The Red Telephone (band)

The Red Telephone is a Boston-based atmospheric pop band active since 1995. The Red Telephone emerged from the Boston underground pop scene in the late 90’s. Weeks after the band’s first performance in early 1996, the quartet unexpectedly made it to the semifinal round of WBCN’s legendary Rumble, a nod which led to the release of a 7-inch single, “Maya,” on Arista subsidiary Time Bomb Records. By December, less than a year after their inception, The Red Telephone were signed to Warner Brothers Records. Their self-titled debut album, produced by Dennis Herring (Elvis Costello, Throwing Muses), was released in 1998.

After parting with Warner Brothers, the band released the EP "Aviation" in 2000 and the full-length "Cellar Songs" in 2001, each self-produced in drummer Britton’s “Phone Booth” studio and released on the band’s own Raise Giant Frogs label. Each release outsold the debut album, received widespread critical acclaim, and landed the Red Telephone on a number of television and film soundtracks.

Following several US tours, the band went dormant in 2002—only to reemerge in 2014 with a Kickstarter campaign to fund a fourth album, Places You Return.

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