Doing a full write-up on each band would be way too time-consuming, so I'll just briefly describe them
Rah Rah - pop, alt-country, lovers of Broken Social Scene
Polymaths - pop made by English majors and Faculty Of Education students who are English majors
Fattony And The Shitheads - old-school punk, the sort of band where the lead singer is so hardcore he quit drinking when he was nine
Eroark - jammy pop, sound different at every show (I've gotten vibes of Gang Of Four, Rush, and a Dave-Matthews-free Dave Matthews Band) which is frustrating
Geronimo - two former members of defunct Jade Tree act
Despistado playing loud, punk-inflected pop-rock
The Hot Blood Bombers - greasy, sweaty garage rock with all the amp settings cranked to ten (I'm serious, the bassist apologised for it once)
def3 - rapper of Chilean descent who obviously likes Atmosphere and Classified, plays with a full Chilean music ensemble and a DJ
Tinsel Trees - pretty, slow acoustic tunes
Go Jeff! - shouty, hyper music reminiscent of early emocore except with a lot more bounciness and major keys and a girl vocalist/bassist
Sylvie - glitchy, sophisticated and often transcendental space-rock with mathy and poppy elements, also with a girl vocalist/bassist, also the guitarist was Despistado's bassist
Goldenmile - quirky, light new-wave-ish pop made by a drum/guitar/bass trio and is therefore more fun than most music which would be lumped into the same category.
Generals And Majors - spacey, po-faced new-wave-ish pop that is quite good but marred by delusions of grandeur
Fight The Monster - mostly folk-punk, produced by stern communists and distributed largely for free via their website, though they are apparently in the middle of recording a metal album which I am thinking will turn out to sound ill-conceived
Daniel - weird experimental lo-fi electronic music
The Sinsters - rockabilly of the classic school where the drummer only has a kick and a cymbal and a snare and he stands up to play them and the guitarist has a flat-top and a semi-hollowbody guitar and the bassist plays a standup bass
Bastard Sons Of A Rock'n'Roll Devil - you can probably imagine what these guys play and that leather jackets are involved
The Cathartic Lupins - goofy folkish stuff
with two MyspacesPower Box Social - four dudes who are a year younger than me playing stoner rock and who I would like to record because their current producer sounds kind of like a disciple of Bob Rock
National Frost - local dream-pop ensemble that makes surprisingly accomplished music
Little Miss Higgins - bluesy roots-rock, scored a local stage adapation of Molière's
George DandinA Knight To Remember - describe themselves as "folk rock" which is fairly accurate
Bands I'm in:Health Care. We don't have any songs up yet but the couple practices we've had are fucking nuts. We were founded by a film artist who has some crazy artistic intentions for the band and also figured out a way to use a television as a vocoder and wishes to utilise this in a cover of "T.V. Eye." Our songs so far include a menacing dance-ish number which involves the chant "We want a pitcher, not a belly-itcher" being growled over a disco bassline, a song I wrote in 7/4 time, a song which started from a carnival-like keyboard line that I put a Shellac-style guitar riff over top of and the bassist howls unhinged lyrics about the circus over and a song in a major key which is rapped over. I can't wait to actually write and perform a full set of this stuff.
Fireflower is the more serious project of the dude from The Cathartic Lupins who is also my bass player (see below). I was recently recruited as the drummer. We've practiced once, but Johnny's been writing stuff for it for a while so I'm basically just listening to what he wants and trying to do it.
Muriel is a joke band that I have nevertheless written a song for. One of the local venues, The Exchange, has a series called the "New West Concert Series" in which up-and-coming local artists are given the chance to play in the smaller side of the venue, The Club, without having to pay for rental. The artists also get 100% of the door, plus $100 for playing. This is accomplished by means of a grant. While applying for the grant this year, the venue manager discovered to his dismay that he had to list the acts for
2009 in advance. Keep in mind this is a grant which is supposed to help up-and-coming artists and also that he books bands maybe six months in advance tops. He just made up a bunch of bands and sent them in, then sent my friend an email telling said friend that he was now the frontman of a band named "Muriel." Our first song is called "I'm Okay With Alaska" and I've written it on the banjo. It's actually quite fun.
These Estates is the name of the project I devote the bulk of my time to and act as the primary writer for. I'm not very good at describing it, but essentially I try to write music that I would listen to myself. We play what I'll lump under the broad umbrella of "pop" because we dabble quite a bit in everything - punk, post-hardcore (I'm serious), southern rock, folk and slowcore (though the song I think of as slowcore probably isn't since it gets quite loud at the end). When playing with These Estates live I tend to sweat a lot.
My other two projects, World's Largest Dinosaur (a solo electronic act) and The Danger Bros. (my garage-punk duo with my brother in which my name is Johnny Danger and his name is Big Li'l Danger), don't have Myspaces because they don't really have anything recorded.
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