Hideous Supermodels

It Is A Band. Sing Along. Yay.

We met as students at the Contemporary Music Center on Martha’s Vineyard, a program that has since moved to Nashville. One day someone in charge said Carl and I had to write a song together.

We needed a subject, and the janitor walked past us. So we wrote about her. We did not ask her name. We did not ask her anything. We were young men with guitars, which is to say we already knew everything, and what we knew was that she was from El Salvador. We called the song “Salvadoreña,” and we were very pleased with ourselves.

She was from Guatemala.

Twenty years later we started putting out songs again, “Devotion” in 2022 and “The Fight” in 2023. Paul also plays in Berry. Carl also plays in Last Tuesday. I work in IT, which is not a band but has nearly as many cables.

Start here: Salvadoreña (2002)

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Meet the Band

  • Puppet-style caricature of Paul Goodenough playing drums

    Paul Goodenough

    Drums

  • Caricature of Carl Emmons playing a red bass guitar

    Carl Emmons

    Bass Guitar and Vocals

  • Puppet-style caricature of Nathan Phinney playing an acoustic guitar

    Nathan Phinney

    Guitars and Vocals

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