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Robbie Guertin | |
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 Robbie Guertin performing live at the Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, MA on November 12, 2007. | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Belmont, Massachusetts, USA |
| Genres | Indie rock |
Robbie Guertin is a former keyboardist/guitarist/backup vocalist for the indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and a drummer/vocalist for the band Radical Dads.
Robbie grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts and went to Belmont High School. He attended college at Connecticut College along with the other members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah prior to the group's formation where he studied art. Robbie is featured in The Warhol Economy: How Fashion Art & Music Drive New York City [1] in regards to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
Robbie was also the primary art director and often the artist for all of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's album and single covers, as well as several concert posters. The first album's artwork was a collaboration with artist Dasha Shishkin.
On July 3, 2012 Guertin publicly announced that after a final show in New York City on July 7, he would no longer be a member of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. [2]
Robbie and Dasha Shishkin also collaborated to create BB&PPINC. [3] They were one of the artists featured in By Hand: The Use of Craft in Contemporary Art. [4] BB&PPINC had a solo exhibition and book release party at About Glamour Gallery in Brooklyn [5] .
Robbie was also in the band Uninhabitable Mansions [6] which also featured Tyler Sargent from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah along with Annie Hart from Au Revoir Simone, along with Chris Diken. Uninhabitable Mansions is also an art collective and record label.
Robbie currently plays drums and sings in the band Radical Dads [7]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is an indie rock band active since the early 2000s in and out of Philadelphia. The band was founded as a collaboration between singer-songwriter Alec Ounsworth, Sean Greenhalgh, Robbie Guertin, Lee Sargent, and Tyler Sargent. Ounsworth now performs under the name, as a solo artist.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is the eponymous debut studio album by American musical project Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, self-released in the United States on 28 June 2005, and released in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2006 by Wichita Recordings. Produced and mixed by Adam Lasus, the album and the band rose to fame after buzz and attention built up on various MP3 blogs and a very positive ("9.0/10") review from influential music website Pitchfork. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was listed as one of the 50 most important recordings of the decade by National Public Radio's All Songs Considered.
The Spinto Band is an American indie rock band from Wilmington, Delaware. Formed in 1996, the band comprises singer and guitarist Nick Krill, singer and bassist Thomas Hughes, drummer Jeffrey Hobson, keyboardist Sam Hughes, and guitarist Joey Hobson. They originally released music on their own label, Spintonic Recordings.
Belmont High School is a four-year public high school in Belmont, Massachusetts, United States. It had 1,364 students enrolled and a student/teacher ratio of 16.3:1 in the 2022–2023 school year. It placed #290 in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report national rankings and #3 for Massachusetts.
Wichita Recordings is an independent record label located in London, founded in 2000 by Mark Bowen and Dick Green. Its most notable signees include Bloc Party, The Cribs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bright Eyes, My Morning Jacket, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Best Coast, Los Campesinos! and Peter Bjorn and John. The label signed Clap Your Hands Say Yeah for a UK distribution deal for the group's debut album. They also signed the UK producers Simian Mobile Disco for the UK.
Steven M. Berlin is an American saxophonist, keyboardist and record producer, best known as a member of the rock group Los Lobos and, before that, Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, the Blasters, and the Flesh Eaters. Berlin is married and lives with his wife and children in Portland, Oregon. Berlin joined the band Tuatara as a side project in 1998 on their second album, Trading with the Enemy.
"In This Home on Ice" is a song by Brooklyn-based indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, from their eponymous debut album. The song was released as a single in the United Kingdom by Wichita Recordings on February 27, 2006. The single was backed with another track from the eponymous album, "Gimmie Some Salt", and a non-album track, "Cigarettes." The single reached #68 on the UK Singles Chart.
Fireproof Recording is a recording studio, which became an important part of the indie music scene in New York City. In 1997, Adam Lasus moved to Brooklyn, New York and started the company.
Alec Ounsworth is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and frontman of indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. He is also a member of The Pelican Picnic and Flashy Python. His first solo album, Mo Beauty was released October 20, 2009, on Anti- Records.
Takka Takka is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Performing since 2006, the band's members include Gabe Levine, Conrad Doucette, Rene Planchon and Craig Montoro.
The Monolith Festival was a music festival held at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. The first festival took place September 14–15, 2007 on 5 stages, including the Red Rocks main stage.
Seneca Hawk is a Los Angeles–based rock and roll trio consisting of Jonah Rivera, Kyle Beswick, and Ankur Bulsara.
Sean Greenhalgh is a music producer and multi-instrumentalist best known as the drummer in the band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Sean is featured in The Warhol Economy: How Fashion Art & Music Drive New York City in regard to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's rise to blog fame in 2005.
Hysterical is the third album by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. It was released in September 2011.
Dasha Shishkin is an artist who works in acrylic, gouache, pastel, conté crayon, graphite, and ink, and produces prints by etching. Shishkin's drawings are often painted on both sides of the transparent polyester film known as mylar. Most of her prints are sold through Griffelkunst in Hamburg, a democratic printshop founded in 1935 that distributes select prints to subscription members under the condition they cannot be resold, only given away or inherited.
Radical Dads are an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York.
Annie Hart is an American film singer-songwriter and composer. She primarily composes and performs in the band Au Revoir Simone. In 2017, she released a solo album entitled Impossible Accomplice. She has contributed vocals to other artists' projects and appeared on the 2017 series of Twin Peaks. She has composed and performed the score of Banana Split (2018) and, along with Jay Wadley, Olympic Dreams (2020).
New Fragility is the sixth studio album by American indie rock band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. The album was self-released on February 12, 2021.
Maya Pindyck is an American poet, scholar, and visual artist. She is director of writing and a professor at Moore College of Art and Design.
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