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Why They're So Antifolk? More at: TFSP
The world's foremost indy-vaudville conceptual
art-rock political traveling family slideshow pop band
is proud to be under the far reaching umbrella that is
Antifolk.
Jason Trachtenburg started his long and winding
musical journey in 1988 in the East Village. His first
booked gig was at the Chameleon Club, booked by Lach.
Jason Trachtenburg then went on a life long journey
towards Chordsville in search of pleasing musical
patterns and lyrical double entendres.
The 1990's were spent in Seattle, Washington (the
new Liverpool?) where Jason Trachtenburg could often
be spotted at open mics, anti-cellular phone
mobilization gatherings, and health food stores.1993
also marked the birth of Jason Trachtenburg and Tina
Pina's one and only daughter, Rachel Trachtenburg.
Jason Trachtenburg opened up many shows for the
multi-platinum selling band the Presidents of the
United States of America. Chris Ballew of the P.U.S.A.
produced all of Jason Trachtenburg's 1990's recordings
including "Revolutions Per Minute" (2000 Orange
Recordings) and "Your Favorite Song" (2006 Ghosttown
Manitoba.) and Vintage Slide Collections from Seattle,
Vol 1 (2003 Bar None.)
In 2000, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow
Players came into existence as a need to perpetuate
multi-media music. The concept is as follows. The
T.F.S.P. travel to estate sales, garage sales, rummage
sales, flea markets, etc. and procure vintage slide
collections from anonymous deceased strangers and
proceed to transform these newly discovered images
into pop-rock musical exposes that tell the story of
these lives while simultaneously analyzing the
excesses of our overwhelming consumerist culture.
(Otherwise, we are a regular pop-rock band.)
The T.F.S.P. have traveled the globe in
performance endeavors. They have performed on Late
Night with Conan O'Brian and have appeared on MTV,
VH1, Fuse, and the Sundance Channel. The band has been
featured in countless local and national publications
and still has the distinction of being the highest
charting slideshow band on the C.M.J.charts (# 79 in
Nov. 2003.)
The Band
Jason Trachtenburg-Guitar, Piano, Vocals.
Tina Pina Trachtenburg-Slide Projector,
Design, Vocals
Rachel Trachtenburg-Drums, Ukulele, Vocals.
"The Andy Warhols of the underground."
MTV News
"The most important band in the world."
Pitchfork
"The most talked about band of the new milenium."
N.Y. Post
10 Stars **********
N.M.E.
"The Greatest Band on Earth."
Veg News
"Antifolk is inherently political by it's very nature.
If music does not have meaning(s) then what ??
Voting doesn't work anymore, so all we have left is
art. Music and politics go together like rice and
beans. Antifolk allows songwriters complete freedom
to change the world in ways that the medium (pop
songs) can. I am consistently influenced and
entertained by whoever the new crop of Monday night
superstars are.
It will all come out in my autobiography."- Jason Trachtenburg