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About|the American indie rock band|the Scottish alternative dance|indie dance band|The Apples (group)Use mdy dates|date=September 2010Infobox musical artist| name = The Apples in Stereo| image = Apples-in-Stereo-Primavera-Festival-(edit).jpg| caption = The group performs at the Primavera Sound Festival|Primavera Festival in Barcelona, Spain in June 2007| background = group_or_band| origin = Denver , Colorado | genre = Indie pop , indie rock , neo-psychedelia , garage rock , power pop | years_active = 1992–present| label = Elephant 6 , SpinART Records|SpinART , Simian Records|Simian | associated_acts =| website = URL|applesinstereo.com| current_members = Robert Schneider
John Hill (musician)|John Hill
Eric Allen (musician)|Eric Allen
Bill Doss
John Dufilho
John Ferguson (musician)|John Ferguson | past_members = Hilarie Sidney
Chris McDuffie
Jim McIntyre (musician)|Jim McIntyre
Chris Parfitt
The Apples in Stereo , styled The Apples in stereo , is an American indie rock band associated with The The Elephant 6 Recording Company|Elephant Six Collective , a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control . The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Schneider , who writes the majority of the band's music and lyrics. Currently, The Apples in Stereo also includes longstanding members John Hill (musician)|John Hill (rhythm guitar) and Eric Allen (musician)|Eric Allen (bass), as well as new members Bill Doss (keyboards), John Dufilho (drums) and John Ferguson (musician)|John Ferguson (keyboards). The band's sound draws strong comparisons to the psychedelic rock of The Beatles and The Beach Boys during the 1960s.

The band is well known for their appearance in a The Powerpuff Girls|Powerpuff Girls -esque music video performing the song " Let's Go& #33; (The Apples in Stereo EP)|Signal In The Sky (Let's Go) ". It aired immediately after the show's season 4's seventh episode "Superfriends".cite news |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=KNW7FJwWq9M |title=The Apples In Stereo - Signal In The Sky (Let's Go)

Band history


1991–1993: The Apples


In late 1991, Robert Schneider met Jim McIntyre (musician)|Jim McIntyre on a commuter bus in Denver, Colorado .cite web|url= http://www.hiponline.com/artist/music/a/apples_in_stereo/index.php5 |title=Apples in Stereo – Biography |accessdate=2007-06-29 |author=Robert Schneider |year= |month= |work= |publisher=Hip Online Schneider had recently moved to Colorado from Ruston, Louisiana , and often initiated conversations with McIntyre. When Schneider asked McIntyre what his music interests were, McIntyre named his favorite band: The Beach Boys — a band Schneider was particularly fond of. Realizing that they shared many musical interests, McIntyre introduced Schneider to Hilarie Sidney . McIntyre already had a band called Von Hemmling in which McIntyre played bass and Sidney played drums. With Schneider, they discussed the idea of starting a band and perhaps a recording label. Schneider later met Chris Parfitt , who was also already in a band at the time. Schneider and Parfitt also became friends, however, and toyed with the idea of having a rock band similar to The Velvet Underground or Black Sabbath , with production qualities similar to that of The Beach Boys.

Schneider then spent two weeks in Athens, Georgia recording music and spending time with his childhood friends Will Cullen Hart , Bill Doss and Jeff Mangum . He discussed the idea of starting a record label with them (which soon became The Elephant 6 Recording Company ). It was also at this time that the name " The Apples " came about, inspired by the Pink Floyd song " Apples and Oranges (song)|Apples and Oranges ".

The earliest incarnation of the band began to form in 1992 upon Schneider's return to Denver, first between Schneider and Parfitt, both of whom played guitar. The two recruited McIntyre and Sidney during the autumn of that year, practicing material through the winter. Their first few live shows took place the following January, many of which were with the band Felt Pilotes . From February to April 1993, the band recorded their debut gramophone record|7" EP , Tidal Wave 7"|Tidal Wave , and released it in June as the first record ever to bear the Elephant 6 logo.

1994–1995: Hypnotic Suggestion and Fun Trick Noisemaker


Several conflicts would lead Parfitt to leave the band in early 1994.cite web|url= http://opticalatlas.com/? page_id=91 |title=Optical Atlas – 6 Questions with Chris Parfitt of Vince Mole and His Calcium Orchestra |publisher=Opticalatlas.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-23 John Hill (musician)|John Hill , a former bandmate of McIntyre's, would join the band as a rhythm guitarist while Schneider began to grow more comfortable playing lead guitar. It was also at this time that Schneider began to take stronger creative control of the band, shifting its sound from its stronger rock qualities to a spacier pop sound. The band started work on a debut full-length album, but it instead became Hypnotic Suggestion EP|Hypnotic Suggestion , a second EP. However, after SpinART Records offered to buy the band an multitrack recording|8-track in return for an album, new plans for an LP arose.

