This Brooklyn based Indie Rock band recently gained both notoriety and respect in 2006 by releasing an EP every month. Having completed this impressive feat they are about to release their second full length album The Broken String tomorrow (it is already available on their website). This new CD reworks many of the songs from their 2006 EP's.

Bishop Allen's music is reminiscent of The Clash, and Belle and Sebastian with their own irresistible twist. They alternate between a sweet, quiet sound with piano and ukulele as in Click Click Click Click, Like Castanets, and Butterfly Nets, to an upbeat, and bouncy sound as in Rain, Middle Management and News From Your Bed. Their songs also often feature compelling stories, like Corazon, a song about a piano which the band rescued from the trash outside of a public school in Brooklyn.

Bishop Allen was formed in 2003 by two Harvard grads Justin Rice and Christian Rudder, and is named after the street of their Cambridge apartment at the time. They are frequently joined by other artists, notably Darbie Nowatka who sings lead vocals on some songs and often joins them live. Prior to starting the band Christian Rudder started the website Sparknotes.com currently owned by Barnes and Noble.