My Teenage Stride is Jedediah Smith with Brett Whitmoyer, and a rotating cast of other musicians, such as Jenny Logan from
Ribbons and Jeff Ciprioni from
The Metric Mile. The group began in Brooklyn in 2004, essentially as a bedroom project for permanently wired songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Smith. As interest rose and an album was released, Smith slowly got together a proper band, though he is still the sole instrumentalist on the bulk of the band's recordings to date, with the exception of some of
Ears Like Golden Bats and most of the their digital-only EP,
Lesser Demo… read more