SiMent Milford, Connecticut
Formidable power-pop band SiMent formed in Milford, CT in 1995 with Dave Novak, Ralph Thompson and Brian McGarry. In 1997,
Jason Weaver completed the lineup.
After a nine-year hiatus, SiMent emerged in 2013 to write a new album as a fundraising effort for Brian McGarry's memorial educational fund. "Names" dropped in early 2014, followed by the 2017 EP "Sonata for Six Hands (Donuts for Dinner)".
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SiMent recommends:
This Is Vitamin Tramp
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Dave and Ralph's never-ending side-project, Vitamin Tramp. Three full length albums of power/indie/folk-pop that take SiMent's sound and take it sideways and backwards. Hardly ever forward, though.
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