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Tennis is an American indie pop band from Denver made up of husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley. During their first tour, James Barone joined the band on drums. The couple met each other while studying philosophy in college, and started the band after they got back from a seven-month sailing expedition down the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard. They took their name from a joke about Patrick Riley playing tennis in college. Prior to joining Tennis, Moore's earliest singing experience was in church choirs during her youth.

Their first releases, both in July 2010, were the "Baltimore" EP on the Underwater Peoples label and the "South Carolina" single on Fire Talk. Tennis released their first studio album, Cape Dory on Fat Possum Records in January 2011. The album, featured on NPR., is based on the couple's experiences during their sailing trip.

The second Tennis album Young & Old was released on Fat Possum Records on February 14, 2012, produced by Patrick Carney of The Black Keys. The album's single "Origins" was issued on Forest Family Records on December 6, 2011.

Tennis have displayed a knack for covers, with self-released (digital) versions of "Tell Her No" by The Zombies, "Is It True?" by Brenda Lee, and "Tears in the Typing Pool" by Broadcast.

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Date Venue Location Tickets
08.10.12 Golden Gate Park - Polo Field San Francisco, CA US
08.12.12 El Rey Theatre (LA) Los Angeles, CA US
08.15.12 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ US

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Scoring Love with Tennis: Songs of Love, Life and Lust
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Scoring Love with Tennis: Songs of Love, Life and Lust

By Laura Studarus, eMusic Contributor

As Tennis, husband/wife team Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore temper sugar-sweet pop with a scrappy, garage-rock attitude. Their sophomore album Young & Old (produced by the Black Keys' Patrick Carney) is an irony-free, nostalgia-ready trip, featuring girl-group refrains, Beach Boy-style harmonies, and just a hint of R&B attitude. Moore credits their shared love of music as a major factor in their romance - even if it took more than a year for them to start writing… more »

Label Profile: Fat Possum Records
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Label Profile: Fat Possum Records

By Marc Hogan, eMusic Contributor

File Under: From raw, gutbucket blues to soul, rock and pop with a similar unspoiled spirit Flagship Acts: R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Solomon Burke, the Black Keys, Andrew Bird, Band of Horses, Dinosaur Jr., Wavves, the Walkmen, Smith Westerns, Yuck, Tennis Based In: Oxford, Mississippi Like the Delta bluesmen whose records he started Fat Possum to release, Matthew Johnson is part of a dying breed. Rock owes much of its early legacy to eccentric, mostly European-descended label owners… more »

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