The Silent Boys

Today's music landscape brims with young hipster bands that ransacked their parents' record collections and concocted a sound that harkens back to the ‘80s guitar pop scene when The Cure, New Order, REM, and The Smiths ruled the college radio airwaves. The Silent Boys have their roots in that vein and are still mining this magically melodic era. They recorded and played the local club circuit in Richmond, Virginia from the mid-‘80s until 1991, when the group all but disbanded.

After an eight-year hiatus and the release of several Silent Boys songs on various indie record labels, Wallace Dietz, songwriter/rythm guitarist/vocalist, reformed The Silent Boys in 1999. Since then he has continued to write songs to pay homage to the iconic ensembles of that musically potent decade with a sound, as one writer noted, comprised of "Ultra-melodic lead guitar, strumming acoustic, snappy drums, and expressive bass-lines (that) propel finely crafted pop songs, brimming with lyrical optimism."

Although the line-up has shifted over the years, The Silent Boys (currently consisting of Wallace Dietz , longtime lead guitarist John Suchocki, drummer John Morand, and bassist Michael Click) retain the exuberance that's driven the band over the course of its collective career. To date, the Silent Boys have released 8 albums, the most recent being TILT-A-WHIRL in May 2020.