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O'Brien's, Allston, MA All photos by Kendall Smith

15 years later, a new release. Hear the Titles are Important compilation here:

https://thestairs.bandcamp.com/album/titles-are-important

More photos: bitly.com/3ipXOiF

#The Stairs #Allston #Band #Final Show #Concert Pics

14 track album

15 years after their final show, The Stairs return! All 4 (!) songwriters in the band got together and selected 15 unreleased songs to build a posthumous kind of record. It's called Titles Are Important; it's exclusive to Bandcamp and proceeds will go to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Dive into Titles Are Important!

#The Stairs #Titles Are Important #Bandcamp

I'm You by Hallelujah The Hills Ever since his rowdy DIY debut as Stairs, Ryan Walsh of Hallelujah the Hills has seemed like one of rock and roll’s best kept secrets, a hangdog poet of full-throated...

"Ever since his rowdy DIY debut as Stairs, Ryan Walsh of Hallelujah the Hills has seemed like one of rock and roll’s best kept secrets."

Any review that has heard of and references The Stairs is a review that you can trust. Thx Dusted Magazine !

#The Stairs #Hallelujah The Hills #Dusted Magazine

*I know that this is long and not the type of content recipients of this newsletter have come to expect, but please indulge me as I felt compelled to write at length about my favorite songwriter, Davi...

“Ryan H. Walsh, as true a Joos fan as there ever was, beat me to the punch when he and his friends recorded a song-for-song cover of the album in 2002. He even presented it to Berman as a gift.”

#david berman #silver jews #the natural bridge

A playlist featuring The Stairs

Huzzah! The complete Stairs discography is up on Spotify and all the digital platforms for the first time ever!

#The Stairs #Dedham #Spotify

Jamaica Plain is dreamy in the rain. The gray sky in late summer accentuates the greens and blues of Jamaica Pond. The white and red brick apartments across Jamaicaway loom over the pond with a gentle confidence. Most of them are three story buildings with pretty balconies; shades of indigo and…

OMG a new story with multiple paragraphs dedicated to The Stairs?!

“We asked for ten grand to make an album of original songs, and any Dedham musician that wants to play on it can. We recorded a marching band, a church choir… kids made the artwork in schools. It started as an excuse for me to get enough money to start a band. My friend Evan and I literally walked into a Guitar Center with four grand and said ‘What do you need to be a band?’”

#indie features #the stairs #dedham #boston

10 track album

Here’s a 2002 song for song cover of The Silver Jews' The Natural Bridge album by members of The Stairs. Recorded at 1200 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, MA in two days. An experiment and a tribute, we had fun making this but don't think it stands up. Only listen if curious and a huge fan of the original. You have been warned.

This album released in conjunction with this piece over at Stereogum.

#The Stairs #Dedham #Silver Jews #Unnatural Bridge #The Natural Bridge

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As The Stairs started to perform out after years of just working on one album in our apartments, I wanted to sometimes distort my voice live, but didn’t know how I could do it. I had never heard of a vocal pedal before.

So I built this hat.

When I wanted the distorted voice, I’d crouch down a little and position the top of the hat, where the speaker was, in front of the microphone. It was a little toy distortion machine I got at Toys R Us. It was absolutely ridiculous, but it kind of worked.

This photo is from 2004 when The Stairs opened for Okkervil River at The Middle East Club.

Boston-bred musicians such as Tanya Donelly, Bill Janovitz, Kay Hanley, and Brian Viglione riff on what made T.T. the Bear’s Place so special.

Look at that! A Stairs story in 2015? Yes indeed.

#the stairs #boston #ttthebears

Photos from June 2013's Stairs reunion.

#the stairs #allston #reunion #indie

A clip of "Whacked Pretty Hard In The Mystery Department" live from The Stairs reunion this past June.

#the stairs

I Wanna Be Your Man

Here's a never before heard outtake from The Stairs' final album.

The dudes all arrive tomorrow. We'll rehearse for three days and then it's rock and roll time!

#the stairs

IT HAPPENS THIS SATURDAY!

Giant With A Jinx is here! It's the online premiere of The Stairs Documentary from 2003. 45 minutes. Rated PG-13

"Few bands can claim to be born because of a lawsuit settlement with a local cable operator, but that's indeed the case for The Stairs." - Well Rounded Radio

What year is it? Who's the president? I'm making Stairs posters again?

First practice in seven years went pretty damn well, considering. Also, we found this banner someone made us once.

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