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Tennis and The Mennonites
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Members
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Jerstin Crosby
Stuart Cullinan
Kyle Long

Biography
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Tennis and The Mennonites is the bizarre union of Jerstin Crosby and rotating cast of characters known as the Mennonites that come together in the humble town of Raleigh, NC. The band's first release, an EP entitled "Wicked Man", is based around Crosby's folk-meets-punk style songwriting and is a perfect example of how the band tends to materialize: form meets chaos. The EP features members of The Honored Guests and Pleasant, including Andrew Kinghorn of The Guests on drums and Maria Albani of Pleasant on bass. "Wicked Man's" release saw favorable reviews and was added to local college radio.

Immediatley after the release of the EP, Stuart Cullinan joined the band full time on the drums and Kinghorn moved to the role of guitar and producer. Tennis have been busy ever since and have shared the stage with such acts as Superchunk (Merge), Rogue Wave (SubPop), The Honored Guests (Breakfast Mascot), Mazarin (I and Ear), The Rosebuds (Merge), I am the World trade Center (Gammon) and Micah P. Hinson (Jade Tree) whiling touring the East Coast.

The band released their first full length album, the aptly titled "Quilt Noise", on October 7th, 2006, and plans to continue touring throughout the rest of 2007 with newest Mennonite, Kyle Long on bass. "Quilt Noise" is an 18-track album of songs from 3 different studios, 3 different producers, 7 band members, and a ridiculous amount of instruments and ideas. The album is available in select stores and online on Breakfast Mascot Records.





Right Now
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Touring in support of Quilt Noise.

Press
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  • Independent Weekly Grayson Currin
    "...It's a tag-team battle against time and loneliness, and every time Crosby feels like he's winning--as on the brilliant "Magnets," where he celebrates the line 'It's you and me/ and that's the way it's been for a long time'--things fall apart..."
  • Ear Farm
    "...As it stands, the timing works out well because their blend of acoustic singer-songwriter pop stuff mixed with plugged in indie-rock sounds really nice in the early summer sun..."
  • TriangleRock.com Ross Grady
    "...Tennis & the Mennonites have a brand-new album out; it's 18 songs in about 45 minutes, and it includes most of the hits from their earlier limited-release EP, including "Magnets," which is a Perfect Song. Most bands never get to write a Perfect Song, so even if T&theM spent the rest of their careers doing Mariah Carey covers, they'd still be ahead of the game..."
  • Philadelphia Weekly Doug Wallen
    "...Their 18-song debut Quilt Noise could be the love child of Wolfie and Small Factory, although the blogs’ll just say Tapes ’N’ Tapes. Multi-instrumentalist Jerstin Crosby’s creaky singing and grabby lyrics are pleasingly strange..."

Discography
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Quilt Noise
2006

Wicked Man
2005

Downloads
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  • I Want My Cake / Quilt Noise
    [download]

More Info
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