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An Indie Rock five-piece from New York City, Wormburner plays rootsy, lyrical Powerpop with Punk and New Wave ingredients. Wormburner began releasing EPs and CD singles in 2004, playing a steady schedule of Northeast shows that would earn them their reputation as one of New York's most bombastic live bands.

When Wormburner's self-produced recordings found their way to David Lowery (frontman for Cracker & Camper van Beethoven), the band traveled south to Richmond, VA and began crafting a proper full-length album with David Lowery producing.

The debut LP (aptly titled A Hero's Welcome) is a 12-song tirade melding brilliant lyrics with driving guitars and vintage Moog synthesizers. A Hero's Welcome was released on DIVE Records in the Fall of 2006.

Wormburner will be playing New York City's Mercury Lounge on Saturday December 12th. The band's second full-length, titled Placed by The Gideons,
will be released in early 2010.

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Bells of St. Ignatius

A Christmas Single by Wormburner

Cover of Bells of St. Ignatius single

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Credits

Engineered and mixed by Alan Camlet with Pete Thompson at Hoboken Recorders in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Song by Steve Henry, Teenage Waistband Music Publishing [BMI]

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Press

"Bells of St. Ignatius is Wormburner's answer to The Pogues' Fairytale of New York" - Time Out New York

"...astounding....Henry sounds like other vocalists that are neither from his genre or time.....the stories combined with the scenery make [Wormburner] new and, to this point, unmatched. Four stars." - Anti-Music

"A Wormburner show has much in common with amphetamine-fueled soul revivals...it's refreshing to find a band like Wormburner who so clearly believes in the power of the classic pop song to lift a room full of people clear off its foundation." - New York Press

"Wormburner is one of New York's best rock bands. Period. Power-pop to a tee and not a slip up in the repertoire." - Sonic Parthenon