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What's your address, telephone number and social security number? We do thorough background checks on everyone prior to ringing their doorbells.
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By the way, how is that game? It's European only and won't play on our console (we bought it, not knowing that information). I'm sure it's a quality game. We're really big into dirt bike racing. Or ATV racing. Or whatever kind of racing takes place in SBK 09.
You don't need to know the lyrics to "Simple Simone." -
We have a lot of friends in the Lawrence and Kansas City area who play in some killller bands. Here's an incomplete list of some bands we have direct ties to:
Our roommates play in Cowboy Indian Bear: http://www.myspace.com/cowboyindianbear
Alex played guitar for a show with Life In Jersey: http://www.myspace.com/lifeinjersey
Austin filled in on drums for The ACBs: http://www.myspace.com/theacbs
We have shows coming up with Hidden Pictures: http://www.myspace.com/hiddenpictures
And Hawley Shoffner:
http://www.myspace.com/hawleyshoffner
Our friend Andrew Morgan:
http://www.myspace.com/morganandrew
We have good friends in Kansas City bands We Are Voices (http://www.myspace.com/wearevoices), O, Giant Man (http://www.myspace.com/ogiantmant), The Cherry Tree Parade (http://www.myspace.com/leftonnorthwood), Antennas Up (http://www.myspace.com/antennasup)and The Future Kings (http://www.myspace.com/futurekingsrock)
We've rocked Lawrence with From Quiet Arms (http://www.myspace.com/fromquietarms), Left On Northwood (http://www.myspace.com/leftonnorthwood) and Newmatica (http://www.myspace.com/newmatica) a time or two.
Some fellow Fort Scott natives play in Panda Circus: http://www.myspace.com/pandacircus
We also enjoy playing with Spoon (http://www.myspace.com/spoon) and Muse (http://www.myspace.com/muse) -
The world would have ended in 2002.
Folks, if you haven't heard Nine Inch Nails' most recent record, 2008's "The Slip," you can download it for free here:
http://theslip.nin.com/
We have made no secret of our unabashed fan of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is a truly revolutionary artist, and over the past few years he has reinvented himself further as a pioneer of new multimedia and technology. Everything from Reznor's album production (including his record's artwork concepts and design) to his live shows and online interaction with fans has been state of the art.
All of this has culminated in his recent multimedia experiment which can be read about and experienced here:
http://www.nin.com/?id=95355
Austin had the opportunity to catch Nine Inch Nails on what they’ve said was their last tour through Kansas City at Starlight Theater. He shot his own footage of the concert from the 20th row, stage center.
If you've ever written off Nine Inch Nails as a band you "used to listen to in middle school," we ask that you take a second look at one of the most innovative artists working in music today. www.nin.com
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Yeah, we probably just need to try harder...
"The current climate of music sales" is interesting. We‘re not in a sales drought necessarily, but what frightens the industry is how rapidly the way in which music is distributed and purchased continues to change. The major labels, indie labels and artists themselves are all stumbling around in the dark trying to figure out what the most effective (and profitable) means of releasing music will be in the future. No one seems to have a good answer.
We’re huge fans of the full-length record. However, sales numbers show that fewer people are interested in purchasing full-length records and are instead opting for singles and EPs. And forgot about the CD -- it’s a dying format. (Alex from the band seems to be in the minority of people who doesn’t own an Mp3 player and still rocks his CD player). Meanwhile, digital sales and downloads have skyrocketed over the past two years.
One of The Noise FM’s current goals is to figure out the best way for us to release music. Should we keep producing full-length records? Focus on EPs that we can release more frequently? Abandon CDs all together and focus on digital releases? We don’t know. I imagine our next release will be available on a limited number of CDs as well as all of the usual online outlets.
Regardless, we’ll keep writing and recording music whether anyone is buying it or not. -
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Mr. Budget already knows this. And he's offended that you underestimated his knowledge of computations involving laser driven inertial fusion energy based in the natural adiabatic self-similarity compression and expansion hydrodynamics of volume ignition.
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Good question! Not that all of the other questions we've been asked haven't been great, but this inquiry is maybe a bit more relevant as we approach the release of our next EP (tentatively titled “I’m With Coco”). You’ll hear it in late spring 2010.
