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Daphne Loves Derby
Biography
Like Nirvana did almost two decades previously, the pop-friendly indie trio Daphne Loves Derby originally formed in a small town near Seattle, WA (Kent rather than Aberdeen, in their case) when the bandmembers were still teenagers. However, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic didn't have the Internet when they were kids, so they didn't have the opportunities to jump the queue afforded by websites like MySpace and purevolume, and Cobain's personal demons are nowhere to be found in this young group's tuneful and relatively sunny music.

One of the new generation of bands whose high online profiles led to a relatively quick record deal, Daphne Loves Derby formed in 2002 when a 14-year-old prodigy named Jason Call sent an instant message to high-school sophomore Kenny Choi after he saw Choi's first band play a local party. Choi, a singer and guitarist, accepted Call's invitation to jam with the young bassist and the equally youthful drummer Stu Clay. Fitting rehearsals around their academic schedule (impressively, Call managed to graduate not only from high school, but from college, in time for his 18th birthday), Call, Choi, and Clay made their public debut at a local music festival where they learned just before they went on-stage that there was already another band with their original name; Choi impulsively announced that their new name was Daphne Loves Derby, a meaningless handle that nonetheless stuck.