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Ah, yes, the quintessential rock band line-up: guitar, bass, drums, trombone. DOH! Actually, the trombone does not figure prominently and this disc is mostly guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. The keys being mostly cheesy (I mean that in a good way) organ ... Sorta early B-52-sy (only with more balls and no Fred Schneider or girls with beehives to ruin things.) The opening track "Big Hit in Mid-America" kinda recalls Queens of the Stoneage "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" in name only ... While we're at it, the titles are all kind of derivitive (see also: disc title; and track 6: "A Slow One, While He's Away"). Not a big criticism, but I was awaiting a cover of George Harrison's "This Song," when I got to track 7, but instead got ... "This Song" by Superhopper! A good song anyway, but not very original. The last track is an 8 minute plus noise-freakout ala early Pink Floyd meets early PiL...(Read: when both bands were good). Especially cool and noteworthy is "Pay Day": "...we're still standing/waiting for the pay day that never comes..." I can relate: Jason, when do I get paid? Ed: That would be five minutes past never.
- www.superpunk.com

For a while I lived in a hotel with Superhopper. It was nice. I would sleep most of the day, and when I woke up Superhopper would have invariably peed in my mouth. I had it coming. At night we would stay up late doing aderol and telling ghost stories. Those were the days of our lives. One day Superhopper came back to my hotel majorly pissed. Nick Superhopper took my TV and threw it out the window. Kermit Superhopper picked me up by my hair and started smashing my face into the bathroom mirror. Matt Superhopper tied me up, and then Bill Superhopper poured gasoline on me and set me on fire.
-Double Indemnity Records

Superhopper is the where things take place. Despite their name, which is often mistakes them for a mid-90's alternative rock sound, they handle nuclear waste and run their own train tracks.

Superhopper features the instrumentation of four computer programmers, six drummers, and an electronic drummer. Through this they simulate the sound of guitars, basses, keyboards, and brass. It is a real miracle things worked out the way they did.

Superhopper is the most popular band ever in Saint Paul and they hang out at Big V's. Kermit Carter is a champion of singing in the band and he plays a guitar. Bill Muller was in the air force; in the early 90's he fucked up Iraq. Matt I can't spell his last name.

Pictured on the left is a computer keyboard programmer Nick Shuminsky. He uses electronics for his drums and he is avant garde. He played a Pere Ubu cover and a Van Halen cover song.

They have two albums on their own label, who is a rival so I won't say the name of the label. "Music for Downtowns" and "The Days of Wine and Whiskey." Like me, they booze up to relax.
- Double Indemnity Records

Mini-Review: In the hard rocking pop tradition of Minneapolis comes Superhopper, who's great new CD Music for Downtowns rocks out in a style reminiscence of The Buzzcocks. An enjoyable audio romp.
- www.maximum-ink.com