Matt Parmenter

Bass & Backing Vocals

Matt Parmenter is a bassist, guitarist, and a skilled recording engineer and producer with an award winning studio, an absurd collection of microphones, and a lot of albums under his belt in his 20+ year recording career.

He tried to get into bands as a teenaged keyboard player in mid-Michigan, but had no luck until he picked up a bass and got good enough to join a metal band. Things went downhill fast from there. He spent some time in industrial bands in Chicago and played in a few bands with members of Over The Rhine and Walk The Moon in Cincinnati while running a studio in an old ice cream factory. In 2008 he moved to Austin, where he joined Quiet Company and ran around making music with them for quite a long while, with a fair degree of success. He left the band to focus on his recording studio and immediately got pulled back in to Belcurve, played with them for a while before re-re-focusing on the studio, and now he’s excited to rejoin the world of performing musicians on bass with Tim Kile.

Rachel Fuhrer

Drums

Rachel Fuhrer is an Austin, TX based drummer currently playing with Tim Kile and the Vines of Love, Ram Vela and the Easy Targets, Citizen Banned Radio and Many Birthdays. In past years, Rachel was the touring drummer for Ben Kweller as well as the artist Christeene (featuring Peter Stopschinski and Roddy Bottum of Faith No More). Recent highlights have included performing on the Austin City Limits Miller Lite Stage with Ben Kweller as well as a sold-out show at London’s historic Barbican Theater with Christeene. In addition to extensive US touring with Ben Kweller, work with Ben also included filming the music video “Careless” with LA director Steve Hanft (Beck, Hank Williams III).

Rachel has formerly toured, played drums and/or recorded for Ume (Dangerbird Records, Modern Outsider), Eric McFadden (Eric Burden, P Funk All Stars), Cory Glover (Living Colour), and many more. She’s also played drums for many local bands and artists that have helped define the Austin rock sound such as Quiet Company, Moving Panoramas, Tina Piranha, Poon, The Electronic Planet Ensemble feat. David Jewel, The Invincible Czars, Panoramic Voices, We’ll Go Machete and more. She has preformed at many festivals including the Rock En Sein Festival in Paris, France, SXSW, Austin City Limits, Fun, Fun, Fun and many more. Rachel has performed at the Austin Music Hall as direct support for bands like Wu-Tang Clan and Erykah Badu, and has opened for Blondie, TV on the Radio, Janes Addiction, Cage the Elephant, Smashing Pumpkins, Helmet, the Toadies and many more.

Rachel also enjoys being involved in theater, orchestra, ensemble, and contemporary avant-garde productions. Work in this field has included countless performances at the Vortex theater, Performances at Mary Moody Theater including runs of Caberet and Violet, performances for NMASS, Church of the Friendly Ghost and more.

Rachel is an official Gretsch Drums, Vater drumsticks, Soultone Cymbals and Porter and Davies artist. She has been featured in Modern Drummer magazine, Rolling Stone magazine, Tom Tom magazine, and Drum! magazine as well as appeared on No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain and Last Call with Carson Daily.

When Rachel isn’t touring she enjoys a full roster of private students as well as coaching rock groups. Rachel is an alum of Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA.

Mathew Smith

Keyboards & Backing Vocals

Mathew received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of South Carolina in Music Theory and Composition. While in school, Mathew toured throughout the southeast US with the Root Doctors and local ska/funk band Eartha Baxter. He also completed a stint with the Columbia-based rock band Autonomous with John Stout and Craig Butterfield and 80's new wave pop cover band Total Recall.

For over three decades, Mathew has also composed, arranged, designed for and taught various school band programs throughout the country, including extensive work with the jazz programs of Richland School District 2 in Columbia, SC.

Mathew currently owns a digital design and music production studio in North Austin (TX), where he lives with his wife Julia and two youngest children, Nathan and Avery.