This Seattle-rooted outfit have been around for nearly three decades, since Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow teamed up in 1986. Their first public performance came as an acoustic duo that next summer. Mike Musberger and Rick Roberts joined soon after, allowing the band to play its first live shows in Seattle and Bellingham.
In late 1989, the band signed to DGC Records. They then released their first album, "Dear 23" for the label in August 1990.
In late 1991, the band recorded many songs that they had spent the previous two years working on. Amongst these were songs written by bassist Rick Roberts, but Jon and Ken later decided that Rick's songs didn't fit with the band and asked him to leave. The entire recording session was then scrapped and is referred to by fans as "the Lost Sessions".
Following a professional and personal split between Auer and Stringfellow at the end of the ‘90s, the second act of The Posies’ career began with 2005’s Every Kind of Light. The group’s first studio album in nearly a decade was a musically plangent and lyrically politicized album -- informed heavily by the foibles of the Bush Administration and the Iraq War – that reintroduced The Posies to the world in grand fashion.
In the ensuing years, the band members pursued various projects on their own.
Jon and Ken came back together in early 2000 for a one-off acoustic show in Seattle, which was recorded and released as In Case You Didn't Feel Like Plugging In.
Writing together once again, Auer and Stringfellow began crafting a new batch of The Poises’ material during the fall of 2009.
Their seventh studio album Blood/Candy was eventually birthed during a furious ten-day session the following spring, as the band decamped to El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain and the famed Paco Loco Studio. It is due for release on 28th September 2010.
