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Find out more about generica:


generica is:

Asa Somers Thomas Fiorini Mark Kondracki Pete Pepe
Asa Thomas Mark pete
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."


-discography-

pic cover pic back cover pic inside front
pic inside cover

Glass Eye was released in October, 1994, and is published by , New York City.


-audio clips from Glass Eye-

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 download a WAV-to-AU converter and the WWW browser patch, and here to get the installer script. This script is for SPARC architectures only.

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.


-photo gallery-

Asa walking (wow)
Logo2
Logo3
Logo4
Asa w/ guitar
Mark's mug shot
Tommy with Mickey

-generica's top groupies-

Sextet 1991:

The Hobbit
The Count
The Ratt
The Benno
The Gau

New York groupies:

vicki jacobson
jesse sheidlower
robbins
colin the brother

Southeast groupies:

the rents


-the contacts-

Write us:
generica
Dysfunction Musik
861 Broadway, #4
New York, NY 10003

Call us:
Don Willmott
Dysfunction Musik
212-503-5271

E-mail us:
generica1@aol.com

For more information about generica, for booking, or to sign on to our mailing lists (postal and electronic), contact Don Willmott at Dysfunction Musik (dwillmott@mcimail.com). Make sure to include any pertinent information.


Last modified: Sun Sep 17 23:45:59 1995 by Doug Burger (dburger@cs.wisc.edu)