It was an introduction in a Boston basement apartment that led to the formation of an ambitious duo, that would end up on the streets of New York and ultimately evolve into its’ most significant incarnation as PLEASE.

By that time co-founder Paul Casanova had picked up his first real Big Apple gig coordinating and booking the CMJ convention while Charles Newman built a studio doing production work that would lead to the foundation of the Mother West studio and label where they made their first demos, and three college charting records; Noreally Thanks, The Electric Living Room, and Sentimental Watermelon.

As luck would have it in the early days the internet, Newman connected via an AOL listing with a music supervisor that was assembling the music that would become the platinum selling Empire Records Soundtrack. It was to their astonishment that PLEASE’s music was being considered alongside radio toppers of the day like The Cranberries, Toad The Wet Sprocket, and The Gin Blossoms.