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Tree :: Vocals
Ben :: Guitar
Damien :: Drums
Will :: Bass

[BIO]

Formed in 2002 The Outside was born from an ad the bass player Will, ran in the Village Voice seeking out creative musicians. Will, Damien (drums) and Ben (guitar) gathered and instantly started sculpting the sound and style that would later become The Outside. Soon after, the missing link, Tree (vocals) auditioned...but was not taken. Bottom line is, we werent ready for her. We had just formed and needed time to mature and grow musically. Almost a year later, Tree came back. It was obvious that they had found their voice.

Since then The Outside have continued on their relentless charge to break through the walls of the alternative rock/post-hardcore genre. Their 2004 release You Are The Alpha...Gracias Por Nada gained them numerous festival appearances and critical acclaim. Billboard and Taxi selecting the group as 1 of 6 fInalists from over 1,000 to perform in the fInal NE show of the Discmakers Independent Music World Series was a high point. As was being a critics pick for Cincinnatis Midpoint Music Festival.

Their newly released, self produced disc Something Urgent (released 12.02.06) brilliantly captures the bands ability to write relevant songs that soundtrack life while never sacrifIcing their live energy for studio sound. Donning references to early Pumpkins and Sonic Youth, the disc is another statement in the bands manifesto to create unique and provocative material that catapults the listener into a live show full of emotion and not easily forgotten.

[PRESS]
ONLINE ROCK
A blissful rock n' roll listening experience. [>]

3:16 PRODUCTIONS
Sounding like Yeah Yeah Yeahs on steroids, The Outsides barrage of melodic musings and off-kilter rhythms and timings intrigues and excites. [>]

ALBERT EINSTEIN
The bitter and the sweet come from The Outside.

NEW YORK WASTE
[Alpha CD Review excerpt] Powerful and passionate - a mix of full tilt riffs, melodic tunes and baby doll vocals that catches you by surprise. [>]

TARTAREANDESIRE.COM
Track down this quartet soon and jump on the bandwagon now. [>]

THE MUSIC KORNER
Able to maintain a dreamy female vocal that viciously morphs into a guttural growl without warning help The Outside fine tune its usually dissonant yet uniquely angular wall of sound.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
America will never be destroyed from The Outside

JERSEY BEATS
[Alpha CD Review excerpt] This EP will kick your ass.

CITY BEAT
[Critics Pick for Midpoint Music Festival] The Outside is the anti-Evanescence. Frontwoman Tree's vocals are spit out Kittie-style or released in a sugary Beth orton vibrato. The music is heavy but not abrasive or ham-fisted; in fact, the arrangements are befitting a Prog-Metal band (think Tool, not Dream Theatre). Dynamics are all over the board and also maintained long enough to establish a mood rather than toggling back and forth for effect. Having said all of that, fans of Evanescence will probably love them, too. With festival and magazine appearances increasing exponentially, The Outside are truly a band on their way up, but definitely one that will make it there with their artistic integrity intact. [>]

DECOY MUSIC
Not since Skunk Anansies Skin has a female vocalist displayed so much bowels of the throat ability without losing or compromising her vocal beauty. [>]

CINCINATI.COM
The Outside, a New York group that enthralled its Cincinnati-area audience at Chicks RockFest in April, came back to town to deliver a ferocious set at Alchemize. Conversations in the buzzing room hushed as the band launched a guitar assault and a massive attack of percussion, led by the relentless charge of frontwoman Tree's fierce vocals. [>]

THE AQUARIAN
Tree can switch her pipes from melodic crooning to hardcore rants without dropping a note, all the while proving that not only can women bring it, but in this case, they bring it a lot harder. [>]