Twinemen is an alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band

Band (music)

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 based in Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, USA

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 created by former members of the bands Morphine

Morphine (band)

Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989. They disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack....

 and Face to Face

Face to Face (new wave band)

Face to Face was a new wave Boston, Massachusetts quintet.-Formation:Guitarist Stuart Kimball formed the band in New Hampshire during the late '70s with a close group of friends...

. The group includes Dana Colley

Dana Colley

Dana Colley is an American musician, best known as the baritone and tenor saxophonist in the alternative rock band Morphine.-with Three Colors :...

 (saxophone / vocals), Billy Conway (percussion / vocals / sometimes acoustic guitar), and Laurie Sargent (lead singer / lead guitar). Various bass players, including former Face to Face guitarist Stuart Kimball, also perform with the band on the road and in the studio. Twinemen's music includes a mix of jazz, blues, acid rock, and lounge.

Twinemen chose their name as an homage

Homage

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 to Morphine's late leader Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...

 and his The Twinemen comic series. The Twinemen depicted three anthropomorphic

Anthropomorphism

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 balls of twine who play together in a band. Twinemen currently records in their Cambridge-based Hi-n-Dry

Hi-n-Dry

Hi-n-Dry is a Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA-based independent record label and recording studio. Founded by the late Morphine singer and bassist Mark Sandman, the studio and label are currently managed by former Morphine bandmates Dana Colley and Billy Conway along with Laurie Sargent and Andrew...

 Studios.

Studio albums

1. Twinemen (July 9, 2002)
2. Sideshow (September 21, 2004)
3. Twinetime (August 21, 2007)

Live albums

All live albums released through the Kufala Recordings label.

• Madison, WI 02/01/2003
• Chicago, IL 02/02/2003
• Cambridge, MA 10/23/2003
• Denver, CO 09/25/2003
• San Francisco, CA 10/01/2003
• Los Angeles, CA 10/02/2003