shows as unsigned indie for 4 years (’98 – ’02) in Texas, found and audience in Dallas’s Deep Ellum crowd about the time Sunny Day Real Estate released their 4th record. With a hand full of inspiring songs, new management and great press from music critics in the burgeoning Dallas scene, the young indie-pop group released their debut ep on Record Collection (Mike Mogis produced), signed w/ Warners, jumped on Coldplay’s Rush of Blood tour and began carving out a National following.

3 ep’s + 2 lp’s, 15 US tours, 3 UK tours & 1 Australia tour later Sherri DuPree – vocals/guitars, Stacy DuPree – vocals/keys, Chauntelle DuPree – vocals/guitars, Weston DuPree (drums) and their cousin Garron DuPree – bass, are expanding/growing (median age – 22), hitting stride and persist in writing beautiful, lush, melody-charged pop songs, arguably have the best female vocals in the biz’ and continue to win hearts and minds from a broad, growing demographic.

The band’s undaunted commitment to their own unique, visually imaginative brand of song-crafting has both nurtured their base and shielded them from mass homogenization. Indifferent to industry boundaries/conventions, Eisley continues to expand – focused on who they are, writing what they feel/experience as they remain devoted to song-crafting, relational marketing, touring.

Eisley is nearing completion on an exciting, brutally honest, catchy-as-hell 3rd LP to be released this year followed by a dauntless exhibition of touring.

Eisley is: Indie Rock, (on a major; but that’s just a style vs status issue). Emotional but not Emo (stop saying emo). Pop but not so popular (Warhol did pop in a commercial way. Rauchenberg did pop in fine art way). Soul-ful but not Soul,Dream-pop, but not a Dreamsicle (well, maybe… if dark chocolate replaced the vanilla interior). Alt (because AP magazine says so.) but not alternative…Maybe if the Fathers of “Alt” endorsed it, but Stipe or Cobaine will never agree. Haunting but not in an evil way; not like a scary, scary clown. Folkish (sometimes) but not country. Catchy – like when you catchy a fishy. Moody but not e-winey. Melodic – yes.very. Rock but take it out of the rock-tumbler after only 3 days (more than that and they get too polished. some disagree. we like guitars in tune and all that shizzle)Radio Rock? Not so far; the machine says they’re not “broad” enuf’ lyrically, so maybe that’s good; Radio = dumbie downio. sorry, but eisley’s music does not compare to the man-rock drawl that dominates the current dying, radio regime (dominion?).College Radio? – yes. Web Radio? – yes. Some Serius and XM. Modern Rock? – hmmm… Modern Art began late 1800′s and ended in the 1970′s; Music and art are typically joint manifesto’s. Organic: yes, but if an organ – a heart (aww…). Punk Rock? not, because yesterday, a punk rock fan left a message saying, “your music sucks, eat s___ and die”… nevertheless, it seems that the pop part of punk resonates w/ lots of pop-punkers.

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