Cosmostanza is noise pop band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After casually playing together since grade school, guitarist Maxwell Moore and drummer Raney Aboud started their first official band during their junior year of high school. Inspired by two piece powerhouses such as JEFF the Brotherhood and Japandroids, Cosmostanza was formed in 2012. The band wrote and recorded their first EP, Rad Vibes, within the first six months of their career. Soon after, Cosmostanza started playing shows regularly in the Oklahoma City area. Early songs by the group on Rad Vibes and its follow up “CHAMPS” have a healthy mix of youth and fuzzed out punk, delivering the garage rock sound that the group was known for in the early months of their career. Songs such as “Never Cool” and “Teenage Waste” beam with energy that evokes a desire to mosh and sing along. Over the next two years the band would become a staple of the DIY punk scene in Okl...
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Cosmostanza is noise pop band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. After casually playing together since grade school, guitarist Maxwell Moore and drummer Raney Aboud started their first official band during their junior year of high school. Inspired by two piece powerhouses such as JEFF the Brotherhood and Japandroids, Cosmostanza was formed in 2012. The band wrote and recorded their first EP, Rad Vibes, within the first six months of their career. Soon after, Cosmostanza started playing shows regularly in the Oklahoma City area. Early songs by the group on Rad Vibes and its follow up “CHAMPS” have a healthy mix of youth and fuzzed out punk, delivering the garage rock sound that the group was known for in the early months of their career. Songs such as “Never Cool” and “Teenage Waste” beam with energy that evokes a desire to mosh and sing along. Over the next two years the band would become a staple of the DIY punk scene in Oklahoma City, playing in thrift stores, house shows, skate parks, coffee shops, and anywhere that would let them be loud. The band also started opening for touring acts such as Diarrhea Planet, Twin Peaks, Nobunny, Ceremony, Alex G, Cosmonauts, White Mystery, So So Glos, Natural Child, and more.
In the fall of 2013, Aboud and Moore moved into a dorm together for their freshman year of college at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK. The dorm setting inspired their third EP, entitled “College Dayze”, released in 2014 on Coffin Boner Records. The duo recorded with Oklahoma City producer Connor Schmigle (Tonne) to create the record. This effort was their noisiest yet, but showed clear signs of development in terms of songwriting, delivering more mature compositions. Opener “Sunglass Sweat” is a garage-rock summer anthem featuring lyrics about swimming pools and late night hangouts over distorted guitar and feedback. Closing track “Coyote” ends with a wall of noise, howling, shouting, and pure energy while Moore repeats, “you keep me up / and put me down”. Over the next year, Moore and Aboud took a small break from writing to focus on their school work. In 2015, the band played Norman Music Festival for their third year in a row, and embarked on their first tour across Texas with garage rock band The Pizza Thieves.
2016 brings major changes to Cosmostanza. The band is no longer a duo, as guitarist Brodie Lockett has joined the band. Filling the role of lead guitarist, Lockett brings a new layer of melody and variety not found on past recordings, adding a sense of clarity to Moore and Aboud’s notorious wall of sound. The band is currently writing new material for their first full-length record, pushing their sound in a noise-pop direction. In March the band will be attending Austin’s SXSW music festival and playing shows regularly through out Oklahoma again. A new single is planned for release in spring of 2016.
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