BY NICOLETSONG
 | | Smoosh members Chloe, left, and Asy. |
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The bedrooms of Smoosh band members Asy and Chloe don't really tell the whole story.
The sisters'walls feature a few mementos from their rock-star life, like dangling backstage passes from music festivals they've played, a Styrofoam plate signed by the band Longwave and a picture of the two girls dancing on stage with The Go! Team.
But there isn't much about other bands Smoosh has played with, like Pearl Jam, Sleater-Kinney and even indie rock stars Death Cab for Cutie.
Maybe the magazine articles featuring this two-girl, indie-pop band are hidden in the stacks of Spin, Elle Girl and Teen Vogue in 14-year-old Asy's room, but they aren't on display. Even the name Smoosh makes only a brief appearance on a handmade sign in Chloe's window and on the backstage passes.
Instead, the wall in drummer Chloe's room has a drawing she made of her favorite things (apples, pink candy, peace), two four-leaf clovers she found at a park recently and some paper flowers fans made for Smoosh.
The white walls in keyboardist and singer Asy's room are decorated with pink Christmas lights and a couple of posters. A large stuffed lion lords over the room.
 | | Asy, right, in her room, and sister Chloe, down the hallway in her room, each have their own ideas about filling their spaces. |
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"My friends' rooms are usually better than mine," said Chloe, 12.
But Asy (pronounced "Aussie," short for Asya) and Chloe's unusual
PHOTOS Smoosh members lives invoke envy even in adults. They wowed people in 2004 with the release of their first album, "She Like Electric," lauded for its accessible pop tunes and intelligent lyrics. They've have toured nationally and abroad, and are adored by those in the Seattle music scene.
But a peek into the sisters' bedrooms reveals two girls who live a home life that is not exactly glamorous.
'NORMAL' AT HOME
The girls roomed together until a couple of years ago, living in a cozy space with little sister Maia, now 9. They painted the room pink and added blue, purple and pink dots and swirls on the white door.
But then Asy made a bid for freedom in the rambunctious three-bedroom household. She moved in with her 2-year-old sister - the fourth girl in the family - who's hardly ever there since she sleeps in Mom and Dad's room. Asy explained: "I'm really neat, and Chloe's really messy. I wanted to have a clean room."
Chloe, who still rooms with Maia, bemoaned the fact that she may never have her own room now that Asy claimed the last available space.
"She always gets everything," Chloe said. Apparently, that includes the room and its closet, her own cell phone and a stereo Asy found in the basement.
To add more insult, "Asy got a mini iPod," Chloe said. "I had to get a Shuffle."
As the band Smoosh, they are on tour regularly. Tours once were limited to school breaks, but bands want them for more than a few days at a time, said mom Maria, so the girls stockpile homework to take with them on the road.
A FAMILY AFFAIR
At home, where life seems utterly teenage and normal, the energetic girls goof off together with their sisters and friends. They both like to longboard, though they say 9-year-old Maia is the best skateboarder.
The girls' framed artwork hangs on the home's walls, and everyone pitched in recently on an abstract background for the next album's cover art, though it didn't make it on, said mom Maria. Maia did the artwork for the last cover and took the photo for the new album, "free to stay." The family also did the background artwork for the band's Web site, www.smoosh.com.
With shared rooms, privacy doesn't come easily in their household. But Asy occasionally closes the door to hers, sometimes to do homework on the floor on a pink and purple flowered area rug.
While she doesn't typically write down lyrics, she "sometimes writes them to make them more like a poem," she said. "I write them in here."
Chloe spends less time in her bedroom. Neither girl has a television or a computer in her room, so Chloe says she goes outside - and she prefers to be with people. "I never want to be alone," she said.