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Joey Ryan & The Inks

- Saint Paul, MN Pop / Indie / Rock

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Members: Joey Ryan - Guitar/ Vocals, Tim Dickson - Keys/ Vocals, Chris Mitchell - Guitar/ Vocals, Matt Mitchell - Bass Guitar, Ryan Mach - Drums

Bio: "Like Surfer Girl having ventured to a place where the buffalo roam”, Joey Ryan & The Inks have fused a penchant for breezy West Coast pop with their Midwestern roots, drawing comparison to some of the best of both worlds in the process. (Isthmus). Dennis Lane, The Inks’ second effort, was voted ... See Full Bio

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Back in the Studio - currently tracking a new song called "Jester in the Wind"

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“GREAT NEW POP BAND. Listeners into bands like Teenage Fanclub, Game Theory, Big Star, and Sufjan Stevens will immediately be drawn into this band's music. Joey Ryan & The Inks record intelligent pure pop with an emphasis on interesting vocal melodies. The songs on Well, Here We Are Then are clean and smart...and ultimately very very catchy. Not only are the songs great...but the vocals are absolutely mind-blowing. So many modern pop bands are carbon copies of one another. That is definitely not the case here. These folks are inventive...and they're making classic pop music that will sound incredible for decades to come. Twelve groovy cuts here including "Don't Look Back On Your Own," "Oh, Caroline," "You Are All Friends of Mine," and "The Part Taken." TOP PICK. ”

— BabySue.com

““Well, Here We Are Then,” the debut album from fresh-faced quintet Joey Ryan and the Inks, is a slice of breezy West Coast pop dang near on par with the greats of the genre. Like Brian Wilson before him, Ryan understands the power of pairing melancholic ache with exceedingly sunny melodies, while his bandmates toss off tasty power-pop riffs with a razor-sharp accuracy rarely heard outside of early Cars records”

— "Twin Cities Best Band Showdown", Metromix Twin Cities

“#10 (tie) on Best of 2009 Albums JOEY RYAN & THE INKS, "WELL, HERE WE ARE THEN" Attention Sufjan Stevens and Shins fans: Minneapolis now has its own boyishly voiced, playfully arranged, sunny-side-up ethereal folk-pop band. This quintet's full-length debut enlists horns, banjo, bells and lots of piano to great effect. Ryan, 25, also harks back to Brian Wilson in the openly titled "Oh, Caroline" and Alex Chilton in "Shame on Me Once (Shame on You Twice)," and his youth helps keep it all sweet and absolutely sincere. ”

— CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Star Tribune

“Here's one last album for the 2009 Best Of lists. Well, Here We Are Then is a vitamin D jolt, a perfectly timed release to aid winter-chilled Midwesterners yearning for an injection of anything warm and sunny. The local five-piece transports listeners to mid-'60s California, where masses of beach bums were able to sing four-part harmonies while simultaneously surfing monster waves and daydreaming about Liverpool and Cuban heel boots. Though listeners would be hard pressed to find a track undeserving of radio play and audience applause, Joey Ryan and the Inks are at their best when they let the sun shine.”

— Erin Roof, City Pages

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