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redboymc
- vocals, guitar, drums (sometim
razswrltori
- violin
redboymc
- vocals, guitar, drums (sometim
razswrltori
- violin
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Maria Carter
» label: unsigned
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redboy (US)
NEWS
Peace is not a set of circumstances that you find yourself in, like you're some gaping bystander on the scene of the accident of life.
Peace is not a martyr. Peace drives past the broken neighborhoods, past furious, desperate people with it's radio blaring, closing its eyes until it rounds the corner because it cannot bear the sound, it cannot bear the sight, of being forgotten, of being ignored, of being prayed for but not worked for, of being asked for but not given, of being left in the basement a useless memory while the American family eats dinner in the living room, discussing foreign policy like it's a f***ing football game.
Peace is a sculpture, it is a work of art built by many hands and many lives, designed by love and inspired by pain. It is wood and glass and blood and clay and paint, painted over all our differences with the same transparent hue so that we are every color and every creed and every faith, with the same beautiful crystal finish.
Faith alone is a shadow, ephemeral, a few firing synapses in an overworked, frightened mind. you notice it when a guy on the street asks you quietly for a couple of bucks. You say no and walk away, but it's that brief moment as you're leaving one of the few social situations in which you still feel uncomfortable when you allow yourself to wonder if you considered your response, or if it was just impulse. . . But you just keep walking, because inertia is a powerful force. It holds planets in orbit, last names in the Oval Office, bloody uniforms in the desert and misguided priorities at the top of all our lists. Conviction is the outline - action fills it in. Conviction is the outline - action fills it in.
But when there is no action - Audre Lorde said we can sit in our corners, mute as bottles and still we will be no less afraid. But we are afraid, and we do not say these words, we do not talk about war and poverty and pain and injustice in polite conversation because we are too passionate, our words are too strong, our ideas are too radical and someone might disagree with us, someone might have voted differently, someone might start feeling a little too guilty, someone might lose their goddamn appetite. So you close off, you shut down, you shut up, you change the subject and then you wake up one morning and realize that you have lost your soul. You wonder where all your conviction has gone. You lift up your mattress, looking for your faith, next to the playboys and scraps of bad poetry and fliers for marches you never marched in and causes you almost believed in and risks you pretended you intended on taking. But it's gone.
It's like that. It leaves you when you don't stand up. Our names were called, but we didn't hear. So the word comes again. Peace.
Peace is not a martyr. Peace drives past the broken neighborhoods, past furious, desperate people with it's radio blaring, closing its eyes until it rounds the corner because it cannot bear the sound, it cannot bear the sight, of being forgotten, of being ignored, of being prayed for but not worked for, of being asked for but not given, of being left in the basement a useless memory while the American family eats dinner in the living room, discussing foreign policy like it's a f***ing football game.
Peace is a sculpture, it is a work of art built by many hands and many lives, designed by love and inspired by pain. It is wood and glass and blood and clay and paint, painted over all our differences with the same transparent hue so that we are every color and every creed and every faith, with the same beautiful crystal finish.
Faith alone is a shadow, ephemeral, a few firing synapses in an overworked, frightened mind. you notice it when a guy on the street asks you quietly for a couple of bucks. You say no and walk away, but it's that brief moment as you're leaving one of the few social situations in which you still feel uncomfortable when you allow yourself to wonder if you considered your response, or if it was just impulse. . . But you just keep walking, because inertia is a powerful force. It holds planets in orbit, last names in the Oval Office, bloody uniforms in the desert and misguided priorities at the top of all our lists. Conviction is the outline - action fills it in. Conviction is the outline - action fills it in.
