Despite their humble beginnings in the East Bay house party circuit, all-girl quartet The Splinters have quickly honed their musical chops and developed a real knack for filling their garage-pop songs with the stickiest of pop hooks. Their early recordings and joyful live performances at SXSW 2009 were met with kind words from the likes of Gorilla Vs. Bear, Venus Magazine, The Tripwire, and The Portland Mercury, among many others.
"Splintered Bridges "is the band's first proper release. While fans will quickly recognize "Splintered Bridges" and "Sorry" as staples of the girls' live show, newcomers will undoubtedly be enamored by the mix of vintage garage riffs, '60s girl group-style vocal harmonies, and slacker charm.
The 7" is a limited-edition release, as only 300 copies have been pressed. Of those, a very small number are being sold with jackets hand-decorated by the girls themselves. These one-of-a-kind records won't last long, so we'd advise you to order one before they disappear.
The Splinters may have only been a band since 2008, but the girls actually began palling around four years earlier as freshmen at UC Berkeley. In the waning months of their college careers, Ashley Thomas (guitar), Lauren Stern (tambourine), and Caroline Partamian (guitar) began messing around with music and cranked out a few silly, lo-fi garage-pop songs. Quickly realizing that a few of the songs were actually pretty good, they recruited their friend Courtney Gray (whom had previously played with Ashley in a short-lived Misfits cover band called The Skullfuckers) to round out the group on drums.
Within a few months, The Splinters found themselves playing a bevy of shows and writing one insanely catchy song after another, their ramshackle rock n' roll sound and multipart vocal harmonies earning them comparisons to everyone from '60s girl groups like the Shangri-Las to artsy post-punk groups like the Raincoats and the lo-fi grrl-pop stylings of early '90s K Records bands. The band tossed together a limited-edition, hand-decorated CD-R release, which quickly disappeared, and spent the next several months honing their craft-both recording new songs and playing shows with the likes of Mika Miko, The Mae Shi, The Coathangers, Explode Into Colors, The Strange Boys, Finally Punk, Sleepy Sun, and more.
Now Double Negative is dropping the The Splinters' first proper release, Splintered Bridges, a 7-inch single which will quickly be followed by more music in the very near future.
The Splinters "Splintered Bridges" 7-inch
Out August 1st, 2009 (now!)
1. Splintered Bridges
2. Sorry
www.myspace.com/thesplintersband
"Splintered Bridges "is the band's first proper release. While fans will quickly recognize "Splintered Bridges" and "Sorry" as staples of the girls' live show, newcomers will undoubtedly be enamored by the mix of vintage garage riffs, '60s girl group-style vocal harmonies, and slacker charm.
The 7" is a limited-edition release, as only 300 copies have been pressed. Of those, a very small number are being sold with jackets hand-decorated by the girls themselves. These one-of-a-kind records won't last long, so we'd advise you to order one before they disappear.
THE SPLINTERS
The Splinters may have only been a band since 2008, but the girls actually began palling around four years earlier as freshmen at UC Berkeley. In the waning months of their college careers, Ashley Thomas (guitar), Lauren Stern (tambourine), and Caroline Partamian (guitar) began messing around with music and cranked out a few silly, lo-fi garage-pop songs. Quickly realizing that a few of the songs were actually pretty good, they recruited their friend Courtney Gray (whom had previously played with Ashley in a short-lived Misfits cover band called The Skullfuckers) to round out the group on drums.
Within a few months, The Splinters found themselves playing a bevy of shows and writing one insanely catchy song after another, their ramshackle rock n' roll sound and multipart vocal harmonies earning them comparisons to everyone from '60s girl groups like the Shangri-Las to artsy post-punk groups like the Raincoats and the lo-fi grrl-pop stylings of early '90s K Records bands. The band tossed together a limited-edition, hand-decorated CD-R release, which quickly disappeared, and spent the next several months honing their craft-both recording new songs and playing shows with the likes of Mika Miko, The Mae Shi, The Coathangers, Explode Into Colors, The Strange Boys, Finally Punk, Sleepy Sun, and more.
Now Double Negative is dropping the The Splinters' first proper release, Splintered Bridges, a 7-inch single which will quickly be followed by more music in the very near future.
The Splinters "Splintered Bridges" 7-inch
Out August 1st, 2009 (now!)
1. Splintered Bridges
2. Sorry
www.myspace.com/thesplintersband
