Wintergreen is an

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band from Los Angeles, best known for their song "When I Wake Up" and its accompanying

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. They have released much of their music for free online.

Members

Current: *Lead Singer/Guitarist – Drew Mottinger *Guitarist/Vocals – Trevor Sherwood *Drums – Todd Ramsey *Bass – Danny Young *Keyboard – Matt Casebeer Former: *Bass – Brad Vartan

''The Extended Play''

Wintergreen's first EP, entitled '' The Extended Play'', was released on January 24, 2006 and contains five tracks. It was released on the Indie label Mt. Fuji Records. It is available on Apple's iTunes music store or through th
band's website
Track list #"Waste of Time" #"When I Wake Up" #"Hard to Be Cool" #"Last Dance" #"You Belong to Me" A video for the song "When I Wake Up" was directed by

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, and released in January 2006. In it, the members of Wintergreen travel to

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to try to find the cartridges of the video game ''

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'' that were buried in 1983 by

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during the infamous

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. At the end of the video, the members successfully find the intact cartridges.

''(Around &) Around Again''

In July 2007, Wintergreen released their first LP, entitled ''(Around &) Around Again'' as a free download from their MySpace. It contains four of the five tracks originally available on ''The Extended Play'' (with "You Belong to Me" omitted), in addition to seven other original tracks. The download features all eleven tracks, an official lyrics PDF, album artwork (closely resembling the box art to an

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game), and the video for "When I Wake Up". Track list #"So Long" #"Too Late" #"When I Wake Up" #"Last Dance" #"Hard to be Cool" #"Fall Apart" #"Can't Sit Still" #"Waste of Time" #"Tomb" #"Ulysses" #"ROYGBIV" Following the release of ''(Around &) Around Again'', Wintergreen created their second music video, this time for the song "Can't Sit Still". Directed again by Schofield, this video features an instructional "how to" on the creation of several different (fictional) substances. Included in the video are instructions on the creation of "dextropolamine 22-B" (aka "Egyptian

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"), "pentocyclene" (aka "Hillbilly Qualudes"), and an unnamed

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. The video also features the band members shopping for the necessary household ingredients, creating the drugs, and allegedly doing and subsequently experiencing the effects of the substances.

Online presence

Wintergreen has made nearly all of their songs available on thei
MySpace page

References

External links

Wintergreen
on Myspace
Mt. Fuji Records
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wintergreen Indie rock musical groups from California Musical groups from Los Angeles