Office (band)

For other uses of this term, see Office (disambiguation).

Office
Origin	Chicago, Illinois Kalamazoo, Michigan
Genres	Rock, Pop music, Indie rock, psychedelic, song-oriented music
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Quack!Media Former label - Scratchie Records New Line Records
Members
Scott Masson - singer, producer, songwriter Erica Corniel - drums, vocals Justin Petertil - piano, keys, vocals, and percussion Tom Smith - guitar, vocals Colin DeKuiper - bass
Past members
Alissa Noonan - bass Jessica Gonyea - synth, percussion, and vocals Jamie Harper - bari sax, flute John Martin - tenor sax, accordion Brad Minor - bass Toby Worscheck - drums, drum machine

Office is a Chicago-based pop band that formed in 2000.

History

The band began as a public performance outlet for songwriter Scott Masson while attending Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Masson has maintained the band as a collaborative musical project since, with various friends and performers as collaborators.

Office has developed a cult following in the last decade, particularly in the Chicago community, promoting a sound that has been described by Spin as "handclaps and sunny harmonies", which is ironically the opposite of what the band writes about.^{[citation needed]} Their song "Wound Up" was downloaded over 322,000 times as the Single of the Week on the iTunes Music Store in May 2006, helping their 2005 album, Q&A, reach number 14 on the iTunes album charts, briefly beating Tom Petty and Neil Young in the Top 20. Q&A held a spot in the iTunes top 100, while the band was performing shows at South by Southwest music festival in 2006 and 2007, CMJ, Mobfest, Midwest Music Conference, a set at Lollapalooza, and many more high-profile showcases. In October 2006, the group signed with Scratchie Records, an independent label owned by James Iha, former guitarist of the Smashing Pumpkins.

The band's first record under the Scratchie label, A Night at the Ritz, was released on September 25, 2007. The album contains both previously unreleased and older material from the group's extensive catalogue, which has been remastered and remixed for commercial release.

Masson moved back to the Detroit-area in late 2008, and is currently recording and performing around the mid-west under the name Glossies, as well as producing records for other artists, painting, performing and recording with 800beloved, as well as other bands throughout the Detroit-area. Erica Corniel continues to write songs with Jojo Yang, and Justin Petertil writes music for the band Love Raid.

Office signed with Ann Arbor-based media conglomerate Quack!Media in January 2009, releasing "Mecca" on limited-edition vinyl and digital download. For several months, the album was available for free via the internet.

Recently, Office's song 'Dominoes' was included on the indie compilation Indiecater Volume IV in August 2009. The song "Enter Me, Exit You" was licensed by Abercrombie & Fitch, and Hollister Co. stores across the US and UK.

Collaborators

Past and present collaborators include: Scott Masson, Alissa Noonan, Tom Smith, Jessica Gonyea, Justin Petertil, Erica Corniel, Jamie Harper, John Martin, Brad Minor, Toby Worscheck, Jen Collier, Colin DeKuiper, Jody Weinmann, Thea Nichols, Sarah Jean Stevens, Shawn Rios, Jackie Phillips, Kip Donlon, Jeremy Freer, Jeffrey Freer, and more.

Discography

Albums

Office (2001)

1. "Traffic Jams"
2. "Cash/Money Killionaire"
3. "Paint the City and Faces With Yellow"
4. "Squeeze the Distance"
5. "Bizmox"
6. "Gas Mask"
7. "Wireless"
8. "The Program"
9. "Toy Piano"
10. "Cakeheads"
11. "Message Machine"

The Ice Tea Boys and the Lemonade Girls (2002)

1. "Loverdriver"
2. "Plus/Minus Fairytale"
3. "Weathermaker"
4. "Superfoolfantastic"
5. "Reaching For A Laser Beam"
6. "Company Calls"
7. "Bar Yellow"
8. "And You're So..."
9. "The Ice Tea Boys and the Lemonade Girls"
10. "Until I Find You..."
11. "Mosquito"

Glass Corvette [unreleased] (2004)

1. "Introduction"
2. "Q & A"
3. "Glass Corvette"
4. "The Remedy"
5. "Poor Rich"
6. "Into Your Network"
7. "Wicker Park Party!"
8. "Reality TV Show"
9. "Busy With Other Things"
10. "Until 6PM..."
11. "Suburban Perfume"
12. "Good Cops"
13. "Twelve Months"
14. "Pulmonary Lounge"

Q&A (2005)

1. "Wound Up"
2. "Oh My"
3. "The Big Bang Jump!"
4. "If You Don't Know By Now"
5. "Busy With Other Things"
6. "Q & A"
7. "Until 6PM"
8. "Not Her Style"
9. "Ordinary Offices, Extraordinary Proposals"
10. "Had a Visit"
11. "Dominos"
12. "Possibilities"

A Night at the Ritz (2007)

1. "Oh My"
2. "If You Don't Know by Now"
3. "The Ritz"
4. "Company Calls"
5. "Wound Up"
6. "The Big Bang Jump"
7. "Plus Minus Fairytale"
8. "Paralyzed Prince"
9. "Had a Visit"
10. "Q&A"
11. "Dominoes"
12. "Possibilities"
13. "Suburban Perfume"
14. "Walking the Cow" (iTunes only bonus track)

Mecca (2009)

1. "Sticky Dew"
2. "Nobody Knows You"
3. "Ridiculous Plans"
4. "Enter Me, Exit You"
5. "Dr. Drako"
6. "Sleepwalking"
7. "Everything You've Witnessed"
8. "Trainwreck DJs"
9. "Double Penetrate the Market"
10. "Aphrodisiac Missles"
11. "The Silent Parade"

Notes and references

External links

• Office Official Website
• Office on MySpace
• Office on Twitter