Left and Right
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States | SELF
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"...the jangly, energetic and likeable indie-rock band made up 100% of UTS Bus Drivers. I’ll admit I sort of took that band for granted for a while, but every time I’ve seen them lately I’ve been really impressed. They’re good!" - Nailgun Media
...their song “Teenage Wasteland” immediately caught my attention. It’s a little bit like older Abe Vigoda crossed with Eternal Summers. Simple melodies and choruses, with big guitar parts and some sweet guitar solos. It’s a sick song. I have no idea what they’ll be like live, but I’m excited to find out. - New York Rockmarket
Left & Right has four dudes who have documented the special secret sauce and the ingredients are in their album Miss Virginia. The music comes highly recommended and we give it four hot southern girl’s drunk on PBR’s which is our way of saying — thumbs up. - Review Stalker
Left and Right, one of the most exciting and hard-hitting new bands to hit the local scene this year. When not sneaking in killer sets at The Box and Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, the four-piece is recording a debut full-length, with contributions from masterminds Phil Dameron and Daniel Merchant, which is sure to be the best thing to come out of UVA's UTS bus system - C-Ville: Charlottesville Arts and News
ith an objective look at their music, it really is great stuff. Their debut, These Were Our Homes, pulls off the dual-singer songwriter thing pretty well, in a very Boecker/Krug-ian way, in that their voices/songwriting can sound totally at ends sometimes, but the feeling between each song is the same. They are definitely influenced by “indie-rock,” and though I despise that term/genre, it actually makes sense for this band. Left and Right bonds well with that fine template that “indie-rock” acts from the ’90s have left us (such as Pavement, Built to Spill, Smog). However, they use it for all that is good, and not for evil like, say, any of the derivative nu-Pitchfork bands like Cymbals Eat Guitars or something. - nailgun media
Discography
These Were Our Homes - Self-Released
Miss Virginia - S/R at leftandright.bandcamp.com
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Bio
Left & Right is a band made up of four University of Virginia bus drivers (and students/former students) who have been playing shows for over two years now and are looking to start playing shows further away from their hometown. They've been an active member in the Charlottesville music scene since their inception, playing gigs at the Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, The Garage, Boylan Heights, The Box, and the occasional house show, and played their first out of state show at the New York Rock Market's two year anniversary bash held at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn. We recently had the #1 requested single for the week of April 25th on Graffiti Radio in Wilmington, DE.
We're currently getting ready to sign a non-exclusive record deal with Damon Records based in Norfolk, VA. The songs four our third album have just finished being written and arranged.
Listen in and see if you like us over at leftandright.bandcamp.com
We've played gigs with: Givers, Andrew Cedermark, White Laces, Atlas, Miniboone, Royal Forrest, PC Worship, Hallelujah the Hills, and The Black.
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