Miles and Bill first met at their place of employment (this was a corporate mailroom in San Francisco, CA) in 1994 but it wasn't until January 1996 that they began recording together. Beulah's first release, A Small Cattle Drive In A Snow Storm EP (E6-012) was recorded as just a duo.

Miles and Bill recorded a song every month and a half for 16 months in the beginning, using only guitar and drums, and recording in their offices, living rooms, bathrooms and hallways onto a Maxell cassette. The resulting album, Handsome Western States (E6-014) was released at the end of 1997. Robert Schneider (Apples in Stereo) mastered it. Shortly after the release of this CD, they assembled a full band: Miles Kurosky (guitar & lead vocals), Steve LaFolette (bass & vocals), Pat Noel (keyboards & guitar), Steve St. Cin (drums) and Bill Swan (trumpet, guitar & vocals).

The boys took what little money they had to begin work on the next album. They bought a used Tascam reel to reel for $1500 and a $250 CAD E100 microphone. Drums, guitar and other "loud" instruments are recorded at the band's practice space which they share with two other bands. The space is also next to 10 other cubicle spaces, which house three bands of their own. If you listen closely you'll be surprised to find out what you thought was genius production is actually bleed from other bands practicing down the hall (please use your headphones). Strings are recorded at Anne Mellinger's house. Piano at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone studios. Some vocals are recorded at Steve St. Cin's house until his wife kicks the Beulahs out for being too loud or too annoying. The actual facts are never really established. So the Beulahs move to lobby of Pat Noel's workplace to record rest of vocals. Bill and Miles then drive 20 hours to Denver to mix with Robert Schneider (who also provided some backing vocals).

The English label Shifty Disco released a CD single in January 1999. It was for a new song Sunday Under Glass from their upcoming full-length album. The second Beulah album, When Your Heartstrings Break (E6-016), was released in April 1999 on SugarFree Records.

Bill Evans (keyboards) also joined the band in a live capacity after the release of the album.

Shifty Disco released two more CD singles from When your Heartstrings Break. One was for Score From Augusta which coincided with the band's tour of Britain in October 1999. The other single for Emma Blowgun's Last Standand was released in April 2000.

Drummer Steve St. Cin left the band after their exhaustive touring. He was replaced by Danny Sullivan (who has also been in Groovie Ghoulies, Pansy Division and Screaching Weasel).

They began work on their third album when Miles recorded four-track demos of the songs, while living in Japan for a couple months, and mailed a tape to each of his five bandmates. They developed the tunes as they heard them on four-tracks of their own, not comparing notes, and mailing them back to Miles. "It was interesting to hear what each person did without being influenced by one another," Miles said. "Bill might have heard it as a soul song and Pat might have heard it as a country song — and I might happen to like both parts, and use them both." This patchwork song assembly was smoothed over at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco in the summer of 2000. (Read Bill's Studio Diary here.)

Beulah's new album The Coast Is Never Clear was released September 2001 on Velocette Records. A single was released by Shifty Disco for the song Popular Mechanics for Lovers. Shortly after the release of the record, Bill Evans and Steve LaFolette left the band. Pat Abernathy (on keyboards) and Eli Crews (on bass guitar) filled their places.

The band's fourth album entitled Yoko was released September 2003 on Velocette Records. Yoko was recorded during a period of time in which three of the six band members got divorced, singer Miles Kurosky broke up with the girl he thought he would marry and the band considered breaking up. They rehearsed for seven months before heading into the studio, making certain they had an album they could not only record, but play. They wanted to record the songs live together in a room, rather than using their usual method of layering numerous overdubs.

On August 5th 2004 the band will play their final show at Battery Park in New York City. A documentary DVD about the band entitled "A Good Band Is Easy To Kill" is scheduled to be released later this year. Miles plans to release a solo record sometime in the future.

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