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The Sexy Accident play "forceful, even fiery power-pop" "driven by catchy melodies and smart, real-life lyric writing." (The Big Takeover) The band are from Kansas City, Missouri.

Their latest EP, Now That She's Gone, is "a smart, catchy, fulfilling course" (The Pitch) that reveals "a self-contained world of cheating and leaving lovers" (Erasing Clouds). Mantoloking, the band's 2009 full-length produced by legendary Seattle producer Steve Fisk, "addresses the noticeable failings of leaders, family, friendship, and love" and "proffers raw lyrics and bitter memories with aching honesty" (Present Magazine)

At all times, Jesse Kates, the band's singer and guitarist, writes lyrics that "are detailed, seem carefully crafted, and reflect circumstances from life as we know it." (Erasing Clouds) and "sings with a devotion and sensitivity that's sometimes surprising." (The Big Takeover)

In the past, the band have been accused of "evok[ing] the new-wave songwriters of the '80s, clean-cut pop artists like Marshall Crenshaw, Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello" and have been called the midwest's "regional answer to the Fountains of Wayne." (Ink KC)

press photo 1 . press photo 2 | shots by Sam Eubank


Lineups

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Aug 2011Jesse Kates, Daniel Torrence, Camry Ivory, Michael Young
June 2010Jesse Kates, Daniel Torrence, Camry Ivory, Mark Hamblin
Dec 2009Jesse Kates, Daniel Torrence, Chad Toney, Camry Ivory, Jon Smithview
Jan 2009Jesse Kates, Daniel Torrence, Chad Toney, Pat Padgettview
June 2008Jesse Kates, Pat Fent, Daniel Torrence, Chad Toney
Nov 2007Jesse Kates, Pat Fent, Daniel Torrenceview
April 2007Jesse Kates, Doug Chandler, Pat Fentview
April 2006Jesse Kates, Clay Vernon, Doug Chandler
Oct 2005Jesse Kates, Billy Brown, Clay Vernon
May 2005Jesse Kates, Billy Brown, Dan Wellerview

all shots in table above by Forester Michael




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