"Mixing vintage garage rock with punkish roots and elements of psychedelica into a heady brew of their own creation,The Screens are perhaps the best unsigned band in America right now." BEATWIRE.COM

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ROCK: Garage Rock, ROCK: Hard Rock



Details:
Brief history:

The Screens are a three piece garage/hard rock band ala Queens of the Stone Age, The Stooges, AC/DC, Wolfmother and have played over 112 shows in the last 2 years all over the Twin Cities and the Midwest. To date the band has released a 3 song demo reaching 79 on CMJ top 200 and just finished a 7 song EP that will be promoted through Tinderbox and Vitriol Radio Promotions.


Things weâve done:

The Screens 3 song self-released EP charted at number 11 on CMJ's top 20 college radio adds for the week July 20th, 2004. The EP then climbed to number 79 on CMJ's top 200 after 3 weeks with a self-released EP and remained on the charts for more than 10 weeks.

The Screens song âFluorescentâ reached 27 in the top 50 Rock Charts on the American Idol Underground website July 10, 2006!!

The Screens song âFluorescentâ is chosen for an exclusive bump for Cartoon Network's [Adult Swim] programming block Feb. 27-March 7, 2006!!

The song "Soul Sister" appears on the "Friends With Benefits" compilation, summer 2005.

Performed on the Minneapolis based television show, "Nate On Drums" Feb. 6, 2006

Featured on radio show THE LA MUSIC PIPELINE⢠with big-FM, Sept. 15, 2006

The Screens are a âbuzzâ band at the Midwest Music Summit and their single "Honey" is chosen to appear on the Midwest Music Summit sampler CD 2004

Performed at NXNE Festival in Toronto, Canada along side Television, The Buzcocks, Tully and the Wall, and others, June, 2006!

The Screens single "Cuz" appears on the Minneapolis, MN Pizza Luce "We Want The Airwaves" compilation CD, summer 2006!


A select few good words weâve received:

"Mixing vintage garage rock with punkish roots and elements of psychedelica into a heady brew of their own creation, the Screens are perhaps the best unsigned band in America right now. This is the kind of no-frills rock & roll that Bomp! Records founder Greg Shaw practically invented (or at least nurtured), the Screens delivering a potent musical elixir to chase away those corporate-rock blues." MONDOGORDO.COM - ALT CULTURE GUIDE, JAN.05

ââ¦theyre like being run over by a train carrying The Kinks, Jet and The Hives. Theyre loud, theyre fast, and they possess a lot of power.â RIFT MAGAZINE DECEMBER, 2004


I can't tell you how special it is to have a 3-song EP from a first time, self-released band this high [on the CMJ charts]. It says something about how good the music is. JERRY STELLER, VITRIOL RADIO PROMOTION

"The Screens are the first 'unsigned' band in years I really have any belief in." MIHKEL RAUD, BEATWIRE.COM