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From left to right: guitarist Juan Camacho, singer Lisa Blue, bassist Terri Parrish and drummer Maya Chernobyl of The Crimes of
Ambition are releasing “Spinning Hearts in Perpetual Orbit” Friday.
The Crimes of Ambition:
a melodic post-punk band
The group's dehut album will be available at a
CD release party at the Black Forest on Friday
BY ANDREW MCCOLLUM
PULSE REPORTER
The seeds for Eugene post-punk
band The Crimes of Ambition were
planted back in the late '90s when
then-University philosophy graduate
student Maya Chernobyl found her
self spending her days atthe now
defunct cafe Sandino's Fonda.
"Something kept me in acade
mia, but I knew it wasn't right for
me and it was keeping me stunt
ed," said Chernobyl. "So I wentto
this Marxist coffee shop where
they blasted punk rock music. I
would smoke, drink strong coffee
out of a bottomless cup, and get ex
posed to all this music."
At Sandino's Fonda, Chernobyl met
The Crimes of Ambition's songwriter
and guitarist Juan Camacho, who
owned the cafe. The two started dat
ing and eventually co-owned the
next generation of the coffee shop.
"We lost that shop because we're
not good business people," ex
plained Chernobyl. "But everyone
loved it."
In 1999 the pair decided to form
the band. Atthe time Chernobyl
didn't know howto play drums.
"(Camacho) taught me howto
play drums, and I taught him howto
write poetry," said Chernobyl. "And I
got the fuck out of Philosophy."
The band has gone through vari
ous incarnations since its birth.
"Over six years we've been through
many singers and bass players,"
said Chernobyl, adding, "we never
fired anybody."
Two years ago the band's current
singer, Lisa Blue, answered a classi
fied ad she found in the Eugene
Weekly that read "VOCALIST
NEEDED for rock band."
"I came in grabbed a microphone
and something crazy came out of
me," said Blue about her audition.
"And they liked it."
Like Blue, bassist Terri Parrish,
the most recent addition to the
band, also responded to an ad in
the Weekly.
The Crimes of Ambition's self-re
lease debut album "Spinning Hearts
in Perpetual Orbit" is due out Friday.
Parrish describes the band's sound
as melodic post-punk. "It's got
punk's drums, but not necessarily
punk's guitars," Parrish said. "It's
punk in spirit, but it's not sung by a
punk rocker."
The band will be having a CD re
lease party Friday evening at the
Black Forest, located at 50. E 11th
Ave. in downtown Eugene. The band
will perform songs off of their album,
and Station Wag and The Perverts
will perform as well. The band plans
on touring the Northwest and Eu
rope to support their album.
For more information, lyrics, and
MP3s, check out the band's Web
site at www.crimesofambition.us.
amccollum@dailyemerald.com
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