Press:

"Youthful Berkeley quartet the Morning Benders displayed some pretty nifty pop chops, with frontman Chris Chu’s boyish vocals floating over some frisky guitar lines."
-LA Times

"Sort of like a real morning bender, except a lot more catchy and a lot less likely to make you eat something greasy for lunch."
-Stereogum

"The youthful quartet, who’ve been successfully campaigning for the title of SF’s new indie rock darlings, charmed their way through their early Beatles-y repertoire for their first big Noise Pop show so winningly we could almost hear the Wonder Years voiceover as they left the stage."
-Spin Magazine

"This Bay Area band manage to appropriate Pavement’s smirking shamble to their own lovesick, non-smartass ends."
-Pitchfork Media

"The very youthful looking band manages to convey an early Beatles sense of optimism with sweet undertones. Expect big things from them in the future."
-Filter Magazine

"Great songwriting and melodies make for some incredibly catchy songs. I urge you to go check out this EP and if you don’t do it now, I promise that you’ll see and hear of this band again. They have a very bright future."
-The Tripwire

"Perhaps what distinguishes Boarded Doors from the slew of other Wilson-aspirants is the marriage of a youthful outlook with Brill Buildinglike melodies. The songs evoke exuberance and melancholic introspection without drowning in sonic ambition."
-SF Weekly

"Berkeley’s the Morning Benders do a fine job of reminding me of the unassailable power of Spector’s three-minute moments of transcendent pop bliss. Combining a wall of sound; along with doses of another complicated genius, Brian Wilson [...]"
-SF Bay Guardian

"Their laid-back melodies are nigh-impossible to resist[…] Their combination of manners and hummability together goes a long way in our book."
-idolator.com

"With an enviable knack for melody and a dreamy sound all their own, Berkeley natives, The Morning Benders offer us a new release of their first EP: six tracks of blissed-out cool."
-The Owl Mag

We have had the pleasure of recently sharing the stage with:

Yo La Tengo
The Kooks
MGMT
Grand Archives
Yeasayer
Two Gallants
The Rosebuds
Au Revoir Simone
White Rabbits
Pink Mountaintops
Vetiver
The Long Winters
Figurines
Oh No! Oh My!
...any many more!