The Echo Friendly
Shannon Esper and Jake Rabinbach are a couple who've been lucky in love and lucky in music -- they're married, and they're also the leaders of the Echo-Friendly, a band that generates a unique fusion of indie rock, garage rock, and smart pop. Esper and Rabinbach first met in 2009, when they were working on an independent film called Open Five. The two hit it off and became close friends while dating on and off. Rabinbach started a band in 2010 called Jump Back Jake and the Echo-Friendly, with Jake on guitar and vocals, Jake Vest on bass, and Greg Faison on drums. (Vest and Faison had previously worked together in the Memphis bands Tiger High and the Bulletproof Vests.) This initial edition of the group released a four-song EP, Still Not Sorry. In 2011, the group shortened the name to the Echo-Friendly, with Esper joining the lineup on vocals and guitar, and they dropped a pair of singles, "Same Mistakes" b/w "There's Part of Me Nobody Sees But You" and "Boats." Love Panic
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