SquishtheBadMan was formed on the belief that now can still be a great time for music. The band's founding members - dual singer/songwriter/guitarists Julie Meyers and Dave Middleton - came of age during the onset of grunge, when the word "alternative" suddenly became anything but. Dave and Julie found inspiration and identity in the power and immediacy of those bands, so much so that it led them to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where they both absorbed a heady concoction of pop, jazz, punk, metal, indie-rock, country, and just about everything in between. Ironically, the sheer intensity of a top music school curriculum leaves little time to be in a band, but Dave and Julie played together enough to know there was a creative spark worth pursuing. They followed that spark all the way to California, where after 3000 miles and countless other side and solo projects, they finally had their chance to be a band.

Imagine if Fleetwood Mac grew up listening to Nirvana, Sebadoh, and Sunny Day Real Estate. If Thom York, Billy Corgan, and Marvin Gaye got together and wrote songs to be sung by Ida. If Gillian Welch and David Rawlings brought their music down from the Appalachian mountains of centuries ago and into modern day New York City. If these things happened, it might sound a lot like SquishtheBadMan.

Davis Enterprise, Feb. 13, 2003
No matter what you call their music, you have to call it wonderful. This local duo recently relocated from a period of higher learning...

Sacramento News & Review, May 8, 2003
SquishtheBadMan is a Davis duo that looks like it hired the art department from Awake magazine to design the cover of its debut...

West Coast Peformer, June 1, 2003
At first blush, one would label Squish the Bad Man folk or soft rock or some such thing. But, more specifically, speaking of blushing, How to Get to Heaven is sexy librarian music...

How To Get To Heaven, 2003

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Julie & Dave were members of the Famous Celebrities; Julie occasionally performs solo.