Hopewell

Blending "vintage fuzz pedal jams with early space rock and shoegaze" for over a decade, Hopewell's tumultuous canon is the perfect cinematic bridge between the psychedelia of nineties acts like Spiritualized and Mercury Rev and the genre's newer generation (read: Black Mountain, Serena-Maneesh). Hopewell was founded by Jason Russo of Hopewell Junction, NY who -- at 19 -- joined Mercury Rev before setting out on his own with a band named after his hometown. In 1995, seminal Detroit-based space rock label Burnt Hair Records released the band's first single. Hopewell's debut full-length, Contact, came out on Burnt Hair in 1997 and its second release, 2001's The Curved Glass (Priapus/Cuttyshark Records), led to European distribution, festival appearances and a John Peel session. After a transition period of line-up and stylistic changes, the band signed to Tee Pee Records and released Hopewell & The Birds Of Appetite, produced by Dave Fridmann of Flaming Lips fame at Tarbox Road Studios. Its follow-up, Beautiful Targets, produced by Fridmann protégé Bill Racine, was released in 2007 and the band's 2009 release, Good Good Desperation was aligned by critics with Pink Floyd's Meddle and Can's Tago Mago. An active live act, Hopewell has performed or toured with artists such as My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, Nicole Atkins, British Sea Power, The Black Angels Mike Watt and The Posies, among others.