Quiet Company
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Quiet Company is a rock band hailing from Austin
, Texas
, led by former Eisley
contributor Taylor Muse. Their first album, Shine Honesty
, was released on March 23, 2006 by Northern Records
and is distributed in the United States and Canada by RED Distribution
(Sony BMG).
indie music boom with his bands Uncle Andrew and Neckpunch. He also lended a helping hand to create songs on Eisley
's debut for Warner Bros. Records
, as well as giving them their first name, Moss Eisley. He parted ways from the family formed group after playing bass guitar
in live shows in order to focus on other projects. Taylor played drums and guitar in early incarnations of The Lonely Hearts
(a.k.a. Holland, a.k.a. Somerset) but opted not to make the trek away from East Texas to join them in Nashville, TN, where they are based to this day. He recorded several tracks under the moniker Quiet Company that he released independently while playing with his band The Connotations. He also lent the track, Music For The Masses (When The Masses Have Mullets) to Jeff Cloud
's label Velvet Blue's Scene But Not Herd - Unsigned Band Compilation #3.
Thomas Blank joined Quiet Company in the winter of 2005 after answering a Craig's List ad. His audition took place in Muse's walk-in closet, where Muse's keyboard was kept.
Jeff Weathers joined the band in the summer of 2008 after the breakup of Ethan Durelle, his band for the previous 8 years. Quiet Company and Ethan Durelle had shared the stage many times and it was there that Weathers caught the collective eye of Muse and Blank. He was persuaded to join the band by the promise that no one in Quiet Company would ever judge him for his shockingly deviant terrarium architecture.
Matt Parmenter joined Quiet Company in the Winter of 2008 after answering yet another Craig's List ad. His first show with the band was a Halloween show at Club Dada in Dallas where the band played all Pixies covers. He either found or lost faith in god that night, no one is sure which.
, were arranged and composed while Muse was fronting The Connotations. After some soul searching, The Connotations decided to part ways after their only official release, Trouble by The Truckloads from Mono Vs Stereo
's The Revolution Will Begin In The Blink Of An Eye compilation. Muse took a handful of the songs that they had demoed and recorded Shine Honesty with Alex Bhore in May 2005. With the record completed, Muse began auditioning band mates to play his newly forged tunes.
Muse self-packaged CD-R copies of the new album with black & white covers and began to pass them around amongst friends and sold them at shows in Texas
. Northern Records
heard the unmastered version and invited Taylor Muse and Quiet Company to find a home with them. Andy Prickett lended his own brand of expertise in the mixing and mastering of the album and on March 23, 2006, Northern Records released Shine Honesty.
In October 2007 they completed their first music video for the song "Fashionabel", from Shine Honesty. The video was shot in Nashville, TN by New Valiant Productions and directed by American film maker Cameron McCasland
. The video was released on YouTube
on October 30, 2007. The video was picked up by MTV
Canada and is currently playing in rotation and on demand.
" for the 2007 release of Peace on Earth: A Holiday Album. The album was made available for download directly from the web. All proceeds from sales went to the Toys for Tots
charity.
In 2009, they released a new album called Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon produced by Charlie Vela, and Louie Lino, of Nada Surf fame. In its first month of release, the record saw , roughly, twice as many sales as Shine Honesty had in its first year and a half and was met with critical acclaim.
The band lent their song "On Modern Men" to local charity organization "Music For The City" for their first compilation, for which the profits went to Safeplace.
Quiet Company released a homemade, stop-motion animation video for the song "It's Better To Spend Money Like There's No Tomorrow, Than Spend Tonight Like There's No Money," which is available online and on ME Television.
They also partnerned with local filmmaker, Justin Kirchhoff, to make a video for "On Modern Men," which is also available online and on ME Television.
In 2010, Quiet Company released Songs for Staying In, a 6 song EP, produced by Quiet Company and recorded by bass player Matt Parmenter in his apartment studio, Ice Cream Factory Studios.
Songs from Everyone You Love... and "Songs For Staying In" have been featured heavily on television programs such as My Generation, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Real World, and Married To Rock. Quiet Company also had a walk on role on ABC's My Generation, but the show was, unfortunately, cancelled before their episode was aired.
The song "How Do You Do It?" from Songs for Staying In was added to rotation on 3 of Austin, TX's rock radio stations, KGSR, KUT, and KROX. Quiet Company is the first unsigned local band to ever achieve rotation on all three.
In January 2011, Quiet Company were nominated for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards under the Pop/Rock Song category for "It’s Better To Spend Money Like There’s No Tomorrow Than Spend Tonight Like There’s No Money".
Quiet Company released their third full length album, We Are All Where We Belong, on October 4, 2011.
Often joined by:
Austin, Texas
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, led by former Eisley
Eisley
Eisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings and their cousin , all of whom were born and live in Texas. Although the band's name translates to ice island in several Germanic languages, it was actually selected by the bandmates because of its link to the Star Wars saga...
contributor Taylor Muse. Their first album, Shine Honesty
Shine Honesty
Shine Honesty is the first studio album by the band Quiet Company released on March 20, 2006 by Northern Records of Los Angeles California. The album is a piano rock driven effort recorded in majority by frontman Taylor Muse....
