The August 2009 issue of Spin magazine listed The Turn-ons in their 100 "Greatest bands that you've (probably) never heard."

The Turn-ons formed in 1997 in Seattle when singer/guitarist Travis DeVries met musically like-minded guitarist, Corey Gutch. The two were soon joined by bassist Sharon Oshima and drummer Will Hallauer. They caught the eye of REM's Peter Buck who described the band in his column for Q magazine, as "...simply my favourite new Seattle band. If I said that their sound was a combination of the Velvets, T. Rex and Spiritualized with a dash of Yo La Tengo, it wouldn't do them justice."

Producer/multi-instrumentalist Erik Blood was added to the band in late 2000, and the lineup was, at last, complete.The band spent much of 2001 promoting their debut album 'The Turn-ons', playing sold-out shows in Seattle and San Francisco with bands such as the Strokes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Imperial Teen, and tirelessly writing and recording new material.

On April 1, 2008, the Turn-ons released their 4th & 5th full length albums, "Curse" & "The Darkest Light[out-takes, demos, & alternates]". Both albums are available for free to download from their web page www.theturn-ons.com.

The new album, Death to God, by Travis DeVries, can be heard here on last.fm at the following link:
http://www.last.fm/music/Travis+DeVries/Death+to+God

Members of The Turn-ons continue to collaborate and contribute to each other's projects. Blood records and produces DeVries solo project, as well as Hallauer's solo project The Little Penguins. Blood records and produces numerous projects (including The Lights, Shabazz Palaces, etc.), as well as his own Erik Blood solo project. Gutch and Hallauer are both permanent members of Blood's live band, and both contribute guitar and percussion (respectively) to both DeVries and Blood's solo recording projects.

http://www.last.fm/music/Erik+Blood

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Little+Penguins
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