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CTC Bio...

CTC is comprised of "Judith Bad" and Mario "Guitario" Sandoval - both on vocals and guitar, Tony Nearman on bass, and Cale Miller on drums. Together they play tight-and-messy rock anthems with enough enthusiasm to give a coked up Televangelist a run for their money.

CTC's ferocious live shows are fun, rough and exhilarating, and the band brings the same level of barely contained chaos whether they're playing a house party or the Black Cat. The band's sound is unfiltered rock tinged by a wide variety of influences, including such artists as Nirvana, Local H, Morphine, Sleater-Kinney, AC/DC, the Pixies, Fugazi, the Band, Joan Jett, Soundgarden, Danzig, Clutch, and the Smashing Pumpkins.

CTC's first release, a six-song EP called "Pulling Too Much Amperage," was unleashed during winter 2005. Later they recorded another EP entitled "Fight the Feedback". Right now, as you read these words, the band is putting the finishing touches on a full-length album slated to debut in early fall. And no, I won't tell you what it's called. It's a surprise.

Mario and Cale met at a roller derby competition while hitting on the same girl (she left with the bartender). They got to talking and realized they both had a passion to ROCK. But how could it be done? They searched far and wide for the answer and they found it in JudyBad. She was selling seashells down by the sea shore and found her profession was hard to say quickly. When the fellas approached her to join the band, she gladly accepted the offer. "It sure beat living out of my van with a back seat full of seashells," said Miss Bad, "Besides, I don't like dirt."

The trio gigged around for a couple of years when they finally had a meeting. "We were missing something tall, something low, and something loud..." commented Cale. The other two agreed so they got into Judy's smelly van and started driving South by SouthWest. They were just around the Kentucky border when Mario spotted Tony on the side of the road playing an electric bass with no amplifer and an empty hat in front of him. "At first we were afraid to approach him, I mean the smell was awful," mentioned Mario, "but then I remembered we had just gotten out of Judy's van so I figured the smell was probably me."

And it's been a Rockin' good time ever since! CTC manage to be passionate about their music without taking themselves too seriously, and their energy is infectious. They're just four people who live to play and clearly love what they're doing.

"Being in a band is like being in a family," says Judy. "We fight like a family, we piss each other off like a family, we love like a family, and we talk shit like a family."