White Shoes & the Couples Company
“One of the best bands on Myspace”
-Rolling Stone Magazine
“A deliciously anachronistic sound”
- TIME Magazine
“One of the 25 Most Crushworthy Bands of 2006 -
The Best Indie Pop Band from Indonesia Ever”
- All Music Guide
“Most Blog Worthy Band on The Planet”
- Yahoo! Music
“Best Dressed Band at SXSW 08”
-Vanity Fair
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Indie pop group White Shoes and the Couples Company from Jakarta, Indonesia, are bringing their mix of orchestral pieces, clap-along pop tunes, and dandelion-delicate love songs to San Francisco for the second time this year.
2008 has been a great year for White Shoes & The Couples Company. The band performed at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas in March to rave press review, and sold out one of the best music venues in San Francisco. The band will perform at the CMJ Music Festival in New York prior to their San Francisco date. They've been named one of the Top 25 Bands on MySpace by Rolling Stone, featured in Time magazine, praised by Pitchfork and named "One of the Most Crush-worthy Bands" by All Music Guide
Their new EP Skenario Masa Muda will be available October 28, 2008, a follow up to their self-titled debut, released on the Chicago based Minty Fresh record label. Singing in both English and Indonesian, this sextet makes pop songs that you'd be excused for thinking had come straight off the soundtrack of Katamari Damacy, or a tender Sonny Chiba movie.
Indeed, these former art school classmates (the band met each other while attending the Art Institute of Jakarta) cite 1970s movie soundtracks as an influence. No surprise, as it's easy to picture a bell-bottom-entangling embrace to at least a few of their sweeping tracks. Asian directors have already spotted the band's cinematic sound, and have featured their songs in a pair of Indonesian films, Janji Joni and Berbagi Suami.
White Shoes & The Couples Company will perform on November 2nd, 7pm, at 330 Ritch, San Francisco
FREE White Shoes MP3 - Tentang Cita - from Minty Fresh
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VIDEOS
Amoeba Performance, San Francisco - March 08
Windu & Defrina
Sunday Memory Lane
Senandung Maaf
Sabda Alam
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