Spinning Jennies is tagged as: power pop, indie, college rock, under 2000 listeners, country The Spinning Jennies were one of the longest-lived bands to spring out of the California-based independent pop scene of the late 1990s, although they were based in the Bay Area, and not L.A., like most of their peers. The pop underground scene was defined by the still-running International Pop Overthrow festivals, which the Spinning Jennies played at many times. Formed in 1993, the original line up contained drummer Dave Friel, bassist Doug Free, and songwriter/guitarist/lead vocalist Jeff Shelton. While they initially sounded (and were billed as) a traditional college-rock band in the R.E.M./Hüsker Dü-vein, the band frequently and increasingly ventured towards the harder end of power-pop, with an unmistakeable similarity to The Posies and Shoes. The band gained an audience in the San Francisco area in the early years based on many shows, building an audience to support their first release, the 1995 LP “Bloom,” which was recorded on a shoestring budget. This line-up also released a follow-up in 1996 with “Pop N Serve.” In 1996, Friel departed the band and was replaced by Nick Laquintano in early 1997. The rise of the internet helped the band find a new audience well outside of the Bay Area, and 1998’s “Starstruck” began to... Read More About Spinning Jennies Biography...  Send Spinning Jennies ringtones to your cell
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