, was released on March 23, 2006 by Northern Records
Northern Records
Northern Records is an independent record label located in California. It was founded in 1999. It is currently being distributed in the United States and Canada by RED Distribution .-CD releases:-Digital releases:...
and is distributed in the United States and Canada by RED Distribution
RED Distribution
RED - An Artist Development Company is a Sony Music Entertainment-owned sales and marketing division that handles releases for over sixty independent record labels....
(Sony BMG).
Biography
Muse was on the leading lines of the East TexasEast Texas
East Texas is a distinct geographic and ecological area in the U.S. state of Texas.According to the Handbook of Texas, the East Texas area "may be separated from the rest of Texas roughly by a line extending from the Red River in north central Lamar County southwestward to east central Limestone...
indie music boom with his bands Uncle Andrew and Neckpunch. He also lended a helping hand to create songs on Eisley
Eisley
Eisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings and their cousin , all of whom were born and live in Texas. Although the band's name translates to ice island in several Germanic languages, it was actually selected by the bandmates because of its link to the Star Wars saga...
's debut for Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
, as well as giving them their first name, Moss Eisley. He parted ways from the family formed group after playing bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
in live shows in order to focus on other projects. Taylor played drums and guitar in early incarnations of The Lonely Hearts
The Lonely Hearts
The Lonely Hearts are an Americana/rock band from Nashville, Tennessee.-Biography:The Lonely Hearts were formed in 2003 in Nashville, TN by brothers Will and Josiah Holland. They have released one full length album, Paper Tapes.-History:...
(a.k.a. Holland, a.k.a. Somerset) but opted not to make the trek away from East Texas to join them in Nashville, TN, where they are based to this day. He recorded several tracks under the moniker Quiet Company that he released independently while playing with his band The Connotations. He also lent the track, Music For The Masses (When The Masses Have Mullets) to Jeff Cloud
Jeff Cloud
Jeff Cloud is a former bass guitar player for rock band Starflyer 59. He joined the band after the album Americana had been recorded, and remained a member until after the recording of the album I Am the Portuguese Blues. From 1996 until 2002, Cloud was member of the electropop/synth pop group...
's label Velvet Blue's Scene But Not Herd - Unsigned Band Compilation #3.
Thomas Blank joined Quiet Company in the winter of 2005 after answering a Craig's List ad. His audition took place in Muse's walk-in closet, where Muse's keyboard was kept.
Jeff Weathers joined the band in the summer of 2008 after the breakup of Ethan Durelle, his band for the previous 8 years. Quiet Company and Ethan Durelle had shared the stage many times and it was there that Weathers caught the collective eye of Muse and Blank. He was persuaded to join the band by the promise that no one in Quiet Company would ever judge him for his shockingly deviant terrarium architecture.
Matt Parmenter joined Quiet Company in the Winter of 2008 after answering yet another Craig's List ad. His first show with the band was a Halloween show at Club Dada in Dallas where the band played all Pixies covers. He either found or lost faith in god that night, no one is sure which.
Shine Honesty
Several of the tracks on Quiet Company's debut album, Shine HonestyShine Honesty
Shine Honesty is the first studio album by the band Quiet Company released on March 20, 2006 by Northern Records of Los Angeles California. The album is a piano rock driven effort recorded in majority by frontman Taylor Muse....
, were arranged and composed while Muse was fronting The Connotations. After some soul searching, The Connotations decided to part ways after their only official release, Trouble by The Truckloads from Mono Vs Stereo
Mono Vs Stereo
Mono Vs Stereo is an independent record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was founded in 2003 as an imprint label of Gotee Records. While Gotee signs mostly rap, hip-hop, and pop-rock artists, MVS leaned more towards indie music.-2003–2006:...
's The Revolution Will Begin In The Blink Of An Eye compilation. Muse took a handful of the songs that they had demoed and recorded Shine Honesty with Alex Bhore in May 2005. With the record completed, Muse began auditioning band mates to play his newly forged tunes.
Muse self-packaged CD-R copies of the new album with black & white covers and began to pass them around amongst friends and sold them at shows in Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
. Northern Records
Northern Records
Northern Records is an independent record label located in California. It was founded in 1999. It is currently being distributed in the United States and Canada by RED Distribution .-CD releases:-Digital releases:...
heard the unmastered version and invited Taylor Muse and Quiet Company to find a home with them. Andy Prickett lended his own brand of expertise in the mixing and mastering of the album and on March 23, 2006, Northern Records released Shine Honesty.
In October 2007 they completed their first music video for the song "Fashionabel", from Shine Honesty. The video was shot in Nashville, TN by New Valiant Productions and directed by American film maker Cameron McCasland
Cameron McCasland
Cameron McCasland is a Regional Emmy Nominated American film maker.- Early life :McCasland was raised in Edgewood, Texas....
. The video was released on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
on October 30, 2007. The video was picked up by MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
Canada and is currently playing in rotation and on demand.
Recent Activity
Quiet Company recorded "Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis. Frank Sinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics, which has become more common than the original. The song was written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane...
