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Hometown	New York, NY
Genres	Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Band Members	Band Dudes: Trevor Potts, Joe Mangan, Matthew Churchill... » more
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Upcoming Shows	None

Contact Information:	Manager Shadan Azali shadan@reddirectors.com (646) 354-8520
# Years Experience Performing Live:	10
# Live Perfomances Past Six-months:	6
Market Draw:	Yes: 151-200
Venue History:	The Mercury Lounge - New York, NY Brooklyn Bowl - Brooklyn, NY Arlene's Grocery - New York, NY Irving Plaza - New York, NY
Opener Experience:	Cobra Starship; B52s
Performing Rights Society:	ASCAP
Discography:	Bathrobe Tuesday EP—2011; Wave it In LP—2009; Commanding Heights LP—2007

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Red Directors

Formed in 2007, RED DIRECTORS were recently selected by MTV as one of the top 3 breakout bands in New York City. RED DIRECTORS is a collage of rock, pop, punk, electro, garage and epic song writing. With their wide range of style, timeless...

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Reached 9th in Best of Pop chart in 2011. In the top 20 for 5 weeks.

April 2010 Indie Pop

August 2009 MTV VMA Best Breakout NYC

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Red Directors in Top 20 for 5 weeks. by
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Latest Release by RadioIndy
If you like pop/rock with bigger-than-life hooks and sing-along choruses that stick with you long after the last note has drifted off into the night then, Red Directors, delivers the goods on their latest CD, “Wave It In,” a ten song collection of highly polished power pop gems. “After Sunday” kicks things off with its infectious, era-spanning sense of melody and drive. It’s only one of several highlights though. “Been Around” and “Pretty Good Odds” demonstrate the band’s ballads are no less formidable than their best rockers, despite such defining up tempo performances as “Naked in the Kitchen” and “Woken Eye.” Elsewhere, they more than ably show they can cover that middle ground between rocker and ballad too, offering up the terrific “Spin” and the endearing “Amazing,” each with the same post-Beatles flourish that infuses the entire CD. With such a solid multi-format, pop/rock approach to their sound the “Wave It In” CD by Red Directors is sure to please across generation lines, a tribute to their talent as well as their influences.

Red Directors in Top 20 for 5 weeks. by
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Carbon Life Video Featured on Million Watts of Sou by
This video is crazy, but the song is freakin' awesome!

Red Directors named as MTV's top 3 Breakout bands by
VMA weekend kicked off this past Friday night as the finalists for the MTV Best Breakout NYC battled it out on stage at The Fillmore at Irving Plaza. Local favorites The Shells, Red Directors and MeTalkPretty performed two songs each in the hopes of impressing MTV, FeFe Dobson, Alex Suarez (Cobra Starship) as well as hundreds of rabid (and many sign-wielding) fans who together would award one of them the winner of a competition that originated on OurStage.com. The excitement reverberated through the venue as fans boisterously cheered their favorite artist on. Along with the frenetic came sobering moments- specifically when the finalists each received feedback on their performance moments after playing their last note. Although the comments from the judges (seated in The Fillmore VIP balcony) were generally positive, these industry vets were not afraid to identify poor song choices or the need to improve stage presence for some of these emerging artists. With the stage still warm, one act showed that they were ready to take their careers to the next level as judges and the majority of fans crowned the hardworking quartet, MeTalkPretty, the evening’s winner. Congratulations to all the bands who participated in the regional Best Breakout Artists contests held nation wide. -KB

HOT TRACKS - 4 STARS!! by
We start on Sunday and within the span of 10 tracks end on Tuesday. The Red Directors sure do like the days of the week on their album, Wave it In. With a distinctly west coast sounding guitar sound with New York, East Village vocals they are non pretentious indie rock. It’s accessible, pleasing to the ears if you will. This album is fun. It’s very light and doesn’t drag on and on. It starts right with “After Sunday” and ends on the right note (and the right time) with “142 (on a Tuesday).” It has the right amount of rise and fall. There is nothing good about an album that makes you dance every single song; one does need a water break at some point after all. Red Directors gives you that nice smorgasbord of sounds. You can dance, you can sway with a lighter in your hand and you can just simple chill out and become one with the couch, it’s really whatever you like. I know, I know, as of late much of what comes out of the indie rock vein has the stigma of sounding all the same but these guys aren’t monotonous. They have one track, “Naked in the Kitchen”. It’s about, well, being naked in the kitchen and frankly getting down to “business”. The song has you wondering why the hell you, yourself, aren’t naked in the kitchen. Like I said, fun. How many bands are rocking out singing about being naked in the kitchen? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Lead singer and guitarist Trevor Potts has an infectious voice that is bound to get stuck in your head. Not in that "I'm a grown man singing Christina Aguilera" kind of way, but in a good way--meaning you'll actually like this being engrained in your cranium. It has a tremendously poppy appeal while not being anywhere near the bubblegum aisle. Red Directors are a musical pleasure that doesn’t have to be guilty. Sounds Like: Gaslight Anthem, Jonathan Rice Hot Tracks: Naked in the Kitchen, Amazing, After Sunday Manasa Vedula-MuzikReviews.com Contributor

Red Directors resented with GRINDIE AWARD by
If you like pop/rock with bigger-than-life hooks and sing-along choruses that stick with you long after the last note has drifted off into the night then, Red Directors, delivers the goods on their latest CD, “Wave It In,” a ten song collection of highly polished power pop gems. “After Sunday” kicks things off with its infectious, era-spanning sense of melody and drive. It’s only one of several highlights though. “Been Around” and “Pretty Good Odds” demonstrate the band’s ballads are no less formidable than their best rockers, despite such defining up tempo performances as “Naked in the Kitchen” and “Woken Eye.” Elsewhere, they more than ably show they can cover that middle ground between rocker and ballad too, offering up the terrific “Spin” and the endearing “Amazing,” each with the same post-Beatles flourish that infuses the entire CD. With such a solid multi-format, pop/rock approach to their sound the “Wave It In” CD by Red Directors is sure to please across generation lines, a tribute to their talent as well as their influences.

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