Boneless Children Foundation

Band Members ♥ David Sophia (vocals, guitar) ♥ Jonathan Kepke (bass, back-up vocals) ♥ J. Logan Barrier (drums, back-up vocals) Influences Talking Heads, the Kinks, the Dead Milkmen, They Might Be Giants, the Magnetic Fields, Andrew Bird, the Minutemen, the Fiery Furnaces, Terence McKenna, the Who, the Eurythmics, Michael Musika, Sean Hayes, T. Rex, Paul Simon, Weird Al Yancovic, Modest Mouse, [more details on myspace]

 

Boneless Children Foundation - Stars For Anyone

If indie bands were rated on their names, San Francisco's three-piece Boneless Children Foundation would be an instantaneous hit. You know you thought the same thing. It's got the look-twice factor.

Beyond the name, though, they're purveyors of that thoroughly upbeat, happily sarcastic punk-pop noise defined as a genre by They Might Be Giants; think the soundtrack of a higher-caliber teen movie produced in the 90's and you might be getting close. Their press sheet compares them to The Talking Heads, The Who and The Unicorns, which is right in a roundabout sort of way- it's distinctly punk drumming, some enjoyable straight-out rock guitar riffs and witty/ironic lyrics thrown on top (one of their songs is called Carl Sagan, make of that what you will). David Sophia Siegel, the frontman, has a very east-coast whine, all languid and sneering, which really defines their sound.

Admission: when I come across new bands I tend to categorise their sound not as 'who they sound like' but as 'the exact scenario in which one would listen to them'. You'd listen to Boneless Children Foundation on big old headphones at an American laundromat in a cool inner-city neighbourhood, while wearing sneakers and op-shop clothes, dancing stupidly around the driers. It's that sort of ironic indie post-punk extravaganza, so it's fitting that they've been garnering buzz via college radio stations.

Whether this makes sense to anybody beside myself is, of course, another question. If you want a more specific pinpoint, think the Dead Milkmen with a bit of glam rock thrown in to make things interesting.

Boneless Children Foundation have no shows planned at the moment, but head over to their Myspace for their album, and check out the very silly webcomic on their official website if you're into that.

 12/03/2007 08:51:15  jennifer my♥posts bonelesschildren myspace