The Smittens are a five-piece indiepop band from Burlington, Vermont and like to think of themselves as a DIY twee pop explosion. Max Andrucki, Colin Clary, Dana Kaplan, Holly Chagnon, and David Zacharis, with help from the talented Emily Hilliard, switch up instruments, song-writing, and singing to create brilliantly lyrical and hyper-catchy pop songs of all colors, shapes and sizes. Formed on a whim at a party in 2002 by a group of popkids who wanted to make for their friends the kind of music they love, the Smittens have emerged as one of the country’s best-loved underground indiepop quintets, with headlining slots in the past year at the New England, New York, and Athens Popfests. The band’s hotly anticipated third album ‘The Coolest Thing about Love’, mixed by Eric Masunaga, will be out in summer, 2008. The band will be touring the US and Europe in the summer and fall of 2008.