Grooms - Rejoicer (Black Vinyl) Dance After moving to California from

After moving to California from New York a year prior

jeff nelson's drumming is equally powerful

It’s music inspired by the weariness of modern life that somehow manages to sound straight out of early ‘80s Dunedin

Shakespearean scholar and a celebrated producer and sound artist

which took the band all over the world and broke new ground that hardly seemed possible years prior

Grooms - Rejoicer (Black Vinyl) Dance After moving to California fromTravis Johnson (vocals guitar) and Emily Ambruso (vocals bass) met, ridiculously, on Friendster, shortly before that website became 100% irrelevant, only to meet in person at a Valentines Day party in the Oklahoma woods a few weeks later. They immediately started discussing experimental music and pop, and, after relocating separately to New York in 2004, starting playing experimental music and pop together in their bedrooms. They met Jim Sykes (drums)