Weaned on a healthy diet of equal parts sweet Motown sound and New York's grit and grime, The Postelles are next in line to a long tradition of great pop music. At once sweetly constructed and achingly raw, their songs give voice to the modern reality of frenetic city life.

The Postelles met in high school on NYC’s Upper West Side and have spent the last few years perfecting their hopelessly catchy rock grooves together. Citing influences from Motown to Woody Allen, they provide a modern take to the soundtrack of a 1950’s prom with a New York edge. According to Rolling Stone, “The Postelles channel Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello and – more recently – the Arctic Monkeys and the Strokes, building songs from brief guitar stabs and sounding like the wound-up early hours of what will be a long Saturday night on the town. There are elements of both mod and post-punk, but The Postelles have a sneering attitude all their own…” Entertainment Weekly describe the Postelles as having a “Sunny garage-bop sound,” while Spin has said, “they serve up a hooked-at-the-gills, head-bobbing rock’n'roll groove.”

The quartet has played major festivals including Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, SXSW, All Points West, Iceland’s Airwaves Festival and CMJ. The band has begun to attract considerable excitement and attention also playing shows in New York, London, Paris and Canada where they have opened for the likes of Vampire Weekend, The Cold War Kids, Yeasayer and Fanfarlo to name a few.  Spin.com has called their live set "pitch perfect."  This summer will see the band playing leading festivals such as Bonnaroo in support of their "White Night EP" produced by Strokes guitarist and solo act Albert Hammnod Jr. due out on Astralwerks/Capitol Records on March 2nd, 2010



The Postelles are:
Daniel Balk – Vocals/Guitar
David Dargahi – Guitar
John Speyer – Bass
Billy Cadden – Drums