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MY TEENAGE STRIDE

HOMETOWN: New York, NY

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Paste Magazine's Courtney Balestier wrote: "Let's take a moment to thank Jed Smith's ex-girlfriend. Were it not for her, Smith would've never entered—then won—a Williamsburg songwriting contest, which led to the formation of My Teenage Stride. The band started with Smith, bassist Michael Hollitscher and drummer Brett Whitmoyer. These days, it's primarily Smith, Whitmoyer along with Jenny Logan and Tris McCall. My Teenage Stride started turning heads with its third full-length release, last year's short but sweet Ears Like Golden Bats. The songs are poppy but not oppressively so, with witty, edgy lyrics-- and they've garnered more than one comparison to cuts from a John Hughes movie soundtrack... Still, Smith, a self-described studio rat from Massachusetts' Berkshire Mountains, wonders how his label-less band has gained so much exposure... And there's a reason (the band's) sound is so specific to the 80's: Smith doesn't think there was a good record made after 1983. They're too clean, he says, too expensive sounding. To avoid studio slickness, My Teenage Stride does its own recording."

My Teenage Stride is a classically pop songwriting-oriented machine based in Brooklyn. A songwriter since age 7, Jedediah Smith is a prolific songwriter and My Teenage Stride is the result of years of recording. The band's 2007 full-length Ears Like Golden Bats has been featured in many ‘Best of 2007’ lists but special mention must go to the #19 position in Magnet’s review of last year. It follows the article the magazine did on the band in the summer and is another example of the great response the album has had. My Teenage Stride are currently working on new recordings and an exclusive 5-song digital EP titled Lesser Demons is out now.

Sometimes emphasizing the finer aspects of early 60s bubblegum, the aggressive distorted lo-fi squall of art rock, the odd moment of 70s soft-rock, and the 80's brit-dance ala New Order, My Teenage Stride is not revivalist for its own sake, but really by way of whatever happens to be floating through Jed's mind at the time of the song's inception.

Smith is currently putting his prolific tendencies to work with Whitmoyer to finish the next, as-yet-untitled My Teenage Stride album, to follow recent release of Lesser Demons. The band has toured over the past few years to play summer festivals and short stints, but in 2009 they are spreading their wings to tour more in the North East and beyond.

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