The Smittens: Cuter Than PunkThe Smittens: Cuter Than Punk
Athens, GA - The Smittens are a six-piece twee-pop band out of Burlington, VT, with feel-good songs, upbeat personalities and "cutesy" nicknames. They performed at the 40 Watt Club on Aug. 10 at this year's Athens Popfest.
After the jump you'll find the music video for "My Favorite Dream" from HHBTM Records's forthcoming No Parachute Vol. 2 DVD compilation. The label will also be releasing The Smittens' third album later this year.
Here's Kaela's brief Q&A with Colin "the Charming Smitten" Clary, Holly "the Littlest Smitten" Chagnon and Dana "the Lady Smitten" Kaplan.
What inspires you guys?
Colin: We get inspiration from each other. We write all the songs together, so we sort of feed off our energy. In general, it’s a reaction to all the bummers our there. We try to do the positive thing. We try to get people rallied around the idea of niceness and good songs. We like to write melodies.
Holly: Of course our friends inspire us. And our friends’ bands that are similar to us are inspiring as well.
Colin: We like the idea of punk rock, but not the anger of it. We like that anybody can do it.
What are some of your favorite live shows that you’ve been to?
Dana: We just came from playing the Toledo Popfest and probably my favorite show was seeing Fred Thomas from Saturday Looks Good To Me. A group of probably 20 folks ran up to a little closet of a space because there were all these issues with the downstairs space. It was unplugged; him and his guitar and a little microphone. I think just the intimacy of it was really cool. It was very memorable.
