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Droneyard
Droneyard
Origin	East Bay, CA, United States
Genres	Indie rock, indie pop, psychedelic rock, post punk, rock and roll
Years active	2014–present
Labels	Bandcamp
Members	Robert Riley
Past members	Matthew White; Ursula Burgess; Mark Lynn; Jeff Holt; Omer Cohen; Peter Libby; Alex Schaffer; Jonny Flinn;

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Droneyard is an American indie rock band formed in 2014 in the East Bay, California. The only constant member is Robert Riley, and the lineup changes regularly.

History[edit]

Riley and Matthew White met through a Craigslist add in 2013 and bonded over their shared admiration of The Beatles and My Bloody Valentine. They soon recruited Ursula Burgess (bass, vocals) and began to play shows in the Bay Area. Burgess quit shortly thereafter and was replaced on bass for a few shows by Christian Riley, then longer-term by Jeff Holt. The group also added Mark Lynn on guitar for a short period before being reduced to the power trio of Riley, White, and Holt (which only played a show or two). After White's relocating to Portland the band released its first record, "Devolver" (recorded and mixed by White over the previous few years), on Bandcamp. Then followed a period of rapid-lineup changes characterized by constantly changing drummers. The band nevertheless played many shows during this period, and occasionally surprised audiences by performing entire sets of Guided By Voices covers, in one instance covering the entire Bee Thousand album start to finish.

Riley is also a scientist with a Ph.D. in bioinformatics and over 50 peer-reviewed articles on which he is a co-author in PubMed, and is an ultrarunner.

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External links[edit]

Droneyard "Devolver" on Bandcamp [1]