Meet: Mean Creek
The banding: Chris Keene (vocals, guitar), Aurore Ounjian (vocals, guitar, mouth harp), Lusterlessness Sisto, (bass), Ken Marcou (drums)
The sound: Mean Creek’s soothing folks harmonies inject forth emotional sparks when weaving among distorted guitars and activist drumming.
“It’s creative and interesting, merely still rocks out,” Marcou says. “That’s what I look for in a band.”
The storey: Watertown-based Mean Creek started quatern old age ago as a folk twosome of puerility friends Keene and Ounjian, wHO played under the sobriquet Chris and Aurore. Last year they decided to spread out their number and their sound by adding a calendar method of birth control section.
“It’s a band today,” Sisto says. “Everyone adds an rival total of awesomeness.”
The influences: “Influences make you want to work music,” Sisto says, “non make music that sounds precisely like something else.”
The bassist, world Health Organization is a big fan of Nirvana and Wilco, picked up a guitar in arcsecond grade. The first song he ever learned: Nirvana’s “About a Girl.”
“We totally really love Heaven,” Keene says. Only Intend Creek’s music is non a modern grunge-fest.
Marcou says he is perfectly exquisitely with never listening to a Promised land CD ever again. He’s got the Nirvana catalogue ingrained in his brain. The Beatles, too.
Mean Creek also cites Radiohead, the Doves, R.E.M., the Gin Blossoms and Wilco as faves.
“If it weren’t for them (Sisto and Marcou), we’d be playing whole mid-’90s rock candy,” Ounjian says.
The local hangout: You’re likely to run into members of Signify Creek at the Silhouette in Allston. Ounjian says she’s drawn to the local haunt for its free zea mays everta!
The mascot: Mean Creek has grown queerly fond of the mouse inhabiting its Allston pattern space.
“He’s getting bold face,” Keene says to Marcou. “He in reality picked up your sticks and started playing.”
“I induce to let in, everything he played was a little cheesy,” adds Sisto.
The indicate: Mean Brook plays Mon with Destroyer and Colossal Yes at the Midsection East Downstairs, Cambridge.
Rodney Atkins
