!?
This is where shock and disbelief collides!?Genre Alternative Band Created 6/4/2009 Total Sales 276
Band Bio
You'd think that band names without letters or numbers was pretty much always taboo. Well, as it turns out, some people never really thought so. For example, take a look at Harry Stuart. A heavy proponent of modern alternative rock, Mr. Stuart, along with his lifetime friend and rock aficionado Jacob McIntyre, tried to form a band that would channel the power of rock. Stuart, a die-hard fan of more contemporary music, was a solid guitarist, capable of songwriting, but woefully incompetent as a singer. McIntyre, an addict of more classic rock, was a pedantic songwriter, yet had some talent as a pianist. But, try as they might, they could never form a legitimate band with just a guitarist and keyboards. Whether it was their demanding lives of sophomoric college partying or their hectic social lives, their musical energy was perpetually drained. Only days before giving up, our endeavoring band leaders stumbled upon the panacea to their problems: Zach Russell, the down-and-out drummer of the local high school band. Forced out of the high-school band due to an unfortunate incident concerning a car, a principal, and a reciprocating saw, Russell was renowned for his talents with the drums and his staggeringly punk rock lyrics. Upon cajoling Mr. Russell to join their cause, their dreams finally materialized as Russell's girlfriend Katie Stuart (no discernable relation to Harry), a stunning bassist and vocalist, decided to join. Stuart was a vocalist by birth and a bassist by fire, yet her talent is unequaled by many. So shocked and surprised were the initial architects, that in honor of the near spontaneous union, they named the new band !?. They've yet to figure out how to pronounce it, allowing the potential fans to create their own pronunciation.
Members:
Harry Stuart: Guitars
Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals
Zach Russell: Drums
Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals
Band Gear
This band doesn't own any gear!
Albums / EPs
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Don't Ask Me Now
Date Released: 1/20/2012
Tracks: 10 Have you ever noticed how sometimes it seems like the world has been turned upside-down? Whether life throws you soft breaking ball or a sharp curve, sometimes you just can't hit the pitch. No matter how much you try, or how much you prepare, or how much you endure, life sometimes knows just how to take the floor right out from under you. Eventually, after having the world crash down on you, what then could you do? Some people ask you to pick yourself back up, or get back up on the horse, or step back into the fire. And as nice as that is, you tell those people one thing: Don't Ask Me Now. You D.A.M.N them. Not like the typical damning, but more akin to telling people you can handle yourself even when the world is turned upside-down and starts falling down on you. Helping you get through the crazy shit in life with more shock and disbelief... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Comeback
Date Released: 11/19/2011
Tracks: 10 Mark Twain once quipped that "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". Luckily for him, he wasn't dead. As big of a joke that must have been for the esteemed American author, reports of death are not to be taken lightly. But who are we kidding? Here we are, making an album, after an absence in this music industry rivaling that of the Chicago Cubs and the World Series. However, death, like life, offers an interesting insight on humanity and society. If one purportedly dies, society does them the great (in)justice of saying what they thought of the departed, whether good, bad, or just indifferent. We've been there and done that. We've pulled a Spock and came back to life, even if not entirely the same band, or even the same people. In our disappearance, this band has seen the reaction and felt the withdrawal. Making music is a lifestyle, and dropping it because of trivial problems if hardly a reason to quit a lifestyle. So we regrouped. We got back on the saddle. We came back. Welcoming back the shock and disbelief you never knew you missed... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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OMG
Date Released: 6/8/2010
Tracks: 4 Love, they say, is some type of emotion where you lose your mind in the pursuit of satisfaction. Everyone slips into it at least once, learning that satisfaction comes only rarely, always topped off with a cherry.... Shock and disbelief on an "OMG" level.... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals The Jupiter Archives' Jackie Harrison: Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Oh, New York!
