Bishop Allen is an American indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York, composed of drummer Jack Delamitraux, guitarist Justin Rice, and guitarist Christian Rudder. Vocal duties are shared among the band's members. Bishop Allen, formed by Rudder and Rice who met while attending Harvard University, grew out of the pair's more humerous punk venture The Pissed Officers. During the spring of 2003 the pair recorded all of the instrumentation for their debut album, Charm School. Shortly thereafter, with Margaret Miller and Bonnie Karin providing background vocals and credited as members of the band, the album was recorded and released on Champagne School Records. Later, Bonnie and Margaret left the band, and eventually full-time bassist Christian Owens and full-time drummer Jack Delamitraux became the permanent third and fourth band members. In the summer of 2006, Bishop Allen announced that Christian Owens would be leaving to start her own band, Music Magic. In February, 2007, Dead Oceans, a new sister label to Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar, announced that it had signed Bishop Allen. An new album is expected to be released some time in 2007. Their song "Things Are What You Make Of Them" can be heard in the movie Saved!. Justin Rice also plays Alan Peoples, the lead singer of "The Bumblebees", in the movie Mutual Appreciation (Directed by Andrew Bujalski), in which he happens to play the song "Quarter To Three" from the Charm School LP. Christian Rudder also starred in an Andrew Bujalski film, 2002's Funny Ha Ha, and the 2007 indie film Let Them Chirp Awhile, written and directed by Jonathan Blitstein.
