Benjamin Curtis, who played guitar in School of Seven Bells and Secret Machines, died on Sunday following a battle with T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. He was 35.
Benjamin Curtis Dies
Curtis announced his cancer diagnosis in February 2013. The rare cancer, which attacks the immune system, required him to receive expensive treatments for which he had no health insurance to cover. Curtis’ friends, members of The Strokes and Interpol, played a benefit concern in New York City in August to raise money. His Seven Bells bandmate Alley Deheza started a website for donations as well.
“Last night, Dec. 29th 2013, we lost our friend and brother Benjamin Curtis to his fight against cancer,” a post on the School of Seven Bells Facebook page read. “We can’t thank all of you who supported him and his music through the years enough.… You made it possible for all of us, and for him, to see...
Benjamin Curtis Dies
Curtis announced his cancer diagnosis in February 2013. The rare cancer, which attacks the immune system, required him to receive expensive treatments for which he had no health insurance to cover. Curtis’ friends, members of The Strokes and Interpol, played a benefit concern in New York City in August to raise money. His Seven Bells bandmate Alley Deheza started a website for donations as well.
“Last night, Dec. 29th 2013, we lost our friend and brother Benjamin Curtis to his fight against cancer,” a post on the School of Seven Bells Facebook page read. “We can’t thank all of you who supported him and his music through the years enough.… You made it possible for all of us, and for him, to see...
- 1/2/2014
- Uinterview
Secret Machines guitarist Benjamin Curtis has died at the age of 35. The musician passed away on Sunday, Dec. 29, after battling with lymphatic cancer. His other band, School of Seven Bells, announced the news on its Facebook page Monday, Dec. 30. "Last night, Dec. 29th 2013, we lost our friend and brother Benjamin Curtis to his fight against cancer," the statement read. "While we had hoped to delay this announcement until a more suitable time when his friends and family could feel better prepared and settled [...]...
- 1/1/2014
- Us Weekly
Washington, January 1: Benjamin Curtis has passed away at the young age of 35.
'The Secret Machines' band member, who was diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Cancer last year, died on December 29 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York City, Contactmusic reported.
Curtis, who was a native of Oklahoma, was also a forming member of School of Seven Bells. (Ani)...
'The Secret Machines' band member, who was diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Cancer last year, died on December 29 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York City, Contactmusic reported.
Curtis, who was a native of Oklahoma, was also a forming member of School of Seven Bells. (Ani)...
- 1/1/2014
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Secret Machines guitarist Benjamin Curtis sadly passed away at the age of 35 Sunday, Dec. 30. The musician died of T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma cancer after being diagnosed less than a year ago. The co-founder of the popular indie band School of Seven Bells passed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, according to the band's manager Brady Brock. Curtis originally hailed from Oklahoma but lived in Dallas in the recent years where he played in Secret Machines. Brock told the New York Daily News that Curtis had moved to the Big Apple recently to form Seven Bells with Alejandra Deheza. The band's Facebook page posted the announcement, saying, "We lost our...
- 12/31/2013
- E! Online
Dallas (AP) — Benjamin Curtis, guitarist and co-founder of the popular indie-rock band School of Seven Bells, has died of cancer. He was 35. Brady Brock with New York-based GoldVE Entertainment, which co-manages the band, says Curtis died Sunday evening of lymphoblastic lymphoma at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Curtis was diagnosed just under a year ago. An Oklahoma native, Curtis lived in Dallas, where he played in bands including Tripping Daisy and Secret Machines. Brock says Secret Machines relocated to New York before Curtis went on to form School of Seven Bells with Alejandra de la Deheza. Brock...
- 12/31/2013
- by AP Staff
- Hitfix
The Associated Press reports that Benjamin Curtis, guitarist and co-founder of the indie-rock band School of Seven Bells, died after a long battle with cancer. He was 35. Brady Brock with New York-based GoldVE Entertainment, which co-manages the band, told the AP that Curtis died Sunday evening of lymphoblastic lymphoma at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Curtis was first diagnosed just under a year ago. An Oklahoma native, Curtis lived in Dallas where he played in bands including Tripping Daisy and Secret Machines. Brock says Secret Machines relocated to New York before Curtis went on to form School of Seven Bells with Alejandra de la Deheza. Brocks, s a guitarist, was aslo described as an innovative composer...
- 12/31/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Benjamin Curtis, the Dallas-based indie rock guitarist and drummer who was a part of the Secret Machines during their 2004 breakout “Now Here is Nowhere,” has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 35. According to the Dallas Observer, Curtis died Sunday night in New York. See photos: Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2013 (Photos) Curtis, a native Oklahoman, was a staple in the Dallas music scene, where he and brother Brandon played for local band Ufofu in the mid 1990s. Benjamin played drums for Tripping Daisy for a few years before the Curtis brothers re-teamed with Josh Garza to form Secret.
- 12/31/2013
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
Band also breaks out favorites 'NYC,' 'Evil' in Santa Monica, California, recording studio.
By Ryan J. Downey
Paul Banks of Interpol performs onstage September 6
Photo: Jeremiah Garcia/ Kcrw
Santa Monica, California — They may have named a new song "Barricade," but there was nothing of the sort separating Interpol from their fans Monday night as they performed for 150 lucky people in a small recording studio on the eve of their new album's release. The performance will air Thursday on Kcrw's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" radio show, alongside a short interview.
The band played eight songs, more than half of them from their self-titled fourth album, which was released Tuesday (September 7). Fan favorites like "NYC" were included, with the invite-only audience joining frontman Paul Banks in the "But hey, who's on trial?" refrain during a set-closing "Evil."
In less than two weeks, the New York band will open for U2 in giant venues,...
By Ryan J. Downey
Paul Banks of Interpol performs onstage September 6
Photo: Jeremiah Garcia/ Kcrw
Santa Monica, California — They may have named a new song "Barricade," but there was nothing of the sort separating Interpol from their fans Monday night as they performed for 150 lucky people in a small recording studio on the eve of their new album's release. The performance will air Thursday on Kcrw's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" radio show, alongside a short interview.
The band played eight songs, more than half of them from their self-titled fourth album, which was released Tuesday (September 7). Fan favorites like "NYC" were included, with the invite-only audience joining frontman Paul Banks in the "But hey, who's on trial?" refrain during a set-closing "Evil."
In less than two weeks, the New York band will open for U2 in giant venues,...
- 9/7/2010
- MTV Music News
“Choirgirl” is something of an empty descriptor, but maybe that’s why it fits for the voices of identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza: They sing with a kind of crisp breathiness, delivering lyrics in a clear tone that’s as mannered as it is lovely. They’re plenty talented, but their talents don’t make School Of Seven Bells essential. As on 2008’s similarly sleepy Alpinisims, Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines pairs their voices with precisely arranged but relentlessly conventional post-shoegaze, post-trip-hop dream-rock. “Dust Devil” demonstrates the conundrum at the heart of this band: While it marries cool-sounding ...
- 7/13/2010
- avclub.com
Half the fun of listening to South Africa’s Blk Jks is trying to imagine just what these guys listen to. Have they really been subsisting on a steady diet of The Mars Volta and TV On The Radio for the last few years? Or, due to whatever culture filters exist between Western shores and the tip of Africa, are they listening to an even stranger jumble—some radio station that plays Pere Ubu, Led Zeppelin, and U2? The band traveled to New York’s famed Electric Lady Studios to record its debut LP under the tutelage of Secret Machines ...
- 9/8/2009
- avclub.com
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