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Asa Somers | Thomas Fiorini | Mark Kondracki | Pete Pepe |
lead vocals acoustic guitar |
bass | electric guitar | drums |
generica, your dependable source for New York's best alternative pop, is the latest adventure of 26-year-old South Carolina native Asa Somers (vocals, acoustic guitar). Armed with memorable hook-filled melodies, lyrics of uncommon intelligence that tell compelling stories, and tight musicianship, generica has swept through the downtown New York club scene, captivating a growing following with its collection of guitar-based, vocally driven songs.
Critics have called generica's sound everything from "tasty" and "post-punk" to "poignant" and "starry-eyed." Whatever. The band prefers to think of its unique blend of funky, infectious grooves and carefully crafted lyrics as post-power pop. As a singer, Somers has been described as "a Jeff Buckley for the rest of us," and while his hyperkinetic stage antics lead to a troubling number of broken strings, he remains unfazed: "Hey, it's cheaper than smashing the whole guitar."
After a year-long stretch of performances at clubs including The Mercury Lounge, Cafe Sin-e, AKA, New Music Cafe, and CBGB Gallery, Somers took the band into the studio in July, 1994 to record its debut CD, Glass Eye. generica's current lineup came together in July of this year, when Somers was joined by bassist Thomas Fiorini, drummer Pete Pepe, and electric guitarist Mark Kondracki.
Since then, Somers and generica have been touring south of 14th St., playing material from Glass Eye as well as many new songs, including the consistently crowd-pleasing "Superstar," "Stranger Things Have Happened," "I Will Follow You," "Deceived," and "Today's the Day."
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Glass Eye was released in October, 1994, and is published by
, New
York City.
final frontier | lite up (223 KB) |
the dive (367 KB) | spy |
sea monster | what's mine is mine (174 KB) |
what's mine is mine (whole song - 1 MB) | twice on tuesday |
wrong | very marianne |
now we know | still |
Note: the audio clips are in WAV format. If you are on a UNIX
machine and require the AU format, click
here to
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here to get
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A one-minute excerpt of Lite Up can also be downloaded from CompuServe.
Type GO EDITOR from any ! prompt and look for LITEUP.WAV in the library of
the Trends section.
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Write us: generica Dysfunction Musik 861 Broadway, #4 New York, NY 10003
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Call us: Don Willmott Dysfunction Musik 212-503-5271
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E-mail us: generica1@aol.com
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