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Stuyvesant
Biography
JERSEY CRUNCH-POP
STUYVESANT is the reincarnation of two New Jersey rock bands that were born in the early 90s. Footstone and Friends, Romans, Countrymen shared many a stage and a lust for the “have a good time, all the time” ethos.
After a sabbatical deep in the heart of Texas, Ralph Malanga, the voice of Footstone, returned to the Garden State with an itch for rock. He approached FRC singer Sean Adams and bassist Brian Musikoff and pitched his vision – kind of like a vocal version of dueling banjos. With Marshalls cranked, the trio began crafting up-tempo, melodic songs with an edge. After an exhaustive search, Hoboken, NJ’s cool jazz cat Pete Martinez (ex-Coffin Daggers) joined the group on drums, adding a higher level of proficiency and sophistication.
With the players in place it was time for a name. Since the band rehearses in the oldest settled area of the State, it seemed fitting to choose a moniker that paid homage to their northeastern Jersey roots. Not far from the band’s rehearsal studio in Jersey City’s Journal Square section is the liquor store where Sean worked as a teenager, called Stuyvesant Liquors. Just a few blocks from there is a status of Peter Stuyvesant (Peg Leg Pete), an early Governor of New Amsterdam and New Bergen (present-day Lower Manhattan and the surrounding NJ territory). Peg Leg Pete was a stern fellow, a law an order man who lost his lower appendage to a cannonball. We’ll probably never know if he would approve of boisterous rock and roll, but on February 5, 1663, Peter Stuyvesant did grant the first charter for a brewery in America – it was in Hoboken, NJ. That being the case, Stuyvesant (the band) thinks Stuyvesant (the man) would be down for a good time.
In late 2005 Stuyvesant released their debut, Quit More Often, on Manual Phono. This EP brought them accolades from critics and comparisons to some of their influences, including Soul Asylum and The Lemonheads.
In April 2008 the band released its first full-length CD, Linden Calling, a 14-song juggernaut of pop goodness and rock crunchiness, with a hint of anger, desperation and self-loathing.
Newly signed to well-loved indie Dromedary Records, the band is poised to release Jihad Me At Hello, a digital EP of classic pop and rarities, which will be offered for free download as an intro to the band. The band is currently in the studio recording the followup, to be released by Dromedary in the fall.
Discography
Latest News
Stuyvesant - "Jihad Me At Hello"
Mon Aug 9, 10:43 PMThe new EP from Stuyvesant, Jihad Me At Hello, is now available for FREE. And for you audiophiles, you can get it in every format under the sun. FREE.
To get it, click this link and give us your email address; the EP is all yours!
Announcing: Jihad Me At Hello
Tue Jun 29, 10:50 PMWe love this band. We love this band so much that we want you to know about them. And so we’re pleased to announce the imminent release of Jihad Me At Hello, a digital EP that we’ll be making available to you for FREE download.
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Mommyheads
Flying Suit
Flying Suit is considered by many to be one of the greatest indie records of the 90s. Beautifully remastered by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes, Phish, Stuyvesant), the fidelity of this reissue is magnificent – and the record contains three bonus tracks that were not found on the original. The tracks – “Box,” “Over,” and “Day Job,” were recorded during the same era, and fit wonderfully in this collection.
And now, we’ve added a FREE concert video to the download! That’s right, when you download Flying Suit from this website, you get the complete, remastered Flying Suit, plus the three bonus tracks, and a DVD-quality concert video of the band performing “Worm” this past May at the Cave, in Sundyberg, Sweden!
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen
I Am Spartacus.
Burly pop-core, Jersey City style, for your listening pleasure. After a long wait, this NJ indie treasure finally enjoys wide distribution – pick it up now!
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cuppa joe
Nurture
Classic Cuppa tunes like “Bottlerocket,” “French Toast,” and “Broken Arms.” A fresh recording of “Sitting Limit.” Previously unreleased tracks like “Backseat Window,” and a revisit of “Meanings,” the band’s first indie release from the long out-of-print 1992 Dromedary compilation Nothing Smells Quite Like Elizabeth. All for ten bucks.
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Out this October, Finest Specimens is a sort of “best of the Mommyheads” collection, containing 21 tracks that span the band’s entire career, right through 2010. In addition to classic Mommyheads tracks, Finest Specimens contains four previously unreleased live tracks, and a brand new Mommyheads song, the beautiful and haunting ballad “When The Sun Breaks.”
