Everybell & Whistle .........................................................................................................................................................................................................
Dan Black sings, Tim Cronin plays guitar, Jacob Steinbauer plays drums, and Mark Swoverland plays bass.
An Old Biography:
EVERYBELL & WHISTLE started writing songs a really long time ago. It was initially Tim, Jacob, and Dan, along with Nate Kinsella playing bass. Nate, Tim and Jacob had all gone to high school together, and had been in bands together before. Jacob and Dan had been in bands together too, but mostly they just played at high school talent shows and backyard graduation parties.
Before too long, Nate left Minneapolis for the west coast, Tim left for the east coast, and Jacob and Dan spent a summer in Minneapolis not playing music at all.
Eventually, Nate moved to Chicago, and Tim moved back to Minneapolis. EVERYBELL started writing bass-playerless songs that mixed complex guitar melodies with process-driven vocals, odd time signatures and polyrhythmic percussion. They met up with Jes Seamans, who practiced with them a couple times when she moved back to Minneapolis from Seattle, but she thought she would somehow have more fun being in BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, so after a while the EVERYBELL people talked to Nate Holtz about how hot he is, and how he should play bass.
Nate wrote bass parts to most of the bass-playerless songs, and in March of 2003, EVERYBELL went to Catland Studios in St. Paul to record songs for the first two SAY-AND-STAY-SAID releases. This happened as part of Dan's senior design project at the Minneapolis College of Art + Design, which involved recording the songs for the records, setting up the basic framework for what would/will become SAY-AND-STAY-SAID, a million hours of design critiques, screenprinting, blind embossing and sleeve assembly, and a rock show on May 6th 2003 in the MCAD Student Center with BEST FRIENDS FOREVER and SIGNAL TO TRUST. It was the first show ever for both EVERYBELL and BFF, and despite some administrative difficulties, it went alright.
The following summer and fall, EVERYBELL kept themselves busy playing a handful of shows in basements and at parties and places like the 7th Street Entry and the Fallout, usually with BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, but sometimes with some other bands too.
Winter of 2003 and the first half of 2004 was kind of a hibernation period for EVERYBELL, with 3/4s of the band being heavily immersed in school and/or nursing broken bones. Somewhere in there, Nate started a new band called MIMOSA PELORIA with Tim, Jacob and Mark Swoverland. Eventually, Nate sort of left EVERYBELL to work more on the new band, and Jacob sort of left the new band to work on writing new EVERYBELL songs and getting things back up to speed.
During the last few months of 2004, they played a bunch of shows around Minneapolis/St. Paul and planned a winter tour that didn't actually happen (for just about every reason that a tour can not happen). EVERYBELL also played on Radio K's Off the Record show on the day after Thanksgiving and went to Chicago for a week between Christmas and New Year's Eve to record their first cd.
The recording part was done by the aforementioned Nate Kinsella, in the loft/warehouse space that he and a bunch of other people live in. It was ridiculously cold, and Nate got pretty sick, but aside from that, the whole thing went really well. The cd came out in February 2005, and is called "Everybody Wrestle." It has seven songs on it.
Photos:
• Local live shows, 2003–2008
• Summer 2007 Tour
• "Everybody Wrestle" recording session, December 2004
Discography:
"Clean (a cover of the song by the band Harbor)"
from split 7" with Wildcat Revival
To be released in 2008 on Say & Stay Said (SSS-010)
Limited to 300 copies on white vinyl / Still available
"Our Re-Sea Legs"
from "Minnesota Migration" 20-song comp. CD with the Plastic Constellations, Doomtree, Gay Beast, and more.
Released in 2008 with the help of Modern Radio
1000 pressed / OUT OF PRINT
"Everybody Wrestle"
7-song CD-EP
Released in 2005 on Say & Stay Said (SSS-006)
1000 pressed / Still available
"Song-title" b/w "Song-title"
2-song 7" record on clear vinyl
Released in 2003 on Say & Stay Said (SSS-002)
Limited to 300 copies / Still available
"There's Many a Slip Twixt Cup and a Lip"
from split 7" with Best Friends Forever
Released in 2003 on Say & Stay Said (SSS-001)
Limited to 300 copies / OUT OF PRINT
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