Chamber Band

With unchecked charisma and a near-mythical dedication to pouring every last ounce of themselves into their performances, Brooklyn mainstays Chamber Band have ascended to indie rock notoriety in a scene already notorious for being pretty far out there. 

Gorgeous guy-girl harmonies ascend over spirited beats and bass, then descend into agonized groans for love won and lost, all with enough magical underpinnings and references to geek arcana that you'll be knowingly nudging your dance partner between tunes. The perfect scene for music nerds (and nerd nerds) who, above all, just want to dance.

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History Check: 20. (whoa)

Every party has a starter town. Chamber Band's could easily be a number of places: Sarah Lawrence College, where three of its members first met and collaborated as undergraduates; the three-story art gallery slash artist residency in Greenpoint, Brooklyn where the first few beta versions of songs squeaked out onstage; or, perhaps the subterranean depths of Chinatown, where the band rehearsed (or played Settlers) on the regular, before being unceremoniously ejected by their landlord for a litany of noise complaints from the tenants above.

The adventure hook was simple enough: slam coffee, make songs. Make good songs. Nerd rock, a sonic Venn diagram that included acts as diverse as Kirby Krackle and Harry and the Potters, was entering its first renaissance, and the band was happy to inject themselves into that genre. With the 2013 debut of Deities, eleven sugary acoustic tunes about heartbreak, lovingly warped through the lens of Dungeons & Dragons, heads turned, and tilted. 

In 2014, with a small army suddenly singing their praises, the band debuted two new songs during a take-no-prisoners set on The Chris Gethard Show, then embarked on an ambitious national tour, the Twenty Sided Tour, hitting hobby shops, game stores, and small clubs on both coasts.  It was on this tour that the band opened for Nerdcore originators MC Frontalot, MC Lars, and Schaffer the Darklord, and also made their GenCon debut, sharing the same stage as nerd rock royalty The Doubleclicks and Sarah Donner.

In the fall of 2015, the band released and toured to support their sophomore album, Careers. The album, which took place in the world of the Hunger Games trilogy of novels, was a critical success. "One Headlight", a re-imagining of a song by The Wallflowers, was released on OxFam International's Summer Playlist.

2016 was the beginning of a new chapter for the band. They recorded their third album, Governor's Square, in southern California -- a welcome change of scenery for a decidedly east coast act. The band describes this upcoming album as a "massive departure from the tone of their first two albums, embracing a dreamy, acoustic sound that draws on acts like Fleet Foxes and Cat Stevens," while still staying true to the hooky, yet complex, musicality they're known and loved for.

Governor's Square is set to be released nationwide in February of 2017.