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September 7, 2005 "It was fantastic...we were playing really early on, so we didn't really know if people were going to come out. I mean, it was our hometown and everything, but we didn't know if anyone was going to come out. We ended up having a pretty good draw."

August 4, 2005 "The Redwalls Capitol-issued sophomore set, De Nova, is an Anglophile's dream, full of jangly Fab-Four-isms and sharp takes on Americana."

August 4, 2005 "We've known each other for so long. It's pretty much like we're all brothers in a way. It's what keeps us going."

July 28, 2005 "We really are into all that old music - The Temptations, all sorts of soul music. We actually try more to pride ourselves on having voices that have some kind of soul to them as opposed to just being The Monkees."

July 18, 2005 " of 10 Must-See Acts at Lollapalooza"

July 14, 2005 "A friend of ours drove us all around, he hasn't drove in England for probably…umm…his whole life (laughing). He was losing his mind trying to drive stick shift on the wrong side of the road."

July 12, 2005 "Meet The Redwalls"

July 8, 2005 "My favourite is 'Hung Up On The Way I'm Feeling'. Overall it was fun to record because of everything that we were trying to do in the studio. I think that came out almost exactly like we wanted it to. That is not to say the other tracks didn't, but sonically the feel and the sound and everything about it makes it my favourite."

July 8, 2005 "I think those [bands] are the most recognizable, the ones that will put you in a box -- I mean, 'This is this and that is that.' We really went all over the board [on De Nova]. I think if you listen closely, you'll hear other shit there, too."

July 8, 2005 "For all their varied but familiar influences, the Redwalls make some real good rock noise, and I can't stop playing the album."

July 7, 2005 "We're a good rock 'n' roll band that wants to write good songs...We don't want to be compared to anyone or in any genre."

July 7, 2005 "We decided (Deerfield) wasn't really where it was at, so we decided to go downtown, and started playing after the headliners at 3 a.m. at a few clubs. At one bar we were kinda the resident band -- the manager booked us there to go on before or after the big groups."

July 5, 2005 "(We're) a good rock 'n' roll band that wants to write good songs," said bassist Justin. "We don't want to be compared to anyone or in any genre."

June 30, 2005 "It helps that most of us have played together for so long, especially when it comes to writing. We just know what to expect from each other, which makes it easier."

June 29, 2005 "We've been on the road for a month and a half. You get it down to a science and it every day it really comes together better. It keeps building."

June 28, 2005 "...the band itself -- Mr. Baren and his bassist brother, Justin, plus lead guitarist Andrew Langer and drummer Justin Kozen -- plays with such a come-party-with-us spirit of boozy, brawling fun, you'll swear it's a pack of British yobbos, not American suburbanites in their 20s."

June 27, 2005 "Not since Material Issue has a local rock-pop act had such tuneful means and hit-making potential. In addition to air-walking rhythms, ringing hooks, sincere vocals and contagious choruses, the Redwalls possessed the fresh looks and spirit of a group not yet jaded by music-industry convention."

June 26, 2005 "The Redwalls celebrated in style by performing the album in its entirety for an adoring hometown crowd, including several songs they'd never performed live, and beefing up their sound to match the album by adding a three-piece horn section, Scott Ligon on Hammond B3 organ and Fender Rhodes and their manager Mitch Marlow on auxiliary keyboards."

June 24, 2005 "...the group's real strength is in its soul-, blues- and Motown-inflected rhythms. The Brits can never quite groove or lock into a powerhouse backbeat like their American cousins, and the Redwalls are a heck of a dance band."

June 24, 2005 "The cool thing is that we all like the same music - old rock 'n' roll and R&B and all that stuff," Greeno said. "There's not like a lead person in the band. Whoever writes a song, sings it. It's a very democratic process."

June 23, 2005 "The Redwalls are four energetic young things from Chicago that both you and your parents can like."

June 22, 2005 "We had an experience on XRT [93.1-FM] where we were trying out a new song and we slipped in an F bomb. It was like 1 a.m., but the DJ still freaked out. The next day we wrote that song. It's just a reflection on how people can get so upset about a simple word."

June 21, 2005 "Producer Rob Schnapf integrates all the requisite flourishes - Ben Greeno's drums are terrifically well mixed, with a bar-fight whomp - and gives these Deerfield kids a chance to prove they're more than talented mockingbirds."

June 20, 2005 "Producer Rob Schnapf keeps things sounding lean and mean, capturing the sound of '60s British Invasion bands morphing into something slightly tougher and more rough around the edges."

June 19, 2005 "Following in the Beatles' footsteps, the Redwalls have come into their own"

"[The Redwalls] take the more conservative dadrock triptych (the Beatles, Faces, the Stones) as their blueprint but do it with such spirit that we're tempted to write the last 35 years of musical development off here and now.'

June 13, 2005 "The Redwalls have an energy that a nuclear power plant would appreciate."

June 13, 2005 "They place a premium on elements long missing from the rock landscape: blue-eyed soul harmonies, guitar breaks that ring out like little songs in themselves, and swinging grooves. And they echo a long line of Chicago-area power-pop and garage-rock bands, from the Shadows of Knight to Material Issue, who perfected the art of the melodically rich, guitar-driven three-minute single."

May 26, 2005 "The funny thing about goals: You have a goal to go on tour, you have a goal to be signed, but after you reach that goal, it doesn't seem like a whole lot. You're already on to the next goal. You never really get the chance to look back."

May 26, 2005 "Their British invasion-style pop music was pretty fucking authentic for a bunch of young guys from Chicago."

April 26, 2005 "Opening bands have been the smart bet in San Francisco of late. Last night at Cafe du Nord, Chicago rockers The Redwalls proved that you can upstage the group everyone is there to see like it ain't no big thing."

March 16, 2005 "Their danceable, hard-edged pop had the crowd going nuts. With the good times they were having unmistakably painted on their faces, they shook up the more subtle vibe of the evening for the better."

February 2005 "There's nothing tainted about it. It is what it is, and it's straight up. They're not trying to be complex at all or trying to be artsy or be people that they're not. They just made music for the way they were feeling at the time, and rock 'n' roll was the way they expressed it."

February 24, 2005 "Onstage, their youthful enthusiasm and earnest passion remind the crowd what most concerts today are lacking; a level of innocent enjoyment that all music should produce."

February 16, 2005 "These guys have songs that stick in the head and an energy onstage that can't be resisted."

February 14, 2005 "Yeah, these guys are barely out of their teens. But don't expect to hear a scratch re-mix of one of their tunes."

February 4, 2005 "Their live mix of powerful electric guitars with a classic rock vibe is awe-inspiring."

February 4, 2005 "It's cool to play Hideout and being able to see the reactions immediately, but there's also something cool about playing the big venues. We got picked up very early and we didn't have time to establish that (local audience), but I think now, with XRT (93.1FM Chicago) being behind us, Chicago is starting to get behind us as well."

January 28, 2005 "The Chicago-based four piece is undeniably a checklist of what every band needs to get girls swooning: a "The" band name; shaggy bed-ridden hair; boyish good looks; and most importantly, music that is retro & surprisingly soulful yet catchy."