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Salon of Refuse
1+ albums
rockalternativeThe DoorsThe CureThe Beatles
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Matthew Lahm – Singer/Songwriter/Producer, Guitar, Keyboard Simona Martore – Singer/Songwriter, Guitar, Keyboard Chris Pastena – Bass Mark Pena – Guitar, Keyboard Jon Rosenbaum – Drums We are a three-guitar band with two singers (male and female), bass and drums. Our sound is full and our original songs are compositions that tend to be epic. We allude to the arena rock of the 70’s and grunge bands of the 90’s. Our most pronounced influences are The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, David Bowie, The Cure, Jane’s Addiction, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. Of these examples, a common element is visual art and aspects of theater that influence the music. We strive to maintain aesthetics in our songs, which is why our name is rooted in nineteenth century painting and sculpture. Le Salon des Refuses refers to the art gallery where impressionism was born. Emperor Napoleon III thus dubbed it because he was appalled by the work displayed there and the name is equivalent to calling it a gallery of waste. We translated the French name into English: Salon of Refuse. The art in Le Salon des Refuses was not familiarly mythological, historical or entertaining: it was human, warts and all. These artists were current, satirical, challenging and inconveniently honest. Their work both scared and captivated the public. A painting of a nude woman wasn’t pawned off as a depiction of the goddess Venus; it was of the prostitute who posed painted as herself. Our original reperto
