Matthew Dunehoo: Vocals, Guitar

Megan Thomas: Bass, Backing Vocals, Piano

Gerry White: Drums

“Can you dig it?” asks Baby Teardrops’ lead singer and bandleader, Matthew Dunehoo, when describing his band’s uniquely layered and tapered sound. “My songs are opportunities for one idea to exist in the air with sound surrounded by a bed of, if not fancy, then functional flowers,” adds Dunehoo when explaining the trio’s affinity for streamlined yet sultry aesthetics. “Most could double as jingles for reasonably priced toothpaste.”

Baby Teardrops produces a poppy collection of songs that sound like that of a grunged out New Pornographers if they met The Pixies. These NYC rockers deliver edgy hypnotic elements and recurrent mantras, rooted with the fundamental belief of loving what was originally created and driving their songs around solid riffs. While the music is propulsive and steady, it allows for Dunehoo’s songwriting to relish in the spotlight. “I like the idea of taking a simple idea, something that exists whether we care about it or not, and glorifying it. And more than that, I love language and the magical power language possesses to cut through and open up and be foul and sexy. The possibilities are endless,” adds Dunehoo.

Originally forming in 2007, March of 2010 resolutely affirms the band’s desire to work together. All three members were previously involved in other projects that came to a halt once they reunited. “We decided it was fated that we play together no matter how hard it sometimes is,” says Dunehoo. “I demanded a band and Gerry and Megan came down the pipe direct from God and the Devil.”

In a clash of energetic synergy, Baby Teardrops is compiled of three very distinct personalities. “I’m a bitch and stupid while Matthew is sensitive and paranoid, so we work on staying calm. Gerry somehow floats in the middle of it all,” says Megan Thomas. “We are free musicians that know how to push a song without losing its hook and we’re all over the place in a way that people can’t put their finger on. I’ve never been in a band that captivates their audience as much as we do,” adds Thomas.

Where songs feel like clamoring acts of joyful noise, Matthew nods to the many feelings and sentiments when discussing those aforementioned influences: “I can’t stand the fact that we don’t know for sure what happens when we die. I understand that few if any of my feelings are unique, so what. I feel like I need to accomplish huge things.” Through it all, they’ve remained playfully humble and eager to improve and to best sum up the most important and significant feelings that one might feel. As Dunehoo describes, “This band operates by one rule: Bang others in the heart as you would like to be banged in the heart.”

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