Peppermint Bone is an homage to one of my favorite groups, the Candy Butchers. Their screwy hardcore style was always enough to put me off-kilter and see things from a different perspective. At least that's what it felt like with their beats howling throughout my house!
I gave our project the name long ago, before there even was a "we" in the project, and thought it sounded just "off" enough to be right.

Peppermint Bone hasn't performed live. Yet.

The internet has made music, usually in the form of mp3s (for portability), more readily accessible to the people that might not otherwise get a chance to experience the wide variety of really good stuff out there. I feel that most major record companies would be well-advised to get with the times and adapt their methods to the digital age. Sure, CDs are nice, but today, it's pretty easy to download CD-quality tracks and burn them yourself. iTunes and sites like that are doing it right, making the music affordable, and giving the people a true voice to what they actually enjoy.
If the powers-that-be in the music industry ever wake up and realize the power that the internet and the music files flinging all over the globe actually represent, then money will be made all around, and artists will finally get to do what they have wanted to do from the start: express themselves to the world.

Well, we like to think that in a sense, we already have. However, Itachi Records doesn't really exist, except in our heads, and is intended, if nothing else, to introduce a small subconscious note of validity to our music, in a world where simply being signed to a label means you're someone. Otherwise, the answer is no. Signing with an actual, established record label would be the antithesis to our goal. Making money off the music isn't what I got into this for. Personally, I would be happy enough to hear one of our tracks being played in someone's car, or played over the radio on some freeform show. If we hear it somewhere other than our studio, then I know our shout was heard and acknowledged. Isn't that what this whole industry is really all about? If people actually like what they hear, well then that's a bonus!

I would have to say our influences have a very broad range of styles, from the pop culture level, like Boy George and Wham, to the heavier riffs of Guns N Roses, right up through the electronic music artist, such as Depeche Mode. There is no true outstanding influence in what we do. Basically, if we like it, we like it, no matter the style. The things we like from all these different points on the musical compass eventually find their way into our stuff, we're just not sure exactly how that works.

My favorite place is the Coachella Valley in Southern California. My partner in crime would say it's the horse track. That dude is a betting fool.

Peppermint Bone doesn't pretend to be something it's not. For example, it's not some nouveau poser group looking to make it rich in the industry by putting together some bullshit garbage and marketing it off as art. What it IS, however, is a couple of guys who enjoy the art of music, sharing their personal flavor with the planet. Nothing more, nothing less. If someone doesn't like our stuff, that's fine. Everyone's tastes differ. If someone DOES like it, though, then I know I feel happy to know that I brightened someone's day, and just maybe gave them a few ideas of their own.