Criteria

Artist / Band: Criteria
Song: Prevent The World
Album: When We Break
File Under: Indie Rock
Label: Saddle Creek
Info: Picture, if you will, a diffident young professional. By day, he is entrenched in the beige, climate-controlled world of corporate law. By night, he tirelessly melds face-searing riffs with pounding, syncopated drums, awaiting a rock-n-roll miracle.Criteria's Stephen Pedersen need wait for that miracle no longer. And neither must you.Pedersen wet his pubescent feet playing with a score of Omaha stalwarts, rocking the house with Cursive through multiple tours and the band's first two full-lengths. Then he went to Duke law school, moving on to rock houses in Durham, North Carolina with The White Octave, who released two albums and embarked on several successful tours before Pedersen returned to Omaha in 2001.
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