Radio de Sound Team

Sound Team was an American band based in Austin, TX. Several of the band's previous and current members--including Bill Baird, Michael Baird, Will Patterson, Jordan Johns, and Sam Sanford--attended Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio, TX, where they played music in several different loud ensembles. Oliver attended High School in Houston and in Paris, briefly. Eventually they all ended up in Austin. Bill Baird and Matt Oliver met in Austin in 2001, when each was a sideman in one of the many pick-up groups playing the beer-joints around town. A rocky partnership was formed, and they immediately began recording crazy songs on cheap gear that drew inspiration out of everything from traditional American folk and pop song forms to German synthesizer music.