Charlie Belle is an Austin, Texas-based trio comprised of three teenagers with 30-plus years of music-making between them. The group, comprised of sister and brother Jendayi Bonds (vocals, guitar) and Gyasi Bonds (drums, vocals), and Zoe Czarnecki (bass), deliver a welcomed update of the 90’s English alternapop sound on its debut EP Get To Know, which will see a national release on January 13th, 2015.
This fresh collection of catchy sing-alongs brings to mind The Sundays, Belly, and The Lemonheads (more popular in the UK than their native Boston, after all!) to name a few. Charlie Belle named for the Bonds siblings great-grandmother further sites Esperanza Spalding, The Strokes, and the Arctic Monkeys as more contemporary influences. In fact, Jendayi hopes to co-write with Arctic Monkeys front man Alex Turner someday.