After blowing out every other club in the states and the far east with their dance-blast-band U.S.E, the boys of wonderful are back in the studio. In fact, within the last 2 years they've been recording their new masterpieces to their follow up of 2003's epic "God Bless Our Pad." Again delibrately trapping themselves in remote home-away-from-home studios in the mountains, rivers and beaches of the pacific Northwest. The 15 in-progress songs are day-by-day and week-by-week growing, expanding, exploding and becoming some of the most exciting and dynamic music ever made by the Seattle family which has also recently offsprung such exciting output as Nite Dance and The Thieves of Kailua. Pounding tribal drums, barbershop vocals, R&B rhythm sections and a pathway to the etherial mark the sound and vision of the new album "Wake Up To Dreamland." The new wonderful is well on its way.

Wonderful is the songs made by Jason Holstrom, Jon e. Rock Khanjian, Noah Weaver, and Peter Sali. Wonderful is about making beautiful, joyous music. Synthesizers, saxophones, voices, rock and roll, guitars, snares, cymbals, ukuleles, oceans, bells: these are all our friends in song.

What inspires the music? The Beatles and the Beach Boys (of course), The Flaming Lips, dance music, New Order, Debussy, Simon and Garfunkle, Island songs and so on and so on. But most of all we are always energized by our friends making music, just look at our links page – you will love it!

Seattle, Washington is where we call home. We have been making songs together for 8 years. There is no plan to stop.

contact us: Mannheim Management

"This hyper-joyous gem takes celebratory pop (a la Flaming Lips) to the next orgasmic level. Electronica, musique concrete and pure bubblegum in technicolor."
Joan Miller, Rolling Stone (as part of her top albums of 2003, of which God Bless are Pad reigned supreme.)
"When I listen to God Bless Our Pad, I hear beaches. I hear waves crashing, children laughing and playing, people frolicking with their dogs, and sunrises and sunsets over the ocean. And it is beautiful. So no matter how good God Bless Our Pad is (and it is good), words are not music and it's all I can do to urge you to acquire this record." Joel Hartse, Tablet
"Wonderful is like riding a merry-go-round under starlight; it's like being at a circus where angels perform tricks instead of creepy clowns; it's like being in love." Jeanette Strole, Bandoppler
"It is powerful and speechless, the number 12 made me cry the first time I heard it." Laura, Mount Vernon 2nd Grade