One Track Mind (release date November 6, 2007)

Who the hell are Something for Rockets, and why do they have such diverse fans? How is it that rich girls, music fanatics, casual radio listeners, and moms all have SFR in their music collections? Especially as they're a band who supposedly "no one" knows about, a band that's worked independently to this point, self-releasing a full-length and an EP. How is this possible?

Could it be they're just THAT good? Their music is just THAT easy to love and share? Could they really be THAT accessible?

We think so.

Rami Perlman, son of living-legend violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, was introduced to music at conception. With Vivaldi and Mozart perpetually soaring from his father's study and mainstream pop radio saturating his youthful ears (like any child of the 80s), Rami's bevy of musical influences was forged.

Rami met Josh Eichenbaum while attending Brown University, where Josh was studying computer music and composition. During this time, Rami was writing straight-from-the-heart, bare-bones guitar songs, and the two began recording their senior year. Shortly after graduating, the friends packed up for LA and began work on what would become Something For Rockets. Enter Barry Davis, ex-drummer of the LA-based post-punk outfit The Actual. With a sensitive touch and keen feel for many different styles, Davis slid perfectly into Something For Rockets' musical stew.

After completing a self-titled 3-song EP, SFR began generating a massive buzz in the LA-area. They were also showcased by BMI as the Band of the Month. LA radio began to take notice, particularly Steve Jones at Indie 103.1. Jones started pushing the single "Might as Well" on his hit show Jonesy's Jukebox. Other stations followed stations such as KCRW and college favorite KXLU. Spaceland set them up with a month-long residency.

Something For Rockets released their self-titled debut full-length in 2005, an electronica-influenced collection of danceable blips and beeps anchored in Perlman's resonating voice and Eichenbaum's keys. The press took immediate notice, with a nationally syndicated piece in the LA Times, along with features in Entertainment Weekly, GQ ("The Essentials"), LA Daily News, Campus Circle, and URB ("Next 100") just to name a few. In addition, the band was featured on MTV's You Hear it First, and later went on to host an MTV news segment covering the South By Southwest music festival.

Now Something For Rockets is back with One Track Mind, produced by the band and Mark Hoppus (Blink-182 and +44). It's a definite departure in sound for the band. Eichenbaum's keys still shine through but the laptop-action takes a bit of a backseat this go-around, allowing Perlman's deep baritone and shimmering guitars to take center stage along with Davis' spot-on drumming. One Track Mind is a joyous listen from start to finish, from the exuberant wall of sound openers "Introduction Into Bed" and "This Is The Last Time" to the rolling, sing-along chorus of "That's A Lie" to the rollicking, shimmying guitars of "Beautiful Life." A few special guests stop by to contribute as well: Hoppus sings on "Just Stay Home," Rami's father offers poignant strings on "Same Old Thing," and Hubert Glover from former tourmates Margot & The Nuclear So and So's brings the trumpet to "Stuck In Neutral."

Evocative, intelligent, and stylish, Something For Rockets' sound is both vintage and modern, dark and playful, and all anchored by the romantic sentiment of young and hopeless-self-destruction.

Something For Rockets have played shows and or toured with the following bands:

Shout Out Louds, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Ok Go, Brazilian Girls (multiple dates), Mickey Avalon, Fishbone (multiple dates), South (US Tour), Action Action (US tour), Margot and the Nuclear So and So's (US tour), Men Women and Children (West Coast tour), Brendan Benson, AC Newman, Fannypack, Hello Stranger, Benevento Russo Duo (US tour), U.S.E. (multiple dates), Controller Controller (multiple dates in Canada), Viva Voce, Suicide Girls, Glen Tilbrook, Rocket, Nine Black Alps, and lots of other bands that you may or may not know.

Something For Rockets have played the following festivals: South by Southwest (Austin, TX), CMJ (New York, NY), Amsterjam (New York, NY), Street Scene (San Diego, CA), Sunset Junction (Silverlake, CA), Wicker Park Music Festival (Chicago, IL).