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They certainly ring many bells with their 60’s pop style, charming tunes. The vocals harmonize and chime happily, crescendo-ing in perfect time with the drums. This upbeat five-piece migrated to Brooklyn from Philly, and their sound couldn’t be more appropriate for the New York music scene. The keys blare and the guitar twangs, as their music bleeds similar sounds to the Beach Boys, The Strokes and The Shins. There’s much more to them than just those three influences, it’s possibly some of the most jovial music I’ve heard in quite a while that carries any merit to it. They croon and bop with shamelessly sweet tunes and it’s nearly impossible not to cheer up. It’s like the movie “That Thing You Do” only better and without Tom Hanks as their manager. So dig in, be logical, get happy.

If you had to cover an album of another five member band which band would it be?

On any other day, we'd probably pick something like... “Hail to the Thief.” It's been a strange week though something seems off with the cosmos. We're going to shoot high and take on “Permanent Vacation” by Aerosmith. It's got “Rag Doll” AND “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” on it. That's enough reason to listen to 10 other filler tracks from, um, yeah... Aerosmith.

When and how did the members of The Canon Logic meet and become who you are today?

Tim and Josh met up freshmen year at college and started writing music together. A year later, Mark answered a craigslist ad they put out. Sean, a childhood friend of Mark's gets thrown into the mix some months down the line. Eventually, Mike pulls a Mark, and finds everyone else on craigslist. It's a Canon Logic miracle! The five members thrive as a unit but become fed up with the aching jock-rock dominated Philadelphia music scene, and move up to New York City, which is where they reside today. There's obviously a lot more that went into the last 3 or so years, but we'll save that for the VH1 special.

Well, we definitely get compared to the Beach Boys somewhat frequently, but that might be our own doing (it was mentioned on our website for a while). On the vocal end of things, a lot of classic rock acts are responsible for our harmonic tendencies Queen, CSNY, Beatles, Beach Boys. Musically, the five of us converge on Radiohead and some classic rock, but branch out from there.

What has been the most exciting show/venue/city you've played so far? What are you guys most excited about for these upcoming months?

We've played at a couple high-profile shows on a big stage here or there (Warped Tour, SXSW, the occasional college fest). On paper, those are the big ones. The shows that stand out most for us, however, are the ones in our hometown where we're in our element and playing to a capacity crowd of fans and close friends. Recently, we topped off a Monday night residency at Pianos in the LES with a packed house. That felt good (until we had to go into work the next morning). Playing shows is only half the fun though. What we're looking forward the most over the next few months is focusing on promoting our debut full-length album. That, and making a splash at CMJ in October.