*2009 Unicity Festival
*2008 Unicity Festival (w/ The Fixx)
*2008 Baltimore Music Conference Showcase Artist
*2008 Millennium Music Conference Showcase Artist
*2007 Millennium Music Conference Showcase Artist
*2007 Midpoint Music Festival Showcase Artist
*2007 OS National Band Search Showcase Artist
*2007 Mid Atlantic Music Conference Featured Artist
Recent Reviews:
"Maximum Ink Magazine"
Philadelphia's The Underhills mix John Mellencamp's sincerity with a bit of modern Goo Goo Dolls' sensibility. Add in a little of Ed Kowlczyk's vocals and their “The Road From Here…” makes Adult Alternative Contemporary sound like a compliment, rather than an insult. These boys are earnest, and that's the first thing you hear in David Rossi's impassioned vocals. Paul Toland's succulent lead guitar work, especially the clean tone noodling on “Dreams American” and the riffage of “1000 Years,” is precise to the point of drawing blood. There's some kind of shtick about the lead singer and guitarist being brothers, but who knows what that's about (there's no genes shared, but maybe they just mean musical family?). Who's really going to worry about that when the songs are so hooky? This is rock aimed right at the heart of the '90s alt-rock crowd that loved R.E.M., Live, and Toad The Wet Sprocket. If you like those bands, you'll definitely like The Underhills. It's serious-sounding rock that's easy to sing along to, and they throw in a little acoustic sensitivity every once in awhile to keep the girls into it. Adding up on the cool points, they include a couple of remixes at the end of the CD as a bonus. If you liked pop music when real people played real instruments, then get this disc.
~Mike Huberty / Maximum Ink Music Magazine
"City Beat Magazine" / Cincinnatti
Making jaunty, jangly Pop Rock laced with tranquil melodies and precise harmonies, Philadelphia's "The Underhills" are a brotherly act, featuring a pair of twins on vocals and guitars. Born on a dairy farm, the two moved around the country looking for their niche in the music biz. They both ended up going on spiritual quests, dabbling in freedom fighting, and NRA spokesperson-ing. OK.so all that's a big fat lie, but that's what it says on their myspace page. Very funny guys. I guess next you're going to tell me you're not 101 years old??
If you dig the Everly Brothers raised on Toad the Wet Sprocket, you'll definitely dig this.
"Campus Philly Magazine"
.they recently released their latest album, The Road from Here…, an album with notable songwriting, as well as catchy beats. The band has an ability to capture a pop sound in one song, then country in the next, then a heavier guitar driven sound the next. The dual vocals of Rossi and Toland compliment each other extremely well. The vocals are backed by two of Philadelphia's most well-regarded musicians: drummer, Harry Doyle and bassist, Keith McCrary.
~Stella Accardo, Campus Philly Magazine
BIOGRAPHY
Born the twin sons of dairy farmers in Minocqua, Wisconsin, Dave and Paul Underhill began playing music together before they could even walk. By the age of 10, the brothers had each carved their own guitar out of mahogany collected from trees located on the distant perimeter of their 500 acre ranch. The nylon seams pulled from the cushions of an old barn stored couch made for guitar strings. It wasn't much, but it was all the twins needed to begin crafting songs that would reflect their journeys through half a lifetime.
After gathering quite a local following playing square dances, church functions, and pie eating contests, the twins started to feel empty, they knew something was missing. By the age of 22 the twins left home in search of a sound that could fill that void that had plagued them throughout their early years.
Their search sent them first to Austin, Texas, then to New Orleans, and then to Nashville. Years had passed, but still nothing. It was at this time that Dave decided that he needed to find himself before he could find a sound. Paul agreed, and thus the twins went there own separate ways.
The following years found Dave as a missionary in the Yucatan Peninsula, preaching the teachings of Jebus, and later as a freedom fighter in the Kingdom of Aksum, Ethiopia. All the while, Dave was drawing on his experiences in the hopes that one day he would meet up again with his twin brother and create the sound for which they searched. Paul's travels took him down a much humbler road.
He first landed a role as a body double for Sylvester Stallone in Universal Cop, followed by a brief stint as spokesman for both the NRA & LGA. He too waited for the day when his brother and he would play once more. In the summer of 2000 the brothers were united once more on the streets of Philadelphia.
They had lived the lives of many and were ready to write the songs that would unleash their epic tale.
Here's Mitch riding the big gay swing. Rawr!!!!!
