And And And is a five piece rock and roll band from Portland, Oregon. We play often aggressive yet melodic music that can be elegant at times and jarring at others. We prefer emotion over attitude. We are releasing our studio debut titled “The Failure”. The band consists of singer/guitarist Nathan Baumgartner (that’s me), drummer Bim Ditson, bassist Jonathan Sallas, guitarist Berg Radin, and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Wiggans. Here is some background information about where it came from: I wrote pretty much all of the songs on this album in the bedroom I slept in as a kid. I was (and still am) spending a great deal of time at my parent’s house in Reedsport, OR. It is pretty tight (215 acres of forest land, six miles from the coast). The circumstances that brought me back home were the primary influences on the lyrical content. I titled the album “The Failure” because that was the title I gave myself (half-jokingly, of course). My family is filled with hard-working, generally successful people who seem more concerned with my employment status than I am. I went to college, got a teaching license, and got turned down for every single one of the several hundred jobs I applied for (only 2 fucking interviews!!). I was also hot off the heels of a really shitty divorce/custody battle that dragged on for several years and traveled through several county courts (I lost of course). I could go on and on about how destructive this was to my psyche, but I’ll just let the songs tell that