1. Image: When guitarist/producer Aaron Miller stumbled on Belfast native Joe Cassidy's solo performance one Chicago night in 2002, a band was born. With Cassidy cohort Merritt Lear on guitar and vocals, his old pal David Golitko on drums and New Yorker-turned-Windy City resident Alex Kemp on bass. With...Read More When guitarist/producer Aaron Miller stumbled on Belfast native Joe Cassidy's solo performance one Chicago night in 2002, a band was born. With Cassidy cohort Merritt Lear on guitar and vocals, his old pal David Golitko on drums and New Yorker-turned-Windy City resident Alex Kemp on bass. With...Read More

Full Biography

  1. When guitarist/producer Aaron Miller stumbled on Belfast native Joe Cassidy's solo performance one Chicago night in 2002, a band was born. With Cassidy cohort Merritt Lear on guitar and vocals, his old pal David Golitko on drums and New Yorker-turned-Windy City resident Alex Kemp on bass. With Kemp's background as a producer and Golitko's tech-savvy chops added to the mix, the Assassins are a self-contained unit that makes music self-described as "Ritalin starved orphan of Primal Scream, New Order, and Brainiac." In addition to a spot on the bill at one of the Chicago Lollapalooza festivals and a couple of opening act gigs for a few impressive names, the band released its Stephen Hague-produced debut, You Will Changed Us in 2006. In 2008, the group also found its song "Teething" used in an episode of the MTV series The Hills.

 

Albums

  1. Cut Me Loose Cut Me Loose

    Release Date: 01/01/89
    Label: Seymour

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