Alpine White

Alpine White

About Alpine White

Evoking the iconic Alpine White Gibson guitar as their namesake, Alpine White’s four song debut, The Hale EP, features seamlessly crafted guitar hooks, catchy choruses, and the sincere and heartfelt lyrics of Colin Denker. Inspiration is wherever you can find it, or at least that’s how Colin views it. “For the last five years or so there has been a recurring duality, where on one hand you have drugs, stagnation, suicide, and negativity, and on the other is life, love, inspiration, creativity, and music,” states Colin. “For me it all seems to hinge on my attitude.” Despite their crisp and wintry moniker, Alpine White emerges out of San Francisco, showcasing their power pop sensibilities and indie rock melodies resting in the camp of indie rock greats a la Spoon, The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys. Positioned atop the band is chief song-writer and sheriff, Colin Denker (lead vocals, guitar, piano, drums), along with his brother Ian Denker (bass, vocals). Friends Ivan Wence (guitar, vocals) and Javier Benavides (drums, percussion) joined in April 2011, completing the quartet. Though the band found its roots in San Francisco, the group didn’t always call the city home. In fact, to call the band well-traveled may prove to be a bit of an understatement. While most brothers grow up arguing in the sandbox or fighting over car privileges, brothers Colin and Ian are first generation German Americans who spent their youth traveling the country with their father until the age of 16. Sometimes logging as many as a thousand miles a day with their dad, the brothers recall playing along to the radio with a small set of bongo drums and listening to the Beatles. Branching out on their own after that, the two have called New York City, Portland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and finally San Francisco, all home. Yet they didn’t lose their love of music, inherited from their dad and their long car rides. It wasn’t long until Colin began writing songs, in between being on his own for the first time, and finding his first apartment. The band itself, Alpine White, was created to play the songs Colin wrote in his formative years. The songs themselves take shape from Colin, and grow as the band experiments and plays them together. It would be those songs that gave birth to the band’s debut release. Due out November 1st, its songs teeter between losing hope, setting relationships right, and finding a voice in the midst of young adulthood. “I think that a lot of our music is about accurately portraying a mood or a feeling,” adds Ian. “When I play, I think less about what other people think, and more about playing what I like. There is integrity in it that way.”

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