Biography
Formed in September 2003, The Black Spoons celebrated its one-year birthday in style: by releasing the critically acclaimed debut album My Dear Radium and throwing the biggest show the Lower East Side mainstay Pianos has seen in 2004.
Less than two months later, The Black Spoons returned to Pianos and sold it out again. That sent a few shockwaves through the NYC circuit, and the emails started rolling in: the trio just finished playing its tremendous Brooklyn debut at the incomparable Southpaw (and were immediately invited back).
Since then, the trio sold out Mercury Lounge on Saturday, January 29, 2005, and undertook a successful March tour through New York, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Cincinnati, Nashville, New Orleans (for St. Patty's Day), and Austin (for SXSW).
The Black Spoons have just released their sophomore album, The History of Modern Silence.
On May 6th, a Tom Sean of the Black Spoons anounced the departure of their bassist, Dave Horton:
Quoted from an email: Bassist David Horton is no longer a member of The Black Spoons. Horton joined the band in 2004, after the departure of the original TBS bassist/founding member Rob Fellman. The Black Spoons carry on with founding members Ruben Mercado (drums) and Tom Sean (guitar/vocals).
Lead singer Tom Sean, born Thomas S. Mullaney, was recently hired by Stanford University as their new tenure-track Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History. On May 17th, 2006, Sean received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, where he had been studying for the past six years.
Sean will be relocating to San Francisco in August, at which point he and his bandmate Ruben Mercado (still based out of New York) will continue to support the band's newest album, The History of Modern Silence, produced by Paul Mahajan (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The National). Sean and Mercado have also begun work on the band's third recording.
Bio exerpts taken From http://www.theblackspoons.com
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