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Members: Joshua Silverberg (vocals, guitar), Joe Morin (drums), Josh "Mountain" Morin (vocals, bass), James Usher (guitar)
For fans of: Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeff Buckley, Lovedrug, The Police, The Mars Volta, Rush
Label: Credential/EMI

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Edison Glass, the hypothetical collaboration of Thomas Alva Edison and composer Philip Glass, formed in 1999 when Joshua Silverberg (singer/guitar), brothers Joe (drums) and Mountain (singer/bass) Morin, and James Usher (guitar) came together for a singular cause - making rock music for the kids. Music for the kids with short attention spans as well as the vinyl and mix-tape graduates.

Each member of the Long Island band found music to be their creative outlet at an early age. While some in the band began piano lessons at around the age of 8 years old, Silverberg penned his first song in kindergarten. Being stuck in piano lessons at the same time you are forming a band means that you have dabbled in everything from Nirvana covers to Bach, from complex orchestral arrangements to the murkiest depths of punk rock.

"We've grown up together we have been writing and playing music since we met as kids," says Silverberg. "Joe and Mountain grew up next door to me and James was a mutual friend of ours. So we have experienced all kinds of silly things together like puberty, stupid high school drama, college drama and now post college drama." Usher adds, "At home, we all live extremely close to each other and hang out with all of the same friends. I couldn't really imagine life without these people and I really couldn't avoid them if I wanted to. They're like my family except I spend a lot more time with them and I see them naked a lot more often."

Drawing from a soup of Indie rock, smart pop and classical influences, Edison Glass has developed a sound that, while akin to The Police and The Mars Volta, is very much all their own. After all, being in a band was never about being cool; creating music has always been a necessary outlet. "I think a lot of bands have a tendency to constantly be looking around at each other sort of waiting for something exciting to happen, waiting for the next cool 'scene' to pop up," says Usher. "I like to think that's what makes us different, we're a little more interested in creatively figuring out ourselves and the world we live in than trying to keep up with any scene. There's way too many contenders out there for the "I'm deep and dark" prize, same can be said for "I'm original and artsy!" The only title we're fighting for is 'most like Edison Glass'."

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