MP3 Team Tomato - Lie Down With Dogs

Take the grungy garage rock of Guided by Voices, then throw in the twisted pop melodies and burnt-sugar twang of 1980s R.E.M. and some ragged bar-band bluster.

11 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, POP: Beatles-pop



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Team Tomato, out of St. Louis, recently released their second official LP, "Lie Down With Dogs," to local critical and popular acclaim. Hailed by their highly renowned mastering technician Brad Sarnos as "Radiohead meets Guided by Voices," mid-westerners Team Tomato draw on the classic rock of their fathers as well as the modern rock of their teenage wilderness years. As adults, they play something they can call their own - from big choruses and driving guitar solos, delivered sans irony, to dissonance and deconstruction. Fractured wordplay winds its way over muddy slide guitars, delayed atmospheres and all-out rock.


"What does Team Tomato sound like? Take the grungy garage rock of Guided by Voices, then throw in the twisted pop melodies and burnt sugar twang of 1980s R.E.M. and some ragged bar band bluster." - Annie Zaleski, music editor, St. Louis Riverfront Times.


At any given time Team Tomato are in a scene, but they are never of it. They play shows with the best regional rock, country, punk, metal, and indie bands, gathering fans at every turn. In Los Angeles, they impressed GBV guitarist Doug Gillard himself with the strength of their songwriting, which is, after all, what they are about.


Their last self-recorded and self-produced album "Words and Skin and Bone," which won them a best local release nomination for 2004 in Playback magazine, and brought them to Los Angeles to accept the 2005 D.I.Y. Album of the Year award, was the work of a band only just beginning to find its sound. "Team Tomato's songs are skillfully-crafted and densely layered; infused with catchy hooks, haunting melodies and impressive jams which demonstrate a maturity level that reaches well beyond the band members' years."-Michelle Ulsohn, Playback STL. The band's first attempt at creating an album together also garnered them a spot in the VH1 Song of the Year competition for the title track, and propelled them to the final round of the regional Emergenza competition.


Hailing from St. Louis and proud of it, the members of Team Tomato - Luis Actis on drums, Eric Clay rhythm guitar and vocals, Jordan Ross on bass, and Brian Wiegert on lead guitar an vocals - are an obstinately down to earth group. They all have full time jobs that pay the bills - they may not stand out in a crowd for the way they dress. But when you consider the music they make, they are anything but four "regular" guys - they are four guys making some of the best, most honest and original rock music out there today.


To learn more about Team Tomato go to www.teamtomato.com or www.myspace.com/teamtomato . To contact Team Tomato email them at info@teamtomato.com.