No Lindsay

Review -
This quick sampler EP showcases a talented quartet from Williamsburg,
Brooklyn’s underground indie rock scene known as No Lindsay. They’ve already appeared on Warped Tour and Taste of Chaos and have filled audiences and A&R groupies with a slew of possibilities. Each song is arranged masterfully by a band
that seems almost too perfect. Indeed they seem like they could be poised for
super-stardom so quickly that it surely can’t be a real band but one that was
handpicked for Platinum sales by some cabal of mischievous music industry insiders rather than a rough group of young adults who decided that the music world wouldn’t be better off unless they joined it. Well congratulations No Lindsay, you guys can sing, write incredibly catchy pop rock songs, and make the word “alternative” not sound so dirty. - Smother.net

No Lindsay will be performing at this year's NEMO Music Festival, one of North America's premier music industry events. NEMO is held September 28-30. Show date TBA

PAST NEMO SHOWCASE ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Gavin DeGraw, Keane, Dresden Dolls, Los Lonely Boys, The Black Keys, Aqualung, Godsmack, John Butler Trio, Further Seems Forever, The Perceptionists (featuring Mr. Lif and Acrobatix), Jon Randall, Tristan Prettyman, Ashlee Simpson, Marc Broussard, Electric Six, The Trews, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, The Slip, Hayes Carll, Zox, Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers, Nine Black Alps, Black Mountain, Superdrag, Pilot To Gunner, Diamond Nights, The Posies, The Perishers, Dirty On Purpose, Doug Gillard, Love As Laughter
- NEMO Boston

GLAMOUR MAGAZINE
Paris, France

No Lindsay is still raising suspicion as an Anti-Lindsay Lohan band.
Check out this excerpt from the famous Glamour Magazine in France.

Glamour Magazine
Page 274
Beyonce' is on the cover

"Wanted"

"Poor Lindsay Lohan is so unappreciated that to hate her is cool. A
US rock band has even had the idea of calling themselves No
Lindsay....... It's already the buzz...."


Wanted

La pauvre Lindsay Lohan est si peu apprŽciŽe que la dŽtester est devenu une preuve de coolitude. Un groupe de rock US a m?me eu l'idŽe de se nommer No Lindsay, et de faire sa pub en collant ces stickers dans les rues de New York. C'est dŽjˆ la buzz.
- GLAMOUR magaine

"No Lindsay's music is a cut above 99% that's out there right now."

...

"No Lindsay is singled out as the performers that impressed Billboard the most." - Jim Bessman

ÒNo LindsayÕs radio ready sound situates itself at the
intersection between innocence and experience, importing innovation to the time-tested rock and roll formula only where it needed improvement.Ó
- Jamie Rattner

Sounds Like

"Start with lush, thick, harmonically-dense brit pop, sonic, resonant indie pop, spacious rock with giant swirls and chords bleeding into other chords, mouth-watering, yummy washes of sound, tasteful influences such as Coldplay, U2, Radiohead and Sunnyday Real Estate and you have the beginnings of No Lindsay. A case in point for the whole being greater than the sum of the parts, there is an extra bit of magic that is cast over the listener- some intangible, indiscernible enchantment that strikes to the bone and penetrates the clutter of everyday life, bewitching every set of ears that come into contact with No Lindsay for evermore. Not without drive, grind, edge and coarseness when appropriate, this album is certain to steal your heart and if applicable, most likely your girlfriend as well."
- CD Baby Music Editor Tamara Turner

From: New York Post
August 20, 2006 Edition

HOT LIST

WHAT WE'RE OBSESSED WITH THIS WEEK

By MAXINE SHEN and RAAKHEE MIRCHANDANI

1 The 'Beach' is back
Gearing up to bring us more gossip page fodder, MTV's "Laguna Beach" is back for a third season. This time, brunettes rule and host Tessa is (gasp!) unpopular. Welcome to the O.C., loser!

2 No-Lindsay indie
Stickers posted around SoHo declaring a "Lindsay-free area" got us excited about a grassroots effort to ban La Lohan. Turns out they're actually awesome local rockers No Lindsay, playing Aug. 27 at The Tank on Church Street.
- New York Post

Expressing the music from inside

By DAVE MADELONI
Special to the Reformer

PITTSFIELD

When Brooklyn's No Lindsay takes the Berkshire Music Hall stage tomorrow night, most everyone there will be seeing them for the first time.

It probably won't be the last.

The quartet has garnered some prestigious awards -- the Billboard Music Magazine international songwriting competition in Alternative Music, a Coca-Cola New Music Award, and runner-up in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition. They've packed CBGB and gigged in exotic locales, such as Tulsa, Ok. Lead singer and songwriter Rob Ingersoll recently jammed until 6 a.m. in a New York basement with rock bad-boy Ryan Adams.

And they haven't even released their first full-length CD.

Damon Fowler of SMI Music group chose No Lindsay to headline the first in his series of Emerging Artists Showcases in The Berkshires, along with Binaural from North Adams, Ragged Company from Savoy, and Pittsfield's Channel.

"It's hard to describe this rock," said Ingersoll in an e-mail exchange. "Some people call the music EMO. I am more of a crooner than a screamer at heart though. And there are hints of U2 and Radiohead."

Ingersoll also cites a broad range of inspirations.

"As a singer, I'm really inspired by Jeremy Enigk from Sunny Day Real Estate and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a great Sufi singer from Pakistan. There is something mystical and sacred about their style.

"Musically, I am inspired by Mozart and The Beatles because I truly believe they were aliens. Lyrically, Morrissey and Leonard Cohen inspire me."

Perhaps Ingersoll's greatest influence was familial.

"My father is a composer and played a ton of classical music around me at all times when I was a child. If it weren't for those influences," Ingersoll said, "my melodies would be stiff. Classical music moves to the rhythm of life."

It didn't take long for young Rob to find creative expression.

"Since I was in kindergarten, I have been writing and performing music. It just came natural. I was just compelled to do it. It was therapy for me being an only child. I didn't learn any theory. I was stubborn. I used to fake out my piano teacher and not really read any of the notes. I firmly believe that too much theory stifles honest writing. "

When needed, Ingersoll will mine those early recordings for bits of innocence and passion that eventually find their way into his songs for No Lindsay.

"Most of my best songwriting comes from looking back at cassette tapes from when I was in elementary school," he said. "I learn a lot from listening to all these song ideas when I was just fooling around and making songs for no reason at all. That is where all the raw material comes from.

"I'm always struggling to get past the new, critical voice and ego that we develop over time. That is where an artist is lost and a businessman is formed. I'm always chasing that immature brat inside of me that plays music to vent emotions."

Eventually Ingersoll discovered a crew of simpatico musicians that could help shape his sound.

"No Lindsay came together after I recorded some of my tunes with Dave Holmes, a guitarist from my area of Brooklyn."

"Dave Holmes, who also plays in a dub band called Dub Trio, is a versatile guitarist who has one of those rare, unique and identifiable guitar voices. You just know you are listening to Dave when you hear him play guitar.

"I then met Mark Rajakovic [drums], Scott Zant [bass] and newest Guitarist Toshi Kubota [guitars]. These amazing musicians showed me how to take my sound and layer it with space, texture and of course, noise."

In No Lindsay's first foray into the Berkshires, Inigersoll expects audiences will "see and hear something honest and real.

"We want to express music that is actually coming from inside of you," he said. "And, of course, some kick-ass edgy rock from the streets of Brooklyn!"

Ticket information is available through the Berkshire Music Hall box office at 499-5446.





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