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KRIS CANNING (bass) Kris spends about eight hours a day producing one of those interiordecorating shows for cable TV. She has toured with Beck, Hot Tuna, Pram, and Kyuss in variouscapacities. In her spare time she plants tomatoes, welds metal, occasionally performs with an AliceCooperesque mime troupe, and is one half of the Pale Ryders.

DONNA COPPOLA (keyboards, tambourine). Donna tries to be in two bands at all times. (It used tobe The Dormouse Choir and Papas Fritas; now it's Bedroom Walls and The Faraway Places.) She isalso a cook (stews are her specialty). And although she once spent 30 consecutive hours pickingrice off the floor grain by grain in the name of art, she really likes to party.

ADAM GOLDMAN (guitar, vocals, songs) Rick Nielsen once accused Adam of stalking him, but it wasonly half true. Adam made a funny little documentary about Mark Twain's estate, which screenedat L.A. Film Forum, Other Cinema in San Francisco, Robert Beck in New York, and other venuesfriendly to boring films. He also scores adult videos under the name Chuck Bronco.VANESSA KAUFMAN (drums) In her spare time, Vanessa writes music and reminisces about the timeDavid Lee Roth bought her drinks at a strip club in Hollywood. (True story!) She played drums invarious bands in Austin, Texas, and spent some time performing on the stand-up comedy circuit.Sadly, she is no longer funny. Since acquiring a satellite dish, Vanessa has not left the house at all.

JEFF KWONG (guitar, glockenspiel) When asked to describe himself, Jeff offers this: "Sexy. Chinese."

AURISHA SMOLARSKI (violin, Rhodes electric piano, vocals) Aurisha is one of those annoyingAngelenos with neither a car nor a cell phone. She can often be spotted riding her bike aroundHollywood, violin strapped to her back. (Have we mentioned that she's Berklee-trained?) When notburdening the rest of the group with rides to band practice, she is booking shows for El Cid and ZenSushi in Silver Lake.

MELISSA "SISSY" THORNE (vocals, glockenspiel, tambourine) Melissa has a shadow career as a well-regarded painter whose work has shown internationally. When not preoccupied with her obsessivelyintricate renderings of patterns, she can be found planting trees with "the kids" or teaching painting atCalArts, USC, Scripps or Otis. When not distracted, Melissa goes to bed incredibly early.

Bedroom Walls

Hailed as "the next breakout group from Los Angeles" by the SF Bay Guardian, BEDROOM WALLSenchant fans with a voluptuous sound they call ROMANTICORE. Armed with a narcotic grace and abone-dry sense of humor, the band's songs aim to instruct listeners in the proper use of melancholy.The L.A. WEEKLY says: "Music has to be liked a bit too much. Bedroom Walls make that easy, play-ing songs with awkward perfection. It's shamelessly melodic, kind of ambient, kind of spaced-out,surprisingly clever. It's like your little sister on drugs, insouciant and a bit off-the-wall." Or, as Bed-room Walls told the LOS ANGELES TIMES, "We just want to make people sad."

The band's debut, I SAW YOU COMING BACK TO ME, earned praise for its stunning textures, shim-mering melodies, and dark wit from the likes of ROLLING STONE, THE VILLAGE VOICE, and THEBOSTON PHOENIX. Coming in Spring 2006 is their breathtaking sophomore album, ALL GOODDREAMERS PASS THIS WAY. Produced by Rafter Roberts (Sufjan Stevens, Fiery Furnaces, BlackHeart Procession, Castanets) and mixed by Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, Hole, U2, Rufus Wainwright, ClemSnide, American Music Club, Journey), the record finds Bedroom Walls indulging both its melodic giftsand its love of ornate instrumentation. Songwriter Adam Goldman says he was attempting to capturethe epic schizophrenia of his high school mix tapes: "When you're a kid in the suburbs, you just lovewhat you love without thinking too hard about classifications or sub-genres. So, I would make myselfthese mix tapes with a Squeeze song followed by a Pink Floyd song, followed by a Smiths song followedby Zeppelin. I found one of these tapes when we were starting to arrange this record and I was struckby the crazy internal logic of it. I wanted to get all of that – the anglo-pop of Squeeze, the mythic pre-tensions of Led Zeppelin, the druggy bombast of Floyd, the teenage narcissism of the Smiths."

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