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Biography
Infobox musical artist | name = Hopewell| image = Hopewell-06.jpg| caption = Hopewell, in Staten Island, New York in 2008 Photo by Alexandra Marvar | background = group_or_band| origin = Hopewell Junction, NY ; Brooklyn, NY | genre = Psychedelic rock | label = TeePee Records ; Star Mole (Japan) ; Burnt Hair Records ; Priapus; Sunnylane| associated_acts = The Silent League , Mercury Rev , Wounded Knees , Common Prayer , Gay for Johnny Depp , Grand Mal (band)|Grand Mal , Whip (musician)|Whip | website = http://hopewell.tv/ Official Website| current_members = Jason Sebastian Russo|Jason Russo Jay Green Rich Meyer Tyson Lewis Lyndon Roeller |past_members = Justin Russo , Dalia Garih , Reno Bo , Phil Williams Hopewell is an American rock band. The band was founded by Jason Sebastian Russo , of Hopewell Junction, New York . At 19, Russo joined Mercury Rev , and then struck out on his own with a band named after his hometown. http://www.nypress.com/blog-7054-getting-personal-with-jason-russo.html Interview by Jonny Leather for the New York Press
Career
History
In 1995, seminal Detroit-based space rock label Burnt Hair Records released the band's first single, a split with Michigan-based drone-ambient group Windy & Carl . Hopewell's first full-length, Contact , came out on Burnt Hair in 1997. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hopewell Hopewell Discography on Discogs Their second release, 2001's The Curved Glass , led to European distribution, festival appearances and a John Peel session. List of Peel sessions#H|List of Peel Sessions What followed was a transition period of line-up and stylistic changes. Most notable was the loss of Dalia Garih as drummer. After regrouping, the band signed to Tee Pee Records and released Hopewell & The Birds Of Appetite , produced by Dave Fridmann of Flaming Lips fame at Tarbox Road Studios . Dave Fridmann|Biography: Dave Fridmann Its follow-up, Beautiful Targets , produced by Fridmann protege Bill Racine, was released in 2007 and its symphonic rock leanings were often compared to Mercury Rev and the Flaming Lips. http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/10519-beautiful-targets Pitchfork Review: Beautiful Targets
The band's 2009 release, Good Good Desperation (album)|Good Good Desperation , took them in a heavier direction, aligned by critics with Pink Floyd 's Meddle and Can (band)|Can 's Tago Mago . http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/10071-hopewell-good-good-desperation Pop Matters Review: Good Good Desperation
Hopewell's music has appeared on the soundtracks for films including Tarnation (film)| Tarnation and PsychoGuru ( Tribeca Film Festival selection 2011), http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi1196098841/ PsychoGuru IMDB and television shows including One Tree Hill (TV series)|One Tree Hill and Greek (TV series)|Greek . Other notable appearances include skate videos by Thrasher (magazine)| Thrasher magazine http://skate.ly/library/videos/thrasher-magazine-prevent-this-tragedy#21048 Thrasher magazine "Prevent This Tragedy" Video and Converse (shoe company)|Converse , http://jasonsebastianrusso.com/ Jason Sebastian Russo Official Web Site as well as the seminal Birdhouse Skateboards film The Beginning (film)| The Beginning .
Recent work
On November 2, 2010, Hopewell released the first volume of a two-part live album, Hopewell Live , recorded between Truck Festival America (2010) and All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|All Tomorrow's Parties NY in 2009. All Tomorrow's Parties Festival lineups|All Tomorrow's Parties Festival Line-ups The first of the two volumes features several songs from Hopewell's fifth full-length, Good Good Desperation (2009, Tee Pee Records ) and was released to correspond with the band's US tour supporting the The Dandy Warhols . http://newyork.timeout.com/music-nightlife/music/491665/the-dandy-warhols-hopewell Time Out New York Events Listing: The Dandy Warhols + Hopewell
Albums
Contact (Burnt Hair, 1998)
The Purple Balloon EP (Priapus, 1999)
The Curved Glass (Priapus, 2001)
Hopewell & The Birds of Appetite(album)|Hopewell & The Birds of Appetite (Tee Pee Records, 2005)
The Notbirds (EP)|The Notbirds EP (Sunnylane, 2006 EP)
Beautiful Targets(album)|Beautiful Targets (Tee Pee Records / Star Mole (Japan), 2007)
