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QRO climbs tall buildings to have its spotlight again fly over Jones Street Station.

Name: Jones Street Station

Former name(s): Jones Street Boys

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Members: Jonathan Benedict, Danny Ecker, Jon Hull, Sam Rockwell, Walt Wells

Albums: Overcome (2007), In Verses (2009)

If the band was an animal, they'd be: a bald eagle nesting atop a tall building beneath a JFK-LAX jet

Or if they were a food, they'd be: as American as apple pie

What about a piece of furniture?: the kitchen table cabinet

Jones Street StationRelated Articles:

Photo gallery of Jones Street Station (as Jones Street Boys) at their monthly show at Housing Works Used Book Café in New York, NY on September 5th, 2008

Live review from Town Hall in New York, NY on February 25th, 2009

Photo gallery from Town Hall

Interview with Jones Street Station

Review of In Verses

Live review from Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, NY on August 7th, 2009

Photo gallery from Prospect Park Bandshell

Tour dates:

2/5/10 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
3/27/10 - North Adams, MA - MASS MoCA
4/28/10 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall in Williamsburg*

* w/ Deadbeat Darling

 

MP3 Stream: "Slow Lights"
  

 

Jones Street Station playing "Oh Victoria" live @ Prospect Park Bandshell:


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