The Swear

A brief History :

In just one year, The Swear has become one of the biggest buzz bands in the Southeast. The group formed in Atlanta in 2004 , as writer/vocalist/guitarist Elizabeth Elkins joined forces with drummer Kent Aberle, bass player Kevin Williams and writer/guitarist Jeremy Zamora. The Swear quickly developed a large popular and critical fan base, all drawn to the band's angular, hooky rock songs, unique lyricism and incredibly intense live shows. The band's debut CD, Every Trick's A Good One (released locally in November 2005), was named one of the Best Albums of 2005 by Georgia Music Magazine, Creative Loafing and The UK Street Voice. Produced by Russ-T Cobb at Butch Walker's Ruby Red Productions and mastered by Howie Weinberg, the six-song album underlines the punk-rock power and pop songwriting gifts of the quartet. The Swear's cathartic live performances have already earned the band spots on the Vans Warped Tour, Warped's Girlz Garage Tour and at Atlanta's Music Midtown. Recently Kent left and was replaced by young Drummer.....Hot-shot Jerod .....we are very happy to have him aboard !!!
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Fall 2007 ; by Syklar Reeves UPCOMING SHOWS : 9/6/2007 Thursday ATLANTA, GA 10 High 816 North Highland Avenue Atlanta, GA 30306 Concrete Blonde Tribute 21+ 9/17/2007 Monday LAWRENCEVILLE, GA Luby's 1098 Herrington Road Lawrenceville, GA 30044 Elizabeth solo w/Brad Cox 18+ 9/22/2007 Saturday ASHEVILLE, NC Fred's Speakeasy 122 College Street Asheville, NC 28801 $5 21+ 10/12/2007 Friday CHATTANOOGA, TN Club Fathom 412 Market Street Chattanooga, TN 37402 All ages 10/21/2007 Sunday NASHVILLE, TN The Bluebird Cafe 4104 Hillsboro Road Nashville, TN 37215 615-383-1461 Free Elizabeth solo at The Bluebird Cafe's Writers Night - All ages 10/22/2007 Monday NASHVILLE, TN Mercy Lounge 1 Cannery Row Nashville, TN 37203 A BMI "8 off 8th" showcase 21+ 11/9/2007 Friday BROOKLYN, NY Trash Bar 256 Grand Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 21+ 11/10/2007 Saturday NEW YORK, NY Location TBA New York, NY 10001 Free Acoustic in-store - All ages 11/10/2007 Saturday NEW YORK, NY Snitch 59 West 21st Street New York, NY 10010 212-727-7775 21+ An impressive Portfolio John Lennon Songwriting Contest Grand Prize Winner ++ International Songwriting Competition Finalist and Honorable Mention ++ The UK Singer/Songwriter Awards Runner-up ++ BMI's "8 off 8th" showcase artist (Nashville) ++ Chosen by Billboard Magazine two years in a row as one of the top six independent artists in the South (for the Discmakers Independent Music World Series) ++ Taste of Chaos/MySpace Finalist for the Taste of Chaos Tour ++ Movie Tunes Indie 101 Featured Artist in Atlanta, NYC and LA ++ Arizona Jeans Radio Free Arizona Featured Artist ++ Top 50 Qualifier in the American Music Awards presents the Coca-Cola New Music Award ++ Ernie Ball Battle of the Bands 7 Finalist ++ Featured/Spotlight Artist on XM Radio, Sonicbids.com, Garageband.com, Buzzplay.com, NumberOneMusic.com and FreshTracksMusic.com ++ "Deadfall" demo charted in the Top 20 on FMQB, Clear Channel's The Album Network and UNCLE commercial specialty show playlists



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• VICTORIES ---------
  
• Music on The WB, FOX, ABC, FX, TNT, The Discovery Channel and MTV
• Played the Vans Warped Tour and Music Midtown
• Grand Prize Winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (rock category)
• Charted in the Top 20 on FMQB, The Album Network and UNCLE commercial specialty show playlists with "Deadfall"
• Endorsed by Gretsch Guitars, Gibson Musical Instruments, GHS Strings, George L's Cables, Marshall Amplification, Pork Pie Drums, Pro-mark Drumsticks and Meinl Cymbals

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Check out some recent press:
"Sometimes ya just dig a good pop song where the guitarists are punching and jabbing through the melody and groove in a way that truly lifts things up. In this regard, Elizabeth Elkins and Jeremy Zamora are rock warriors with total command of meaty riffs, feedback swells, dynamics, and churning, crunching chords."
-Guitar Player

"Top Music Pick of the Day. The Swear is Atlanta's equivalent of Nashville's own Luna Halo and Ligion, the guyliner-doused, local stalwart heavy riffers whose taut crunch and hooky howling has them well set up for a mainstream-radio future. Tracks like 'Chicago' and 'January' stand on a trad, concise but attitude-driven riff-rock foundation, singer Elizabeth Elkins offering a sliver of Distillers snarl doused in a bucket of '80s-prog vibrato."
-The Nashville Tennessean

