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Bronx Cheerleader
12+ albums
indieCanadiancanadaindie rockontario
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Bronx Cheerleader is the brainchild of Scott Warren, former vocalist, guitar player and founding member of defunct Toronto indie-rockers Pope Factory. The CMJ Music Marathon Festival Guide once tagged Warren's former outfit as "smart, resonating alterna-pop" while in other circles they gained a reputation for writing difficult, quirky rock music. The dissolution of Pope Factory during the band's ill-fated 2001 U.S. Tour, from which two members of the band never returned, had lasting effects on the band's frontman. An exodus from Toronto and music in general soon followed in late 2001. Living in self-imposed exile in rural eastern Ontario, Warren didn't pick up a guitar for nearly two years. This time to reflect allowed the embattled songwriter to gain a new lease on life, music and the direction of his craft. Shedding the prog-rock trappings of his former band, Warren embraced his natural melodicism and pop sensibilities which in the past had been subverted by the sonic maelstrom of the Pope Factory sound. With new songs being penned at a brisk pace and a sense of rejuvenation afoot, a fortuitous meeting between old friends would further sow the seeds of a musical rebirth. Sauder, original drummer and founding member of Pope Factory, had parted ways with the band in 1998. In the summer of 2004, Warren happened upon his former bandmate at a Modest Mouse gig in Toronto. By the time Isaac Brock and Co. had exited the stage that night, Warren had coaxed Sauder out of retirement