For anyone who was around when we began in 2005, you’ll remember that we tended to play a slightly more aggressive brand of rock while still keeping the music grounded in a groove and beat-driven foundation. It’s true that many of the tunes on our debut, “Night of the Sentinels,” waded into what some might call “prog rock” territory.
Our 2008 full-length, “Dream of the Attack,” exemplifies a refining and focusing of our sound into more cohesive songs. Call it maturing.
It’s sounding like our next release (tentatively titled “Going Rogue”) will continue the natural evolution of the band’s sound. The tunes definitely have that Noise FM beat, but they’re a step in a new direction for us. I don’t hear much of the “prog rock” in these songs that colored our earlier records.
With that said, we also have a batch of new material that won’t be on the upcoming EP (tentatively titled “Death Magnetic”). You’ll see these tunes released in one form or another over the coming year and performed at live shows. These are songs that are too aggressive, too long and too “prog rock” to make the cut for our new record. You’ll get a chance to hear them though, so prep yourself to be rocked in the face. -
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Man, that "Simple Simone" song is the jammmm.
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We watched Fantastic Planet last week.
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"Why You Shouldn't Date A Musician"
By Damian Kulash of OK GO
06/05
Ladies, there are a million well-known reasons why you shouldn't date a musician. We're self-obsessed, we're flaky, we're hot-tempered, we're unreliable, and we're always broke, so you'll have to pay for everything. We're imperious, impenetrable, and impractical, and, let's face it ? we ain't usually the cleanest of folk. Nonetheless, you keep falling for us. The only reason I can surmise is this: our faults are of exactly the type that get mistaken for virtues in the confusing tumult of love. Our brand of crazy is precisely the kind that can appear sexy under the weird lights of romance.
Let's say you meet a cute guy, for instance. He's a little cocky, but you say you like some confidence in a man. He's a bit scatterbrained, but you think of it as creative. He's manic, but you call it passion. Perhaps he could shampoo a little more often; you say you like'em on the wild side. These charitable evaluations are the currency of love ? they're how you're supposed to feel when you're falling for someone ? but ladies, I'm warning you: you've got to stay away from the musicians.
The real reason we're unlovable has nothing to do with our big mouths or big egos. In fact, it's not a matter of emotional compatibility at all; it's a simple matter of practicality. We want precisely what you do not. You want a companion; we want to take our guitars and disappear into the gaping maw of the country. You want someone to eat meals with, someone to tell jokes to, someone to kiss. We want to be in a van somewhere between Minneapolis and Seattle, hopped up on Red Bull at four in the morning and speeding like hell to make it to the club by tomorrow afternoon. We run on endless newness, endless mania, and endless travel.
But wait, you say. The particular musician you are currently butterfly-stomached about doesn't go on tour; he's in high school, and his band has never played anything but house parties. He likes languid Sunday afternoons together even more than you do, and he's the one who's always perched and waiting at your locker. Rock n' roll is just something he does for fun. Ladies, don't be fooled! A shark in a cage is still a shark! The young Jeckyl of your fancy may not know the Hyde inside him, but it's there nonetheless.
The longer you spend with a musician, the more you will come to know the anxious discontentment at his core. If you are lucky, he will have great success, be swept off into the tempest of the music industry, and he will never bother you again. In most cases, though, you will find your heart tied to someone who is terminally unsatisfied ? someone who cannot ever get what he wants from the world. He will toil endlessly and fruitlessly at song after song, idea after idea, show after show. The only thing that could possibly fulfill him is the same success that would ruin your relationship. And even then, he would want more. Like I said, he wants exactly what you do not.
On top of it all, you're going to have lie to him, and maybe even to yourself. You'll have to tell him his band is good. You and I both know it's not true. Do you really want a boyfriend you have to lie to?
Listen, I know that creative people are sexy, and I know it's easy to fall for people with talent. But ladies, there are plenty of talented writers and engineers and architects out there. I'm telling you, for your own good: stay away from the musicians. -
Wait, is Owl City just one dude? Is that his legal name? I gotta Google this.
