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, featuring Ryan Nelson (

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) and Melissa Quinley.

History

Ryan Nelson and Melissa Quinley met as co-workers at

Dischord Records Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release ''Minor Disturbance'' by their band The Teen Idle ...

and began writing songs together in Nelson's house. Slowly a collection of fourteen tracks was amassed that the duo released on Dischord as ''"Volunteered" Civility & Professionalism'' in 2006. Nelson then relocated to

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to attend school and the project was put on hiatus. When Nelson returned to Washington D.C. in 2012, the two reunited and added keyboardist/guitarist Jason Hutto ( The Aquarium, Warm Sun) and Quinley's husband, drummer Dennis Kane. This lineup released the band's second album, ''Real Lessons In Cynicism'', in 2015.

Discography

*''soy tu papa pedro'' *''"Volunteered” Civility and Professionalism'' (2006,

) *''Real Lessons In Cynicism'' (2015, Dischord Records)

References

External links

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