Band Bio

The Grift is an independent band from Burlington, VT who writes and performs an eclectic array of original music. Stylistically, they’re somewhere between an electrified Guster and New Order (sans the British accent) and Dave Matthews Band: their style is pop-rock with literate lyrics and vocal harmonies, and it really grooves. These guys have serious musical and songwriting chops - Bassist/vocalist Peter Day won a recent Vermont-wide songwriter contest, and guitarist/vocalist Clint Bierman co-wrote “I’m On My Way” for the Shrek 2 soundtrack. Drummer Jeff Vallone (classically trained, no less, with at least one symphony under his belt) was The Grift's original bass player, then turntable-ist, and now drummer. The songs spring to life when the vocal harmonies of Bierman and Day meet the musical muscle of a road-tested touring band. Mix a deep love for the craft of songwriting with the rock-solid rhythm section of Vallone on drums and Day on bass with Bierman’s masterful guitar playing, and you get the strange, eclectic, dynamic brew that is Grift music.

Formed: 1999 in Boulder, CO

Group Members:
Clint Bierman: Guitar, vocals
Jeff Vallone: Drums, Programming, Vocals
Peter Day: Bass, Trumpet, Vocals

Genres: Rock, Pop, Jam, Electro

Styles: Eclectic Vermont-Rock

Labels: GlennSource (5)

Albums: $6 Sunglasses (1999), Hotel Gillaspie (2000), Sleeping Policeman (2001), The Free Disc (2002), Live 2003 (2003), Life Beyond Aluminum (2004), Live at Nectar's (2008), Doppelganger (2009)