Alright. Here. Watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud07NoWAG2E
We often do the same dance Mr. City does at the 3:03 mark. Watch out! -
The Noise FM has no meaning. We started as The Noise and tacked on the "FM" after we realized how many other bands were called The Noise. And 'yes' to both of your other questions.
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To answer your questions in as few words as possible, "universal human rights" is an absurdly broad and vague notion that is impossible to achieve, though ethical and admirable in principle, and cannot and should not be defined by any individual. Female Genital Mutilation.
We'll now use the rest of this response space to post a few questions we've been asked that nearly left us speechless:
"Who the hell is The Noise FM?"
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"Do you guys like Muse? Like are you attracted to them?"
-yes and yes
"Which one is the queer one."
-Nick Jonas
"If we kill you, do you come back three times stronger?"
-All three of us? That would make for 9x stronger total. And we'd be pissed, so factor that in.
"How many women will Tiger woods finally end up with?"
-We don't know, but we're sure he'll get it ironed out! Ba dum!
"why are you so attractive? Is it your southern charm?"
-yes!
"I double dog dare you to do bailamos."
-we do it every night! -
Enrique Iglesias "Bailamos"
Chad Kroeger "Hero"
Tal Bachman "She's So High"
Goo Goo Dolls "Black Balloon"
Jimmy Ray "Are You Jimmy Ray"
Nine Inch Nails "The Perfect Drug"
We'd do more covers, but yes, we're mostly just too lazy to learn them. -
Thanks for asking! For the benefit of the uninitiated, let us in The Noise FM begin with a brief recapitulation of the tenets of biopower as established by the 20th century French philosopher and ‘deconstructionist’ Michel Foucault. Biopower refers to the means by which a capitalist state exerts its total control over people in the effort to guide said population to an ideal life. The means of state control are through statistical and probability analysis – i.e. governments analyze the likely response of the population to their actions and determine the best means of how to control a population’s general reaction.
(For the science-fiction aficionados out there, you might make a general comparison to the fictional character Hari Seldon’s mathematical theory of psychohistory in Isaac Asimov’s “The Foundation Trilogy.” Psychohistory dealt in equal parts mathematics, statistics and sociology when calculating the behavior of a mass of people over extended periods of time. (We highly recommend “The Foundation Trilogy” as an intelligent sci-fi read, although Asimov’s cerebral and technical writing tends to border on the emotionally devoid. But we digress…))
In theory, Foucault’s basic conception of biopower as a means to steer mass population behavior toward an ideal society is a proposition The Noise FM whole-heartedly agrees with. To be somewhat topical, socialized health care, for example, can be viewed as an example of a state government acting on behalf of its citizens in attempt to make living conditions more ideal; a government-sponsored health care plan might fall within Foucault’s idea of biopower.
The controversial side of Foucault’s idea of biopower (this being the side The Noise FM takes issue with), however, mustn’t be ignored. Foucault might use biopower to justify genocide, racism, and classism (among other –isms) if such behavior is perceived as being good for society as a whole and essential for a population’s long-term well-being.
Is biopower inevitable? I think the question misses the point. We would argue that nearly every government in every sovereign state across the globe acts within the broadest definition of Foucault’s biopower. What government (democratic or fascist) doesn’t believe it’s acting on behalf of its citizens’ best interests (we don’t mean to sound either naïve or cynical in asking)? Biopower is not only inevitable, but we would argue it’s an inherent trait in any form of government control. Do we have an ethical and intellectual obligation to reject each instance? Of course not, especially as a consensus. What you might view as an appalling intrusion of government into your private life, The Noise FM might see as an honorable attempt by the government to protect its citizens (and vice versa). -
Michele (!), we would argue that "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol is the single greatest accomplishment in pop music this decade. I'm not sure how anyone could argue otherwise.
For guitar tabs, please head here:
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/s/snow_patrol/chasing_cars_tab.htm
For lyrics, here:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/snowpatrol/chasingcars.html -
Michelle Obama has gone above and beyond the expectations we had for her as a first lady. The Noise FM could not be happier with her performance and we look forward to seeing what else she can do to sass up the White House during the remainder of her term.
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It's been a toss-up between L.A., New York and Chicago, so we've gone with the city closest to the point of equidistance between the three. Lawrence has been good for our chi.
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