Career
The group's self-titled debut album was released on Bar/None Records in America in July 2006, Shock Records in Australia and Fabtone Records in Japan. It has since been released in the UK via Smalltown America in March 2007, with the initial pressing selling out and currently being re-pressed. It includes a cover of 'Don't Call Me' by Belfast songwriter Tom McShane.
Their first single from the album, a double A-side 7" featuring tracks "Breakfast In NYC", "Truth Or Dare" and B-side "Getting By", was released in the UK via Smalltown America in April 2006. A video for "Breakfast in NYC", directed by Brian Philip Davis was also produced to coincide with the single release, and was made available on the Oppenheimer MySpace page.
The group have toured with Regina Spektor, Architecture in Helsinki, The Bravery, and The Chalets, They've spent over 16 weeks touring the USA, playing events like SXSW, CMJ, Southstreet Seaport music festival and with many of their favourite bands like The Like Young and The Spinto Band.
Their music has been used in various television shows - "How I Met Your Mother" in the episode "Lucky Penny", "Ugly Betty" and "Gossip Girl".
The group played at Forfey Festival in August 2006 and the Glasgowbury Festival on July 21, 2007.
Between November 2007 and March 2008, they toured with They Might Be Giants.
The band's second album, titled Take The Whole Midrange And Boost It was released June 3, 2008 via Bar/None in North America and via Fantastic Plastic in Europe.
They opened for Ok Go with Longwave in March 2009 on their Spring Tour, and as of April 2009, Oppenheimer toured with The Presidents of the United States of America in PUSA's Nor'easter Tour.
The band started recording material for their third album on 19 August.
On 12 December 2009, Oppenheimer announced they would be playing for the last time on 19 December. A digital EP would follow in early 2010 that contained the work they had finished up to that point for the third album. A Farewell EP will be released in 2011 titled "This Racket Takes Its Toll" featuring six new tracks that Oppenheimer were working on at the time of their release.
O'Reilly formed a new band, Malibu Shark Attack!, in March 2010 working with long time Oppenheimer collaborators Angie O'Reilly and Hornby, as well as MC Dizzy Dustin from Long Beach, California.
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