But when there is no action - Audre Lorde said we can sit in our corners, mute as bottles and still we will be no less afraid. But we are afraid, and we do not say these words, we do not talk about war and poverty and pain and injustice in polite conversation because we are too passionate, our words are too strong, our ideas are too radical and someone might disagree with us, someone might have voted differently, someone might start feeling a little too guilty, someone might lose their goddamn appetite. So you close off, you shut down, you shut up, you change the subject and then you wake up one morning and realize that you have lost your soul. You wonder where all your conviction has gone. You lift up your mattress, looking for your faith, next to the playboys and scraps of bad poetry and fliers for marches you never marched in and causes you almost believed in and risks you pretended you intended on taking. But it's gone.
It's like that. It leaves you when you don't stand up. Our names were called, but we didn't hear. So the word comes again. Peace.
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indie folk revolution, from Gainesville, FL.
redboy is an assortment of like-minded musicians that come together in various combinations to rock out. sometimes it's just M.C. by herself, sometimes it's everyone making beautiful noise together.
redboy is a created category, a claimed identity where no positive identity was readily provided. if you are reading this, you might be a redboy too. red because we're guilty, and we can't conceal it. boy because we're not, and we won't become it. guilty of not being boys, of living in a world designed for someone else's success. that's our scarlet letter. what's yours?
redboy is where you go when society begins to whisper in your ear. it will tell you that your unorthodox face cannot be hidden, they will pin the triangle through your sleeve and into your skin, they will tell you that conformity is freedom and freedom is your priviledge and not your right. you are an un-ideal. perhaps you are the antithesis of the ideal, since you are conscious that you do not belong in the traditional, socially intelligible boxes, and yet continue to exist in spite of the discord you encounter when your life is measured against the expectations of Others.
you have always had the freedom to reject the idea of categorization. in fact, you may have been doing it all along. redboy is a box with no sides, no top. only a bottom, a base of support, a loving step from which to leap. we create our own space, instead of allowing others to assign/identify our boundaries. we self-identify, while questioning the need for identification.
we say it because it is not said. we have faith.
redboy is an assortment of like-minded musicians that come together in various combinations to rock out. sometimes it's just M.C. by herself, sometimes it's everyone making beautiful noise together.
redboy is a created category, a claimed identity where no positive identity was readily provided. if you are reading this, you might be a redboy too. red because we're guilty, and we can't conceal it. boy because we're not, and we won't become it. guilty of not being boys, of living in a world designed for someone else's success. that's our scarlet letter. what's yours?
redboy is where you go when society begins to whisper in your ear. it will tell you that your unorthodox face cannot be hidden, they will pin the triangle through your sleeve and into your skin, they will tell you that conformity is freedom and freedom is your priviledge and not your right. you are an un-ideal. perhaps you are the antithesis of the ideal, since you are conscious that you do not belong in the traditional, socially intelligible boxes, and yet continue to exist in spite of the discord you encounter when your life is measured against the expectations of Others.
you have always had the freedom to reject the idea of categorization. in fact, you may have been doing it all along. redboy is a box with no sides, no top. only a bottom, a base of support, a loving step from which to leap. we create our own space, instead of allowing others to assign/identify our boundaries. we self-identify, while questioning the need for identification.
we say it because it is not said. we have faith.
Band History:
M.C. - vocals, guitars
Maria Carter has been writing songs since she was 10 years old.
"It's my passion," she said. "It just comes out like soul vomit or something."
That passion is the hallmark of Carter's music: meaningful lyrics, driving hooks and a sometimes soft, sometimes growly voice that is unfalteringly sincere.
Carter's acoustic pop-rock/grunge/folk style carries influences ranging from Alice in Chains to Sarah McLaughlin, including Garth Brooks, Amy Ray, Melissa Ferrick, the Foo Fighters, Fuel, and Ani DiFranco. Her guitar work is aggressive and her songwriting is wryly introspective, making for dynamic live performances.
After stints as the frontwoman of several bands, ranging in style from pop-punk to Metallica and grunge rock, Carter's now fronting Redboy, a Cold Play meets Melissa Ferrick creation. Combining the intense, technically perfect percussive complements of drummer Tobin Wagstaff, the artful back-up vocals and acoustic guitar of Kate's Love frontwoman Meredith McCall, and the excellent background work of bass player Denise Burnsed and violinist Anne Peters, Redboy takes Carter's music further than ever before.
