The Honored Guests
The Honored Guests
Chapel Hill, NC
Rock / Rock / Rock
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From Breakfast Mascot Music:
The Honored Guests recorded their new album, Tastes Change, at The Cabin, their studio on the outskirts of their hometown, Chapel Hill, NC. Tastes Change features The Guests' love for textured simplicity along with sensible experimentation. Recorded over the course of 6 months, while touring on and off, the band has come to a balance between what seems interesting and what seems exciting. After their inception in the fall of 2003, the band first toured as the three piece of Russell Baggett (vocals/guitar), Jeremy Buenviaje (bass), and Andrew Kinghorn (drums). Patrick O'neill (keys/guitar) was added to the band in late 2005 to flesh out the more adventurous parts of the Guests' sound.
Tastes Change is a marked difference from the band's 2004 debut, Iawokeinacityasleep. The more straight forward pop of Iawoke enlisted the help of Robert Sledge (formerly of Ben Folds Five) to co-produce and make sure the engineering was sound. Iawokeinacityasleep's appeal was proven by its airplay on over 150 college radio stations nationwide, including 13 stations that charted the record. Iawoke also spent 4 consecutive months on the RIYL music charts and got the Guests the featured slot at an ASCAP Showcase sponsored by Myspace.
The band continues to tour religiously, already having supported such acts as Longwave (RCA), Midtown (Columbia), Straylight Run (Victory), Hot Rod Circuit (Vagrant), Cub Country (Jade Tree/Future Farmer), Armor For Sleep (Equal Vision), Valient Thorr (Volcom), The Working Title (Universal), Say Anything (J Records), plus many others. The band plans to tour throughout the rest of 2006 and into 2007 to every corner of the U.S. Tastes Change was released on May 2nd, 2006 on Breakfast Mascot Records.
Press on Tastes Change:
"...With a sound this rich, fine-tuned, and thick, it's hard to imagine the Honored Guests have only been around for three years."
Performer Magazine, Lauren Alexis Begnaud, July 2006
"...If Baggett was wearing flannel in the vocal booth last time, he sounds like he's dressed to impress this time, suited up in sartorial British threads and singing for the stars."
Independent Weekly, Grayson Currin, April 26, 2006
"...Peaks and troughs in the album's energy take the listener on a sonic ride that doesn't leave time for distractions."
The Daily Tarheel, Jim Walsh, April 27, 2006
"...Their melodic roots are pleasantly roughed up with sonic experimentation, awash with reverb, distortion and odd percussion."
The Roanoke Times, Orr Shtuhl, May 25, 2006
"...For Tastes Change, this Chapel Hill, NC quartet has expanded - morphed might be the term - into a band that has outdone the awe I initially proclaimed on Iawokeinacityasleep."
Slightly Confusing For A Stranger, June 2006
"...So here we have another talented band sprung from the fertile Chapel Hill music scene, borrowing freely from both sides of the Atlantic for inspiration, and savvy to the truth that doing things independently is just about the only way nowadays to do exactly what you want."
Smokey Mountain News, July 5, 2006
"...It is a precarious dance that The Honored Guests are leading us into, as they are attempting to do two things which so many bands struggle to do independently: they aim to produce rollicking rock songs, yet they still want to create a tonal atmosphere that will affect the listener on more than just the surface."
Harmonium, Jack Pereira, September 27, 2006
The Honored Guests recorded their new album, Tastes Change, at The Cabin, their studio on the outskirts of their hometown, Chapel Hill, NC. Tastes Change features The Guests' love for textured simplicity along with sensible experimentation. Recorded over the course of 6 months, while touring on and off, the band has come to a balance between what seems interesting and what seems exciting. After their inception in the fall of 2003, the band first toured as the three piece of Russell Baggett (vocals/guitar), Jeremy Buenviaje (bass), and Andrew Kinghorn (drums). Patrick O'neill (keys/guitar) was added to the band in late 2005 to flesh out the more adventurous parts of the Guests' sound.Tastes Change is a marked difference from the band's 2004 debut, Iawokeinacityasleep. The more straight forward pop of Iawoke enlisted the help of Robert Sledge (formerly of Ben Folds Five) to co-produce and make sure the engineering was sound. Iawokeinacityasleep's appeal was proven by its airplay on over 150 college radio stations nationwide, including 13 stations that charted the record. Iawoke also spent 4 consecutive months on the RIYL music charts and got the Guests the featured slot at an ASCAP Showcase sponsored by Myspace.
The band continues to tour religiously, already having supported such acts as Longwave (RCA), Midtown (Columbia), Straylight Run (Victory), Hot Rod Circuit (Vagrant), Cub Country (Jade Tree/Future Farmer), Armor For Sleep (Equal Vision), Valient Thorr (Volcom), The Working Title (Universal), Say Anything (J Records), plus many others. The band plans to tour throughout the rest of 2006 and into 2007 to every corner of the U.S. Tastes Change was released on May 2nd, 2006 on Breakfast Mascot Records.
Press on Tastes Change:
"...With a sound this rich, fine-tuned, and thick, it's hard to imagine the Honored Guests have only been around for three years."
Performer Magazine, Lauren Alexis Begnaud, July 2006
"...If Baggett was wearing flannel in the vocal booth last time, he sounds like he's dressed to impress this time, suited up in sartorial British threads and singing for the stars."
Independent Weekly, Grayson Currin, April 26, 2006
"...Peaks and troughs in the album's energy take the listener on a sonic ride that doesn't leave time for distractions."
The Daily Tarheel, Jim Walsh, April 27, 2006
"...Their melodic roots are pleasantly roughed up with sonic experimentation, awash with reverb, distortion and odd percussion."
The Roanoke Times, Orr Shtuhl, May 25, 2006
"...For Tastes Change, this Chapel Hill, NC quartet has expanded - morphed might be the term - into a band that has outdone the awe I initially proclaimed on Iawokeinacityasleep."
Slightly Confusing For A Stranger, June 2006
"...So here we have another talented band sprung from the fertile Chapel Hill music scene, borrowing freely from both sides of the Atlantic for inspiration, and savvy to the truth that doing things independently is just about the only way nowadays to do exactly what you want."
Smokey Mountain News, July 5, 2006
"...It is a precarious dance that The Honored Guests are leading us into, as they are attempting to do two things which so many bands struggle to do independently: they aim to produce rollicking rock songs, yet they still want to create a tonal atmosphere that will affect the listener on more than just the surface."
Harmonium, Jack Pereira, September 27, 2006
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