***Recent press:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the cutest band in Sacramento.......The Miles!"
-Kevin Seconds
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"...The Miles are really good."
-Alive and Kicking
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"...very [+]***Recent press:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the cutest band in Sacramento.......The Miles!"
-Kevin Seconds
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"...The Miles are really good."
-Alive and Kicking
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"...very excellent songs, and the band does them full justice. Really good show."
-Alive and Kicking
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"...[The] songwriting focuses pop and indie-rock into some memorable three-minute numbers,"
".... This process is also what makes The Miles interesting."
-Sacramento News and Review
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"A band of sidemen "
Dave Brockman's new trio, the Miles, exemplifies the best the Sac-pop sound has to offer
By Christian Kiefer
(Sacramento News and Review)
Sacramento has a long history of pop songwriting. Marshaled, in many ways, around Kevin Seconds' Poprockit label; a series of SacPop compilation albums (the latest being SacPop 3); and bands and musicians such as Anton Barbeau, California Oranges, Popgun and the Kimberly Trip, the Sac-pop scene has become one of our most recognizable musical exports. As a result, the pop-songwriting bar is set pretty high in this town. When competing with the caliber of pop songwriting Sacramento has to offer, the average songsmith must be pretty darned good just to keep up with the locals.
David Brockman is pretty darned good. In fact, he's better than that; he's the kind of songwriter that other songwriters speak of with a kind of reverence. What's surprising, though, is not how good Brockman's songs are, but rather that he has been known around town for years--not as a songwriter but as one of the most in-demand sidemen in town. It is as a sideman that Brockman came to form one of the area's most exciting new pop bands, the Miles.
The Miles is, at heart, a trio of sidemen. Bassist Shawn Hale is a veteran of various Anton Barbeau-fronted bands. Drummer Garin Casaleggio also has worked with Barbeau, and Brockman was a member of the band Ian Faith in the late 1980s. And, for five years, Brockman worked with Rusty Miller and Eric Bianchi in Jackpot. But it took local legend David Houston to bring the three of them together.
"I met Garin when I was playing with Jackpot," Brockman recalled, "and saw
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