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  Help School of Seven Bells' Benjamin Curtis Fight His Cancer

  March 12, 2013 – School of Seven Bells revealed back in February that Benjamin Curtis, one half of the dream-pop duo, is fighting cancer. …
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  School of Seven Bells' Benjamin Curtis Diagnosed With Cancer

  February 8, 2013 – School of Seven Bells have shared some sad and concerning news. Benjamin Curtis, one half of the New York City duo with lead singer Alejandra Deheza, is suffering from cancer. The band wrote in a Facebook post today that "the doctors say it's T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. …
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  School of Seven Bells Revisit Magical Youth in 'The Night' Video

  June 13, 2012 – Dream-pop duo School of Seven Bells recently asked filmmakers from around the world to submit their own videos, via the site Genero.tv, for the song "The Night," which comes off their latest album, Ghostory. The winning video, submitted by Allie Aviatal Tsypin, features a girl who looks a lot like Seven Bells singer Alejandra Deheza mugging, singing and playing on train tracks. …
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  My Obsessions: School of Seven Bells

  February 24, 2012 – Full of ethereal vocal hooks and gorgeously woozy guitar soundscapes, the music of Brooklyn duo School of Seven Bells feels more dreamed than composed. To help achieve that feeling, on the upcoming Ghostory — or on her and guitarist bandmate Benjamin Curtis's two prior albums — vocalist-keyboardist Alejandra Deheza relies on her trusty tarot cards. "I love those cards," explains Deheza. …
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  First Spin: Get School of Seven Bells' Remix of A Place to Bury Strangers' 'So Far Away'

  February 23, 2012 – Here's to opposites. For their remix of A Place to Bury Strangers' "So Far Away," soft-spoken New York dreamweavers School of Seven Bells sanded (not dulled!) and bandaged the definitively blown-out textures in which the former specializes. The result is dynamite: uncompromising, ethereal, soft in all the right places, serrated everywhere else. DOWNLOAD …
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  School of Seven Bells Rediscover Rock on 'Ghoststory' Concept Album

  December 8, 2011 – For School of Seven Bells' third album, the Brooklyn dream-pop duo revisited a sound they had long abandoned: rock'n'roll. "At the start of this band, rock was a four-letter word to me, but I fell in love the guitar again," says singer/multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Curtis, who joined the band after serving as the guitarist in heavy psych trio Secret Machines. "I love the visceral power you get from blasting into a song. …
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  CMJ Lineup: Surfer Blood, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

  August 30, 2010 – The first wave of artists for the annual music, schmoozing, and booze marathon that is New York City's CMJ Festival have been unveiled, and the lineup is already worth the five sleepless nights and hungover mornings: Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah, Greg Dulli, Surfer Blood, Dean & Britta, Bayside, the Blow, Senses Fail, Langhorne Slim, Two Door Cinema Club, School of Seven Bells, and hundreds of others will all rock Manhattan Octob …
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• School of Seven Bells, 'Disconnect From Desire' (Vagrant)

  July 2, 2010 – Alpinisms, School of Seven Bells' intriguing 2008 debut, blended dreamy, deep-focus soundscapes with spiraling melodies sung in close harmony. On Desire, guitarist Ben Curtis and twin sister vocalists, Alejandra and Claudia Deheza, rein in and smooth out those same elements, as songs like the uplifting "Windstorm" and majestic "Joviann" fit space-mother sing-alongs and relaxed Madchester rhythms into snappier verse-chorus structures. …
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  School of Seven Bells Debut New Record Live

  June 3, 2010 – If there were any opening night jitters, they were shared equally between the sound guy and a MacBook. After guitarist Benjamin Curtis and keyboardist-singer Claudia Deheza stared pleadingly into the glow of a malfunctioning laptop, the machine finallycame to life, the lights went low, and a playful bellow of "It's about fucking time! …
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  The New New York Cool

  February 26, 2009 – LISSY TRULLIE "I wanna punch the next guy who says that I 'actually' play the guitar well," sneers Lissy Trullie. "When people are still surprised by something like that, I'm like, 'Fuck you.' " Trullie wasn't always so brash. Though she'd played in various bands since moving to New York City from Washington, D.C., the longtime Germs and Ramones fan was content to stay in the shadows. …
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