Webspace:
www.myspace.com/tinyamps

Contact/Booking:
tiny_amps@yahoo.com

Upcoming Dates

Tiny Amps' quirky, relaxed but propulsive style of guitar-based rock felicitously hearkens to your all-time favorites, bringing an air of early '90's indie rock and roll, but wraps each note together into something novel that the present musical climate desperately requires. Songs about things less grand, about the mundane, about shopping for food, are comfortingly delivered in a pleasant growl. Singer Jeff O'Neil modestly explains in the soft-spoken, direct manner that his laconic lyrics often mirror, "The words, for the most part, are my attempt to write about the kind of things you experience every day. A couple times, I've plagiarized from short fiction and essays by left-wing pundits." Despite their diminutive moniker, Tiny Amps insist that the amps they play through are actually "really, really huge." Whatever the size, they bring direct, infectious rock sensibility that critics have compared to that of Pavement and Archers of Loaf.

Former band-mates and songwriting team O'Neil and Adam Franks were inspired to come back together in November of 2004, thereafter completing 12 songs as a duo and recording with their friend Kevin Micca. Very shortly following their hearing the demo, friends Adam Barilla and Michael Hutcherson, each an adept musician and veteran of Boston's music scene in his own right, excitedly signed on to permanently fill out the band.

The group will be rocking Boston and the Northeast in the person-to-person way, as it prepares for a fall/winter tour to back up their debut Redder Records full-length Trill & Swagger, recorded by Dave Auchenbach (Lightening Bolt, Wheat, Kind of Like Spitting) in Providence, May 2005. The ten tracks alternate between songs that languorously creep to bittersweet fruition and those that serve as fine dance material, yet all of them ensnare the listener and refuse to let go.