Bishop Allen is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The band's core members are Justin Rice and Christian Rudder, who are supported both on stage and in the studio by a rotating cast of musical collaborators. The band was formed in 2003 and grew out of Rice and Rudder's long-standing friendship; it takes its name from Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the two lived together after college. Bishop Allen has released two albums and 12 EPs; their second album, The Broken String, was released in July 2007. History Charm School Charm School was Bishop Allen's first record. Recorded in fits and starts over two years, it grew song-by-song as Rice and Rudder wrote and played in their spare time. They recorded all the instruments on the album's 13 songs themselves, using drum loops to hide the fact that neither is a drummer, and almost everything on the recor