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The Rondelles

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Biography

Some things spring from the womb fully-formed, and it's no use trying to reckon how or why. The Rondelles epitomize this phenomenon, nonchalantly forging bona fide gems of hand-your-ass-to-you, britpunk-influenced pop as if they'd been doing it for decades. On every possible level — writing, production, performance — Fiction Romance, Fast Machines sounds near-pitch-perfect, anthem upon anthem charging relentlessly across its short, sweet span.

The band formed in Albuquerque as 11th graders, and what started as a garage-bound pastime quickly revealed its serious potential. After playing some local shows and firing off the requisite 4-track demotape volley, they suddely found themselves spoiled with opportunity. Clearly some karmic stockpile was spewing, as offers to record and perform began pouring in from some of the heaviest quarters of independent music.

Hustling constantly across the US and Europe the past 2 years has helped the band grow tighter as a performing unit and spread the word, and opening gigs for such hallowed playas as the Make-Up, Slearter-Kinney and Sonic Youth are priming them for the bigtime. With material out on such formidable labels as Teenbeat, K and Rhino, we consider ourselves priveledged to have presented their debut LP to the world.

Rondelles photo by Chris Hafner


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