Melissa Rodenbeek and Hiram Lucke formed The Harvey Girls in August of 2003 in Lawrence, Kansas. The group, named after the waitresses who served travelers in the American West from the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries along the AT&SF railways, combine the melodies of bubblegum pop with experimentation in sound. Their music stands as a cross between Prince Paul's production work and the songs of the Shangri-Las (that's what we're sticking with; feel free to come up with your own description).

The Harvey Girls are a group that can argue about the merits of a much-needed editor for David Foster Wallace (or anyone who uses three damn names for that matter), claim that ABBA is the greatest pop group of all time without an ironic smirk, and bake you a decent cake for your birthday. If you would like a list of our favorite acronyms, to know what we have been reading lately, or to let us know what day your birthday falls on, you can just drop us a line.

An Interview with Melissa and Hiram from Rock Kansas.
Another interview with us from The Pitch.
Lawrence.com podcast with Hiram and Melissa.
Melissa curated the December 2005 edition of Muted Tones.

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Our Latest is The Wild Farewell, available from SVC Records as a download or as a CDR from us. Here's what some people are saying:
Erasing Clouds
3hive
Said the Gramophone
Delusions of Adequacy
Lawrencian (scroll to page 15)
No-Fi Magazine (scroll down a bit)
Lawrence.com

Head to our Imaginary Albums debut,
The Harvey Girls: The Harvey Girls
(not the most inspired title, we admit, but it was better than "Greatest Misses" or "50, 000 people have never heard of this band"--since it's kind of a greatest-hits-as-picked-by-Craig-Boyko album)

A review of the harvey girls: the harvey girls
Millieu

Blabber n Smoke
Delusions of Adequacy
An Idiot's Guide to Dreaming
Spoilt Victorian Child
Fluxblog
Dr. Gunni
(in Icelandic--scroll to 02.01.05., which is getting farther and farther down. It translates--thanks to an Icelandic fan--to:
Another marriage. Bumped into this while musicblogsurfing. Cool song
from some americans who will probably never make the charts.
We are, apparently rightly so, taking this as a compliment.)
Splendid
Lawrence.com

the biggest book you'll never read
Rockkansas.com
Delusions of Adequacy
Splendid

"That was so much better than spending $2 on tacos."
--Marcus (?)