Sharks And Minnows

Out of the tradition that began with Rites of Spring, and has continued on through Sunny Day Real Estate and Braid, Sharks and Minnows plays passionate, driving rock. However, the band's varying influences meld together to produce a sound that deserves more than the "emocore" tag that's placed upon its predecessors. The band's sound owes just as much to the pop/punk Replacements / Husker Du tradition. Sharks and Minnows has its beginning in early 1999 when Christopher Simony and Chad Spangler, one-time high school classmates and long-time bandmates, recruiting Daniel Heisel, another former classmate in a punk band, to join their band. The band immediately hit upon the right formula, and the band committed several songs to tape at Red Lab in Atlanta. Those first sessions led to the EP Julie et Cetera, which was released in the summer of 2000. Sharks and Minnows returned to Red Lab in early 2001 to record its first full-length, titled Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board, which was released in the fall of 2001.