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Apside
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Genre: Rock
City: San Francisco, CA
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"Apside is my favorite new band". -Sylvia Massy, producer (Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Tool, Johnny Cash, System of a Down)- "Apside, a great San Francisco up and coming band to watch for. I'm sold now. I am a fan after seeing them live". -Aaron Axelson, music director of Live 105 (biggest radio station in northern California) In April 2005 a popular radio station in San Paolo, Brazil 2000 gets hold of Apside's EP and starts playing the single "Collide" on their alternative rock weekly show. The band is unaware of the magnitude of the public responce until they get an email inviting them to Brazil to tour the country. Apside jumps on a plane and plays the San Paolo Campari Festival (which also lands them a live appearance on MTV and many other brazilian networks) along with punk heroes MC5, The Kills, CSS, Dungen and other local acts then continues to five more cities to headline a tour with brazilian band B-Driver. Apside: an amalgamation of pop, beautiful dirty guitars and intense harmonics. The band members are insanely driven to create music which carries them beyond temporary trends................................................. Apside begins in 2004 when Paolo and Pietro meet in San Francisco after having lived most of their lives in different countries in Europe. Their desire to write songs that are melodic, abrasive, catchy and memorable inspires them to meet other likeminded musicians whom they find in brazilian native Bruno Romani and american drummer Tina Fagnani. Zero Magazine: "Apside features dark powerful European driven-guitars. In the way Europeans blast down the Autobahn, Giordano and Straccia guitar playing blast through the tracks while shifting a telecaster above the grind of the melodies. In September 2006 Apside's song "Someday" started being featured on a new Fox network TV show. In July 2007, Apside made it to the top 5 bands for the Live 105 BFD Local Band Contest (a competition entered by hundreds of bands) to open for Interpol, Bloc Party, Social Distortion, Kaiser Chiefs and more. Consequently, Apside has started getting airplay on Live 105, Alice Radio and other Bay Area radio stations. Since then Apside has caught the attention of super producer Sylvia Massy and after some pre-production work, the band is currently recording with her their first full-lenght album, scheduled to be released in February 2008.Profile created on November 19, 2007