Date Released: 3/30/2010
Tracks: 12 Everywhere we look, we find that what we were looking for isn't there... it's hiding, never existed or is right in front of us. Of those things we seach for, life's reason is never one of them, but not because of you, but because of your love. Oh, New York... Another dose of shock and disbelief... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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All This and More
Date Released: 3/2/2010
Tracks: 6 Life is just a microcosm of the universe we interact with. Despite that, the reality of existence is confined within the emotions we feel. Every little thing that happens, we'll be watching all this and more. Where life, love and hate make music... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Things Stay the Same
Date Released: 2/15/2010
Tracks: 12 Breaking away is something we all do. Sometimes it's not your fault, their fault or our fault, but, occasionally it just happens. It comes about, changes everything, revealing that the more things change, the more things stay the same. A change where nothing changes... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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You, Me and Jubilee
Date Released: 1/21/2010
Tracks: 5 Introspectively, we all come across the fact we never appreciate the little things in life. We content our imagination with the mainstream and discover ourselves searching. Between you, me and jubilee, I think it's shock and disbelief. Celebrating the surprises in life we don't completely understand... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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An Abundance of Time
Date Released: 1/14/2010
Tracks: 11 Everything comes down to time. Never is it obvious, as time relishes our attempts to make sense of the world around us. Time laughs at us and makes life the enigma we know. The sixth studio album from the universe of exclamations... an abundance of time. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals The Simulations' Scott McDaniels: Sax [Track 7] Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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The Exclamations
Date Released: 11/25/2009
Tracks: 17 After five albums and five EP's, we thought that now would be the right time to sit back and look at the music we've created. There's quite a bit of it, and now we realize that everything we've done is for the love of music. Welcome to the first compilation of shock and disbelief's greatest hits. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Shadows in the Sand
Date Released: 11/6/2009
Tracks: 5 The things that frighten us the most are the things we will never experience. We burden our lives with anxieties that will never happen. We worry, but they are all shadows in the sand. The next step towards shock and disbelief... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals The Simulations' Scott McDaniels: Sax [Track 3] Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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The Underdogs
Date Released: 10/24/2009
Tracks: 11 Most people would never realize it, but the parallels between what they know and what they want is startlingly similar. Although what they want is always more difficult to achieve... except now. Welcome to The Underdogs... the fifth studio album of !?. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals The Simulations' Scott McDaniels: Sax [Track 7] Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Spatial Lies
Date Released: 10/3/2009
Tracks: 6 We think back and, quite often, laugh. Everything we did as kids is funnier now than it was years ago. All the jokes and the memories, all the smiles and the tears. All in all, they were the things that kept the universe running. Another album in the world of shock and disbelief... Spatial Lies. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Into the Mainstream
Date Released: 9/23/2009
Tracks: 13 More often than not, you speculate. Generally it's about simple things or superficial worries. Never does it delve into the realities of life and the enigmas of existence. You never wonder why we love or why we think; we merely do. But it's time. Welcome to our forth studio album... Into the Mainstream. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Casualty of Society
Date Released: 9/1/2009
Tracks: 6 Not much every is obvious. Quite a bit of life is something that you never notice. It is fleeting, subatomic, or macrocosmic. It cruises above our head, never for us to notice. That's life. A new piece in the music of !?, here is a "Casualty of Society." Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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When It Rains...
Date Released: 8/6/2009
Tracks: 10 There are those days where you wonder why... why me?... why now?... why her?... why?... Eventually, someone gives you an answer. It might not be what you want, but you figure out a bit more concerning life. Welcome to another studio album by !?. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals The Simulations' Scott McDaniels: Sax [Track 6] Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Everything That Has An End...
Date Released: 7/31/2009
Tracks: 6 We all understand that life is a mess. Life is pervasive, and it is an enigma... but at the same time, wonderfully present. Never does it make sense, because that isn't life. Welcome to a new EP by !?. Enjoy. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Somewhere Over Tomorrow
Date Released: 7/5/2009
Tracks: 14 It's life. Every day of every week of every month of every year. The monotony is saddening and the pain is dubious. But eventually, we find that world... somewhere over tomorrow. Welcome to the second album of !?. We are back and ready to change the world. One song at a time. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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Hmm...
Date Released: 6/16/2009
Tracks: 6 Hmm... Well, we're back. And it's time for our first EP. With a startling shock of eclectic musics, !? is running to bring a new phrase to shock and disbelief. Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
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!?
Date Released: 6/4/2009
Tracks: 14 After the inception of !?, we've decided to naturally make our first studio album. Bordering on power pop, this first spectacle of shock and disbelief is a true fusion of old school classic rock, modern pop and a smattering of hard alternative. We have some high expectations for this album... Harry Stuart: Guitars Jacob McIntyre: Piano, Additional Vocals Zach Russell: Drums Katie Stuart: Bass, Vocals Produced by 8577th Street Cafe Records Edited by Herbert Nickerson |
Offical Band News
| Reports of our death... | 11/19/2011 |
| OMG!? | 6/8/2010 |
| Oh, New York! | 3/30/2010 |