In mid-1994, after Hypnotic Suggestion , McIntyre would be the second to leave the band, due to a number of personal distresses as well as the newfound artistic constraints that arose with Parfitt's departure.cite web|url= http://opticalatlas.com/? page_id=101 |title=Optical Atlas – 6 Questions with Jim McIntyre of Von Hemmling |publisher=Opticalatlas.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-23 Having great difficulty finding a new permanent bassist, the band would rotate a number of frequent contributors, including Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel , Kurt Heasley of The Lilys , Kyle Jones, and Joel Evans, among others. Jim McIntyre would also occasionally guest on bass. This continued to be the makeup of the band as they toured the country in late 1994, recording the first half of their new album in Glendora, California . In early 1995, the band finished the album, Fun Trick Noisemaker , at Kyle Jones's house (the birthplace of Schneider's Pet Sounds Studio ).

Now with a full-length LP to support, the band began touring again. Eric Allen (musician)|Eric Allen , whom the band had previously auditioned as a guitarist after the departure of Chris Parfitt, joined the band as a much welcomed permanent bassist. Late 1995, Schneider relocated Pet Sounds Studio to Jim McIntyre's house.

A significantly different band from the original 1992 four-piece, the official name of the band gradually became "The Apples in Stereo", with the "in stereo" usually somewhat under-emphasized, whether in lower-case or in parenthesis. Schneider described this in an interview: "It's very clearcut, actually: we're The Apples, the music's in stereo. It's not actually the band name – it's a step back from it, a band name once removed. We're The Apples, in stereo. Kind of like a TV show, 'in stereo!' That always seemed to be a really big deal, that it was in stereo."cite web|url= http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/apples.html |title=Apples and Oranges: Robert Schneider interview |accessdate=2007-06-29 |author=Jeff Norman |year= |publisher=Milk McIntyre later remarked, "It's cool the name changed cause the Apples and the Apples in Stereo were really two different entities."

1996–2005: Tone Soul Evolution to Velocity of Sound


Expand section|date=June 2007The band continued touring through 1996, playing in Japan for the first time. Several early recording sessions were held at Pet Sounds for the band's second album, Tone Soul Evolution , but the members were dissatisfied with the quality of the recordings. The majority of the album's songs were re-recorded at Studio .45 in Hartford, Connecticut before the album's release. In 1998, Chris McDuffie joined the band, playing various instruments including organs, synthesizers and assorted percussion. He would leave the band before Velocity of Sound was released in 2002.

Several more albums were released by the band through the years, including the psychedelic "concept EP"cite web|url= http://www.terrascope.co.uk/MyBackPages/APPLES%20IN%20STEREO2.pdf |title=Apples in Stereo: a Terrascopic interview |author=Jud Cost |year= Her Wallpaper Reverie , The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone and Velocity of Sound ; both of the latter of which were progressively aimed at capturing the live sound of the band, which continued to tighten as they continued to perform hundreds of live shows (about 100 a year).cite web|url= http://www.elephant6.com/press/NYtimes.html |title=For Rock Bands, Selling Out Isn't What It Used to Be |author=John Leland|date=2001-03-11|authorlink=John Leland (journalist) In particular, the 2002 album Velocity of Sound rejects most of the psych-pop production sensibilities that would come to be associated with the band, instead featuring stripped-down production and sparse, rock instrumentation.

The band members would also continue to pursue careers in side bands and solo projects, with Schneider producing several albums for Elephant 6 artists. Schneider and drummer Hilarie Sidney were married for a time, with a son Max born in 2000. They have since been divorced.

The band went on a brief hiatus during 2004 as Schneider released the debut album from a new band called Ulysses (band)|Ulysses and Sidney released the debut album from her new band The High Water Marks ; both were released on Eenie Meenie Records . In 2005, The Apples in Stereo contributed "Liza Jane" to the Eenie Meenie compilation, Dimension Mix . It was also around this time that news began to circulate among various websites concerning the band's next studio album.

2006–2008: New Magnetic Wonder and new lineup



In August 2006, longtime drummer Hilarie Sidney officially announced her departure from the band during the band's closing set at the Athens Popfest music festival in Athens, Georgia . Her replacement, John Dufilho , lead singer and principal songwriter of The Deathray Davies , was announced in October 2006.cite web|url= http://www.opticalatlas.com/2006/10/apples-in-stereo-announce-new-drummer.html |title=Optical Atlas – Apples in Stereo Announce New Drummer |publisher=Opticalatlas.com |date=2006-10-30 |accessdate=2012-02-23 2006 touring member Bill Doss of The Olivia Tremor Control also quietly joined the band "officially" as its new keyboardist. John Ferguson (musician)|John Ferguson of Big Fresh and Ulysses (band)|Ulysses joined the Apples in 2007, also playing keyboards, and wearing a Doctor Who -esque space suit on stage.

In December 2006, Robert Schneider appeared on the popular television show The Colbert Report to kick off a guitar solo contest between the show's host Stephen Colbert and Chris Funk of The Decemberists .