"One of the top indie records of the year. A trend we'd like to see is Atlanta getting one of its many stalwart rock bands - Second Shift, The Whigs and The Swear come to mind - into the upper reaches of the charts. The Swear is terrific. Memorable guitar riffs and a thundering rhythm section careen behind Elizabeth Elkins' forceful vocals. The songs paint vivid portraits of envy, jealousy and the things we do for love and lust."
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"One of the year's Top 25 albums. Solid, scorching and sensual. So much power and ferocity...there's more emotion on this collection than a half-dozen major label releases from new, inferior bands. A breathless and mournful good time."
-Georgia Music Magazine

"One of the year's Top 17 albums (also featured in the Best of Atlanta 2006). A combustible presence."
-Creative Loafing

"One of the Top 10 albums of the year. Wicked."
-Punk Globe (UK)

"Although, at first glance, they appear to be in a niche akin to The Sex Pistols, they are, in fact, a sensible bunch of instrumentalists with as much flare for song as any Nashville staffer. Everything about them screams loud but they are not noisy and could pull off an MTV Unplugged as gracefully as Nirvana."
-Lior Shamir, We Are Listening (UK)

"The Swear write some of the best songs in rock today."
-Aaron Hickman, Project 961 FM, Atlanta

"It's dark, it's real and it hits home. Elizabeth Elkins is a top songwriter on the verge of big things."
-Lollapalooza promoter Kip Schaumloffel, Chicago

"Number 47 on the Atlanta "It" List (joining Outkast, Sugarland, Ludacris and TI as the only musical acts on the list). This quartet turns out smart, catchy rock songs, as they proved on their punchy debut CD. Elizabeth Elkins nails down her tough-girl stance like a 21st-century Suzi Quatro; her slightly frayed delivery lends an extra note of authenticity to the memorable chorus of 'The Sleep Inside,' which favorably recalls Liz Phair's accessibly edgy moments. Jeremy Zamora confidently peels off sharp, catchy riffs, offsetting the radio-friendly polish of 'Last Breath'."
-The Sunday Paper

"It was less than a full song into The Swear's show opening for The Subways before I was sending off text messages to friends in other states reading 'I've found the new Brody Dalle'. If you've ever been a fan of a song, only to delve into it later and find that the lyrics and melody continue to come back to haunt you, you've found a new band to obsess on. 'January' has been that to me. It's one of those choruses made for nights when the rain literally saps the light from outside."
-Resonator Magazine

"Elizabeth Elkins is a force whose delivery and lyrics on songs like 'The Sleep Inside', 'January' and 'Deadfall' are as good as anyone in the rock game today."
-Earvolution.com

"The Swear's ballsy debut album hits with a mega-ton blast of guitar, drums, and Elkins' razor-edged vocals. Rough, demanding and alternately soothing and antagonistic, The Swear is unapologetically rock and roll, and Every Trick's A Good One is their declaration of such."
-Performer Magazine

"Thank God there is a rock band in town with enough balls to act like a rock band should. And it took a woman to do it. The Swear is fronted by Elizabeth Elkins, the no bullshit queen of the Atlanta scene. With vocals falling somewhere between Love and Stefani, Elkins leaves the Prada and the Prozac out in favor of the rock."
-Civilian Magazine

"Catchy, angular rock. The ferocious quartet is a heavy-handed punch in the gut and rocks much harder than many of the so-called 'heavy' bands on the map today."
-Flagpole

"Punky smashchords and Elizabeth Elkins' growl evoke the immortal Joan Jett."
-Macon Telegraph
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You may have heard The Swear on these TV shows:
Smallville (The CW), Rescue Me (FX), Roswell (The WB), Reunion (FOX), Life As We Know It (ABC), Wanted (TNT), Outward Bound (The Discovery Channel), various MTV programs, UPN Atlanta, Comcast On Demand and YouTube's most-watched web series, Lonelygirl15.

In these films:
Surreal (2007 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival), The Delivery Boy Chronicles, Cross Country and By Chance.

And live on these stages (partial list):
Vans Warped Tour, Music Midtown, The Grammy Block Party, Arlene's Grocery (NYC), Snitch (NYC), Exit/In (Nashville), Gaylord Arena (Nashville), Mercy Lounge (Nashville), Bluebird Cafe (Nashville), Georgia Theater (Athens), Jack Rabbits (Jacksonville), A1A Music Hall (Lexington), Blue Cats (Knoxville), The Handlebar (Greenville), The Masquerade (Atlanta), The Roxy (Atlanta), The Loft (Atlanta), The Nick (Birmingham), The Vault (Columbus) with bands such as Foo Fighters, The Living End, Bowling for Soup, Crossfade, Paramore, Courtney Love, Concrete Blonde and The Subways

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WHERE TO GET THE CD!!!

You can order the CD directly from The Swear at www.theswear.com:

Every Trick's A Good One is also available for download on iTunes worldwide (USA, European Union/UK, Japan, Australia and Canada), Real Rhapsody, Napster, MusicNet, eMusic and Sony Connect.

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