Telephone

Alternative / New Wave / Rock

Portland, OR

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About

Telephone "Automatic", came out on June 19, 2007 via Los Angeles and Chicago-based independent record label Cobra Music.
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You may remember Hedford as co-founder and drummer for Brit-pop darlings The Dandy Warhols.

Following a tumultuous relationship with lead singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor (then just Courtney Taylor), Hedford left at the first peak of the band's popularity, following their Capitol Records debut, "Come Down", propelled by their single "Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth".

After his departure from the band, which is documented in the Dandy Warhols/Brian Jonestown Massacre documentary, "DiG!" (Palm Pictures), a bitter taste would remain after Hedford was forced to take legal action against Taylor-Taylor over royalties. Taylor-Taylor flat out told him, "You will get nothing". Ironically in "DiG!" Taylor-Taylor claimed he gave his band "half" of his royalties. They would settle out of court.

Hedford, not deterred by this, would jump right back into music, drumming for a few local bands before forming a band with friends Paul Pulvirenti (Elliott Smith, No. 2, Jr. High) and Scott Fox (Crackerbash, Satan's Pilgrims), as well as a revolving cast of bass players.

The band would soon settle on the name Telephone.

"I like the name Telephone because it's so simple, but it captures a feeling," says Hedford, "like space travel or communication, but it's a bit retro, which fits the music we're playing."

In 2005 they released their EP "We Are Telephone", which charted in the top 100 on CMJ's chart, and spent two years touring the Northwest and West Coast in support of it.

The release of the award winning movie "Dig!", in which Eric Hedford appears (as well as Telephone), stirred up quite a buzz for all involved and they followed by signing a deal with indie label upstart, Cobra Music. Shortly thereafter, they entered the studio to begin recording what would become "Automatic", their debut full-length.

Look for the band to tour throughout 2007 and well in to 2008 in support of "Automatic".