Though it sounds like a warning that might hang in the window of an electronics store, Oh No Not Stereo is actually a band looking to leave their mark on the rock ‘n’ roll scene. The band, formed in 2003 by duo Sky Neilson and Mykul Lee, has been amping it up ever since.

“We started out conceptually as a duo,” Neilson said. “We recorded our first record and toured for a year and a half. We had a big amp set and made it louder so it would not sound like a conventional duo.”

The name of the band comes from an ATV accident in 1993 that Neilson was involved in that left him deaf in his right ear.

“I grew up playing music without [hearing in the right ear],” Neilson said. “I had to retrain myself. When I started to play with [Lee], I had that name, Oh No Not Stereo, always in the back of my mind. I had it written on my dresser.”

Over the years, the name has become more significant to Neilson.

“I started looking at it in a different way,” he said. “People cannot believe that this sound is coming from a duo and that it was just the two of us doing everything. So it kind of had double meaning now.”

Neilson contends that the sound and feel of the band’s music comes from a lot of different influences.

“It’s high energy, melodic, dynamic rock ‘n’ roll,” Neilson said. “It is kind of like Foo Fighters meets the Beatles. We like a kind of music, and you can tell when you listen to it.”

The bands new album, 003 (Moxie Star, 2009), builds upon the previous albums that the band has put out.

“When we were titling our first record, we titled it 001,” Neilson said. “It kind of symbolized hundreds of things to come. We just stuck to that with the first three records, like with 003. Even if the records in the future have titles that are not numeric, they will still have nicknames like that.”

In their records, they want to make sure that each song is different from the others.

“We have soft songs and heavy songs,” Neilson said. “We have the hybrids that start off soft and build up. We know when to chill out and that’s what makes us able to reach out to more audiences, I think, to make a wider fan base.”

When it comes to advice for young musicians, Neilson believes it’s all about songs.

“You’ve got to have content,” Neilson said. “It’s the age of exposing content right now. It’s so easy to take content and expose it online for free. If you work for it, anything can happen.”

The band is planning on touring this summer beginning in Toronto and making their way back down through the states. Neilson said he would like to try to make a stop in St. Louis, not just to play but to try toasted ravioli.

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