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Formed in a frigid Brooklyn basement in 2006, Action Painters are a scraggly band of misfits who practiced hard and won the big game. They play intoxicating power-pop-new-wave-soul that will make you shake your ass and pinch your girlfriend's skittles.
Action Painters have been a Spin.com Band of the Day, are currently a Deli Magazine band of the month, and are hoping to be Miss Universe 2009. Debut CD, Chubby Dancer, is available on itunes. Untitled Fall 2008 CD coming soon!!!
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Action Painters do twinkly heartache with the best of them ("Cold Dead Corner”), and their up-tempo numbers (“Never Say I'm Sorry") are convincingly jagged. It's when they let the excitement of being young and romantic make them dizzy, though, that they excel. Album opener "Absolutely Clear" can't decide whether it wants to be classic rawk or post-punk, so Haslow lets his voice tremble and shake and splits the difference, landing somewhere frenetic and epic and sweet. Buried beneath the artsy fury lies AM radio gold.
--Spin.com
“This catchy, upbeat quintet out of Brooklyn, NY, takes what sounds like traditional power pop--huge hooks, pegged twinned guitar lines, catchy choruses--and rubs off the typical overproduced sheen and cosmetic prettiness via its own take on soul grittiness. What's left, as evident on its Chubby Dancer EP, is a ramshackle, dance-friendly indie rock that is refreshingly not readymade for One Tree Hill soundtrack fodder and boasts a focal-point frontman in guitarist/vocalist Tom Haslow, whose voice betrays a jaded lyricism that nicely compliments the Action Painters' imperfect songs about imperfect people.” --Baltimore City Paper
“Just when you thought that the days of great, smart-aleck power pop were long gone, the Action Painters have breathed new life into our old and missed friend. This is indie college slacker rock at its finest. Rock on!” --MashMusic
“Like a ragged Salvation Army version of Cheap Trick, these pop-rockers have created melodic anthems for the rest of us. Unlike similar minded indie-pop-rock acts out there, these guys manage to be both soulful and exciting at the same time.” --Fordham University’s “The Paper” AP has also been featured artist in/on/at The Village Voice, Deli Magazine, East Village Radio, 5acts.com, The Aquarian, FatAmpMusic.com, FiddleWhileYouBurn.com, and more...
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