Us, Today
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2010 | SELF
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“(Us, Today) create original tunes that are equally experimental and accessible at the same time, something few acts can successfully pull off. This is no surprise, however, knowing the bands’ considerable combined years of music education. The bottom line is that they know what they are doing, and they do it well. Us, Today (guitar, drums, vibes) start out with Long Since Forgotten, a tune that starts out rather laid back, but grows steadily with determined bursts over its 6-minute duration. What follows is Violent Proclivity, which features subtle, subdued vibes and guitar that really highlight some intense drum work.” - John Praw Kruse (Mine All Mine Records review of the 2013 Us, Today/Lovely Socialite split ep) - Mine All Mine Records
I'm also totally stoked to check out a band I've recently engineered and produced an album for (and played with a little): Us, Today. They are an experimental-jazz-rock-fusion trio (that's a lot of dashes) that have been coming on the scene pretty quickly and I'm excited to see how they perform on a big stage like MidPoint. - Metromix Cincinnati
Cincinnati has become a hotbed of jazzy experimental minimalism and Us, Today is a fascinating example of that incredible ethic in full bloom. The trio utilizes a relatively unconventional array of guitar, vibraphone, and drums and projects a heady blend of Jazz, Rock, Electronica and spartan Ambient elements through their uniquely refractional prism of improvisation and sense of musical adventure. Soothing yet compelling, structured yet loose, liltingly melodic yet noisily dissonant, Us, Today expands and redirects the parameters of experimental Jazz. - Brian Baker
- Citybeat
Cincinnati has become a hotbed of jazzy experimental minimalism and Us, Today is a fascinating example of that incredible ethic in full bloom. The trio utilizes a relatively unconventional array of guitar, vibraphone, and drums and projects a heady blend of Jazz, Rock, Electronica and spartan Ambient elements through their uniquely refractional prism of improvisation and sense of musical adventure. Soothing yet compelling, structured yet loose, liltingly melodic yet noisily dissonant, Us, Today expands and redirects the parameters of experimental Jazz. - Brian Baker
- Citybeat
Over the past six years, the evolution of Us, Today as a force in the Cincinnati scene has been breathtaking. Its first two seld-recorded albums, 2011's RH Sessions and 2012's Beneath the Floorboards, hinted at the band's potential, but with 2015's TENENEMIES, the trio - vibraphonist Kristin Agee, guitarist Joel Griggs, and drummer Jeff Mellott - eschewed its improv roots and carefully composed and arranged the songs, allowing the members' Jazz and Classical training to meld their wide-ranging musical influences into a cohesive and thrilling unit. If you're wondering how that went, the press has been loving TENENEMIES and the band won this year's Indie/Alternative award at the Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. So, Pretty Good. - Citybeat Magazine
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Still working on that hot first release.
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Us, Today is a trio (drums, guitar, vibraphone/keyboard) based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Their style is best described as an avant-garde blend of instrumental rock, post-rock, minimalism, and electronic music, with a heavy emphasis on experimentation.
The band has released 3 albums to date. "RH Sessions" (2011), "Beneath the Floorboards" (2012), and most recently "T E N E N E M I E S", released in March of 2015. Us, Today's first two albums are very experimental in style, relying heavily on minimalism and improvisation. "T E N E N E M I E S" is a new direction for the band. Louder, heavier, and more melodically driven, and more through composed than improvisational.Band Members
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