About MakeMe

MakeMe is the product of many years of yearning, gesticulating, and gesturing in a certain direction, with girls blossomed into women and men retreating more and more into boyhood. They started as a gentle twee outfit and played shows and people liked them okay. Zola Goodrich played bass and sang, Claire Haynie played keyboards and sang, and Goodrich's math-rocker ex-boyfriend played drums. They went on hiatus when Goodrich was courted by Boyskout to play keys. She destroyed her bank account and academic career in the process, but met then fourth or fifth drummer for the band, Jesse Rivkin. In a coup she wrenched the then eager Rivkin from the clutches of the queer-core band and reincarnated MakeMe with keyboardist, Haynie, and noise-guitar novice Jeremy Sullivan, whom she met working the east bay record store circuit. Through handful of raucous house parties they defined their sound as somewhere between where a girl calls herself grrrl and a boy calls himself twee. A major turning point for the band came on the tip of Rivkin's oblong skull. It so happened that while 3-songs deep into the set, sharing a backline at The Knockout, drummer Rivkin could no longer deal with a particular drum hardware malfunction, nor the band itself, and ran off screaming into the San Francisco night. A bewildered band and an alcohol-and-antics excited crowd begged for more, despite the apparent lack of drummer. Audience member and Okie, Wes Chase, bravely took to the drum throne, and faked his way through the rest of the set, which contained 5 encores. He became their then and current drummer, and married keyboardist Haynie to boot. Their sound has matured into a more straightforward rock sound, with modern guitar tones and pointed pop structures. Their new album, House of Brakes, is an album about things you start that you can't stop. 9 songs about relationships, transportation, loss, getting older, and infinity. Guy/girl vocals, solid, pounding drum work, and balanced keyboards voices that create a sense of anxiety without aggression, and uncertainty without confusion. House of Brakes was released on white vinyl in a limited quantity and supported by a national tour. What lies ahead for MakeMe is most likely an album of covers, an album of painstakingly beautiful gorgeous rock goodness, babies, drug use, bankruptcy, and lots and lots of red lipstick, not necessarily in that order. And they'd like you to know that they thought that they told you that they won't stop.