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The Moldy Peaches

The Moldy Peaches

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The Moldy Peaches

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Years Active: 1999 to 2008

Genre: Anti-folk Lo-fi Garage rock Indie rock Comedy

Country: New York City, NY, United States

Website: http://www.moldypeaches.com/

Members:
Jest Commons
Justice Campbell
Brian Piltin
Chris Barron
Aaron Wilkinson

Artist Bio:

As a child, Adam Green loved mathematics. In his teens, he became interested in the occult, particularly Satanism. At the age of 19, he became acquainted with a volunteer minister named Eldar who took him under his wing. Eldar, who was an alchemist in many ways, asked Geoff Travis(the owner of Rough Trade Records) to provide him with funding to put together a hard hitting Satanist boy/girl group. Travis, already impressed with Eldars success with The Strokes, was all too eager to dish out the cash. Now that the money was coming in, Eldar began to form the band. He teamed Green up with Kimya Dawson. As a child Kimya sang her devil music to the good catholic kids in school, but her only previous experience in the "business" was singing subliminal satanic backup vocals for young Hellraisers Ben Kweller and the Bay Area Bad Boys known more commonly as Third Eye Blind. After teaching Adam and Kimya the songs, Eldar brought in four new musicians to add textures and to fill out the sound. Most of them were exotic male models who had recently left their agencies. With the exception of Jack Dishel, Strictly Beats, Toby Goodshank, and......[Read More]


 

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