Eight tracks of guitar-based rock with rich vocal harmonies.

8 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Americana, POP: Pop/Rock

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âMy Dad was in the Sex Police.â

Misha Angrist saw those words on the six-year-old boyâs paper and became concerned. He wondered if he should tell the teacher or perhaps even place a call to Child and Family Services.

Angrist, a science editor at Duke, had recently moved to Durham and was volunteering in his daughterâs first-grade class at Club Boulevard Humanities Magnet School. He had asked the children to write a story featuring a musical instrument. One of his daughterâs classmates, Ben Maxwell, wrote about his father Jody, who played drums for legendary Chapel-Hill funk-rockers Sex Police in the 1990s.

Benâs mother and Jodyâs wife Julie happened to be in class that day and assured Angrist that her husband was a musician, not a pervert or a vice cop. Angrist, as it happened, was a weekend guitar player looking to put together an original rock band. He called Maxwell, who was itching to play again after a long layoff.

The two soon caught wind of a couple of other musical parents of young kids at Club Boulevard, singer Jennie Peters and bassist DJ James.

All the foursome needed now was a name. Acknowledging the bandâs origins in the halls of Club Boulevard, whose school mascot is the manatee, they went with âSea Cow.â

Earlier this year Raleigh guitarist Andrew Snee, also a father of young children, joined the fray.

âThatâs what it takes to be in this band,â says Peters. âYou have to know something about soccer practice, Harry Potter, Spider-Man, minivans and car pools.â