On February 6, 2007, The Apples in Stereo released their sixth studio LP, New Magnetic Wonder . Finishing a ten year deal with spinART Records , New Magnetic Wonder was the premiere release on Simian Records , a newly formed record label founded by Elijah Wood . This was followed by a long-awaited b-sides and rarities compilation titled Electronic Projects for Musicians , released on April 1. http://www.youaintnopicasso.com/2007/05/10/apples-in-stereo-to-release-rarities-comp/ Apples in Stereo to release rarities comp at You Ain't No Picasso

In 2008, spinART Records went out of business. Rights for all major releases by The Apples in Stereo on the label have since been acquired by One Little Indian Records . In a recent interview, Schneider noted that the band's EPs have yet to have been re-released, but will likely be collected for another compilation. http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Apples+In+Stereo/videos/144910577 The Apples in stereo – Electronic Projects for Musicians p1dead link|date=February 2012 at iLike Such a compilation would probably include the re-releases of Look Away + 4 , '' Let's Go& #33; (The Apples in Stereo EP)|Let's Go! and a number of non-album songs released alongside New Magnetic Wonder .

On August 4, 2008, the band appeared again on The Colbert Report . They performed their song Can You Feel It? to promote the release of the Japanese picture disc. http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml? videoId=178718 Videomdead link|date=February 2012

In early 2008, their song "Same Old Drag" won in The 7th Annual The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards for Best Pop/Rock Song. http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/jukebox2008.asp Independent Music Awards – 7th Annual Winners The same year Apples in Stereo were nominated for The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards Pop/Rock Album of the Year. The band members also joined the 9th annual The Independent Music Awards|Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers.cite web|url= http://www.independentmusicawards.com/ima_new/imajudges2010.asp |title=Independent Music Awards – 9th Annual Judges |publisher=Independentmusicawards.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-23

2009–present


Yep Roc released Number 1 Hits Explosion|#1 Hits Explosion , an Apples in Stereo best-of album, on Sept. 1, 2009.cite web|url= http://www.yeproc.com/artist_info.php? artistId=11076/ |title=The Apples in stereo at Yep Roc |publisher=Yeproc.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-23

In early 2009, Schneider confirmed that the band was recording their new album at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, New York. He described the album to sound like early 1970s|70s R& B as it would sound played by Extraterrestrial life|aliens and emanating from an alien spaceship. http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex? id=6934215/ ABC News Amplified: Apples In Stereo at ABC News

The result is the band's seventh album Travellers in Space and Time , released on April 20, 2010 on Simian Records . Described by Schneider as a " retro-futuristic " concept album intended as a time capsule for listeners of the future, Travellers has drawn comparisons to the style of Electric Light Orchestra . The record is the first Apples in Stereo album without Hilarie Sidney, making Schneider the last founding member remaining in the group, although John Hill joined before "in stereo" was added to the name.Allmusic|class=album|id=r1737105|pure_url=yes Travellers in Space and Time at All Music Guide The band was invited by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, England.cite web|url= http://www.atpfestival.com/events/jeffmangum.php |title=ATP curated by Jeff Mangum |publisher=Atpfestival.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-23

In recent years, Schneider has explored a number of experimental music projects, such as the Teletron mind-controlled synthesizer and Non-Pythagorean scale of his own invention.

Band members



Current members


  • 1992 to present – Robert Schneider ; guitar, lead vocals

  • 1994 to present – John Hill (musician)|John Hill ; guitar

  • 1995 to present – Eric Allen (musician)|Eric Allen ; bass

  • 2006 to present – Bill Doss ; keyboards

  • 2006 to present – John Dufilho ; drums

  • 2006 to present – John Ferguson (musician)|John Ferguson ; vocals, keyboards


  • Former members


  • 1992 to 2006 – Hilarie Sidney ; drums, vocals

  • 1999 to 2002 – Chris McDuffie ; keyboards

  • 1992 to 1994 – Jim McIntyre (musician)|Jim McIntyre ; bass

  • 1992 to 1993 – Chris Parfitt ; guitar


  • Selected discography


    Main|The Apples in Stereo discography
  • Fun Trick Noisemaker (1995)

  • Tone Soul Evolution (1997)

  • Her Wallpaper Reverie (1999)

  • The Discovery of a World Inside the Moone (2000)

  • Velocity of Sound (2002)

  • New Magnetic Wonder (2007)

  • Travellers in Space and Time (2010)


  • References


    Reflist

    External links


  • Official website|applesinstereo.com

  • http://www.e6townhall.com/forumdisplay.php? fid=2 Official message board

  • http://www.elephant6.com/bands/apples.html The Apples in Stereo at Elephant6.com

  • Myspace|theapplesinstereo

  • http://www.tractor-beam.com Tractor Beam Management

  • MusicBrainz artist|id=ea075268-e5ea-40f7-b9c3-68b039218a88|name=The Apples in Stereo

  • http://www.archive.org/details/TheApplesInStereo The Apples in Stereo at Internet Archive|Live Music Archive

  • http://cornellsun.com/node/21207 Interview with the Cornell Daily Sun

  • http://www.stepthroughtheportal.com/ Step Through the Portal


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