" for the 2007 release of Peace on Earth: A Holiday Album. The album was made available for download directly from the web. All proceeds from sales went to the Toys for Tots
Toys for Tots
Toys for Tots is a program run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve which donates toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas. The program was founded in 1947 by reservist Major William L...
charity.
In 2009, they released a new album called Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon produced by Charlie Vela, and Louie Lino, of Nada Surf fame. In its first month of release, the record saw , roughly, twice as many sales as Shine Honesty had in its first year and a half and was met with critical acclaim.
The band lent their song "On Modern Men" to local charity organization "Music For The City" for their first compilation, for which the profits went to Safeplace.
Quiet Company released a homemade, stop-motion animation video for the song "It's Better To Spend Money Like There's No Tomorrow, Than Spend Tonight Like There's No Money," which is available online and on ME Television.
They also partnerned with local filmmaker, Justin Kirchhoff, to make a video for "On Modern Men," which is also available online and on ME Television.
In 2010, Quiet Company released Songs for Staying In, a 6 song EP, produced by Quiet Company and recorded by bass player Matt Parmenter in his apartment studio, Ice Cream Factory Studios.
Songs from Everyone You Love... and "Songs For Staying In" have been featured heavily on television programs such as My Generation, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Real World, and Married To Rock. Quiet Company also had a walk on role on ABC's My Generation, but the show was, unfortunately, cancelled before their episode was aired.
The song "How Do You Do It?" from Songs for Staying In was added to rotation on 3 of Austin, TX's rock radio stations, KGSR, KUT, and KROX. Quiet Company is the first unsigned local band to ever achieve rotation on all three.
In January 2011, Quiet Company were nominated for The 10th Annual Independent Music Awards under the Pop/Rock Song category for "It’s Better To Spend Money Like There’s No Tomorrow Than Spend Tonight Like There’s No Money".
Quiet Company released their third full length album, We Are All Where We Belong, on October 4, 2011.
Touring
Quiet Company has done several national tours but plays predominantly in and around their home state, Texas. They have played with many notable acts, such as: The Toadies, Bob Schneider, Rooney, Evan Dando, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Eisley, Alpha Rev, Old 97's, and Dear & the Headlights.Albums
- Shine HonestyShine HonestyShine Honesty is the first studio album by the band Quiet Company released on March 20, 2006 by Northern Records of Los Angeles California. The album is a piano rock driven effort recorded in majority by frontman Taylor Muse....
– March 23, 2006 - Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Soon – March 10, 2009
- Songs for Staying In – May 11, 2010
- We Are All Where We Belong – October 4, 2011
Compilations
- Scene But Not Herd - Unsigned Band Compilation #3 – 2001
- Peace on Earth: A Holiday Album – 2007
- Music For The City, Vol. 1 - 2009
Music Videos
- "Fashionabel" (2007) (Directed By Cameron McCaslandCameron McCaslandCameron McCasland is a Regional Emmy Nominated American film maker.- Early life :McCasland was raised in Edgewood, Texas....
) - "On Modern Men" (2010) (Directed by Justin Kirchhoff)
Members
- Taylor Muse - singing, acoustic & electric guitars, baritone guitar, piano, drums, glockenspiel, harmonica, synthesizers, electric piano, trumpet, banjo, percussion, & organ.
- Thomas Blank - acoustic & electric guitars, electric piano, singing, piano, glockenspiel, melodica, & organ.
- Matthew Parmenter - bass, singing, piano, banjo, percussion, stylophone, & organ.
- Jeff Weathers - drums & percussion.
Often joined by:
- Cody Ackors - trombone, singing, bass, & electric guitar.
- Justin Washington - trumpet, singing, & ukelele.
- Leah Muse - singing, & wife of Taylor.
- Betsy Aune - singing, & wife of Thomas.
- Paul Osbon - singing, & manager of Quiet Company.
Former members
- Alex Bhore (record)
- Jesse Garcia (drums)
- Tim Robbins (drums)
- Michael Delaney (drums)
See also
- EisleyEisleyEisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings and their cousin , all of whom were born and live in Texas. Although the band's name translates to ice island in several Germanic languages, it was actually selected by the bandmates because of its link to the Star Wars saga...
- The Lonely HeartsThe Lonely HeartsThe Lonely Hearts are an Americana/rock band from Nashville, Tennessee.-Biography:The Lonely Hearts were formed in 2003 in Nashville, TN by brothers Will and Josiah Holland. They have released one full length album, Paper Tapes.-History:...
- Northern RecordsNorthern RecordsNorthern Records is an independent record label located in California. It was founded in 1999. It is currently being distributed in the United States and Canada by RED Distribution .-CD releases:-Digital releases:...
- Velvet Blue
- Mono Vs StereoMono Vs StereoMono Vs Stereo is an independent record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was founded in 2003 as an imprint label of Gotee Records. While Gotee signs mostly rap, hip-hop, and pop-rock artists, MVS leaned more towards indie music.-2003–2006:...
External links
- Quiet Company official myspace page
- Quiet Company official website
- Northern Records Bio Page
- Quiet Company Music Video For Fashionable
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