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Help a Brotha' Out: Write a Review on Amazon

if Howard Roark could dance

I hate it when this happens: I was casually surfing the net, reading up on NASA’s most recent adventures, checking out my blog stats, and such, when I accidentally stumbled upon the Amazon mp3 listing for “…if Howard Roark could dance”. There is currently one lonely review listed, and it written by some cocky asshole who doesn’t like the album, yet for some reason wants to tell everyone about it. I’m not sure why someone would do that… I mean, if I don’t like an album, I just stop listening to it.

Anyway, I feel like the world would be set right again if you would take a few minutes, log into your Amazon.com account, and give the record a 5-star review. It’s actually quite easy – just scroll to the reviews at the bottom of this page and write a nice thing or two about the record. Or if you don’t want to write about the record, write about your last vacation or about your first date with your husband/wife or about that cute thing your cat does.

I need you. The world needs you. The whole damn universe needs you! (but mostly I need you). I suppose I can give you a PRIZE as well! So, have you got a few minutes? Can you help a brotha’ out?

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Two album reviews!

Hey. I always cringe when I read these things, but Skratch Magazine just wrote, “…the [Cryns #3] album is boiling over with sincerity and soul…”

Read the full review here.

Also, The Rift Magazine wrote:

“Cryns #3′s …if Howard Roark could dance is stripped down and very straightforward…a really good, fun, sweet album.”

Read the full review here.

Interview of Cryns #3

Hey! I was just interviewed by the internationally-reknowned website, Perfect Porridge!! Read the interview below!
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The article below was written by Greg from PerfectPorridge.com and posted on that website on May 9, 2006.

Cryns #3 : …if Howard Roark could dance
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Cryns #3 (pronounced Krines Number Three), the Minneapolis-based indie band, is NOT another dumb indie pop band. In fact, Toby Cryns hates verse/chorus/verse/chorus pop music, and for good reason (it sucks). So when he started fiddling around with riffs in his home studio and e-mailing them off to his brother 2,000 miles away in L.A., it was clear from the beginning they weren’t creating a radio-friendly accessible pop album for mass audiences.

And after almost a year of e-mailing sound files back and forth, Cryn’s fifth full-length album, …if Howard Roark could dance, was born.

Named after the central character in Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead — whose uncompromising creative vision was rarely appreciated by the mass public because of weight placed on group think — there couldn’t be a more appropriate title.

We sat down with guitarist/vocalist and group founder Toby Cryns to talk about Catholicism, Objectivism and who exactly is that John Galt fellow. Read on…

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