At 21, Carter is trying to go the non-establishment route for musical success. She has produced 5 LPs and 4 EPs since she began independently recording and publishing her music six years ago, and her new album is a product of her persistent creative energy.
"It's all been done before," she says. "You just have to take what you know and make it personal. A catchy riff will never compensate for stupid lyrics that don't mean anything to the person who's singing them. You have to tell people the truth or you'll never get any respect."
Aside from music, Carter just finished her bachelor's in journalism and women's studies at the University of Florida. She grew up in the po-dunk North Florida town of Crawfordville with her parents and two younger sisters before she moved to Gainesville to go to college. She loves to windsurf, travel, play soccer and baseball, train for triathlons and then get the flu right before the race, read Tom Wolfe, and write.
Discography
Most Recent: The Red Wine Acoustic Sessions (2004 LP, M.C. acoustic); redboy 2005 EP (full band)
A.P. - violin, brilliant smiles
Anne Peters, originally from Iowa City, Iowa, started playing violin when she was 3 years old. She is classically trained under the Suzuki Method (no relation to the vehicle). She has traveled to England, Germany, and Austria touring with the Preucil School of Music Orchestra. Anne joined M.M.'s project, a band called Kate's Love, in January and was recently back-door drafted by the redboy defense department. She has traveled with M.C. and M.M. to Wesleyan College to open for the Vagina Monologues, to Georgia, for the Southern Womyn's Festival, and to Melbourne, FL, to the Florida Institute of Technology, for a National Coming Out Day show.
Maria Carter has been writing songs since she was 10 years old.
"It's my passion," she said. "It just comes out like soul vomit or something."
That passion is the hallmark of Carter's music: meaningful lyrics, driving hooks and a sometimes soft, sometimes growly voice that is unfalteringly sincere.
Carter's acoustic pop-rock/grunge/folk style carries influences ranging from Alice in Chains to Sarah McLaughlin, including Garth Brooks, Amy Ray, Melissa Ferrick, the Foo Fighters, Fuel, and Ani DiFranco. Her guitar work is aggressive and her songwriting is wryly introspective, making for dynamic live performances.
After stints as the frontwoman of several bands, ranging in style from pop-punk to Metallica and grunge rock, Carter's now fronting Redboy, a Cold Play meets Melissa Ferrick creation. Combining the intense, technically perfect percussive complements of drummer Tobin Wagstaff, the artful back-up vocals and acoustic guitar of Kate's Love frontwoman Meredith McCall, and the excellent background work of bass player Denise Burnsed and violinist Anne Peters, Redboy takes Carter's music further than ever before.
At 21, Carter is trying to go the non-establishment route for musical success. She has produced 5 LPs and 4 EPs since she began independently recording and publishing her music six years ago, and her new album is a product of her persistent creative energy.
"It's all been done before," she says. "You just have to take what you know and make it personal. A catchy riff will never compensate for stupid lyrics that don't mean anything to the person who's singing them. You have to tell people the truth or you'll never get any respect."
Aside from music, Carter just finished her bachelor's in journalism and women's studies at the University of Florida. She grew up in the po-dunk North Florida town of Crawfordville with her parents and two younger sisters before she moved to Gainesville to go to college. She loves to windsurf, travel, play soccer and baseball, train for triathlons and then get the flu right before the race, read Tom Wolfe, and write.
Discography
Most Recent: The Red Wine Acoustic Sessions (2004 LP, M.C. acoustic); redboy 2005 EP (full band)
A.P. - violin, brilliant smiles
Anne Peters, originally from Iowa City, Iowa, started playing violin when she was 3 years old. She is classically trained under the Suzuki Method (no relation to the vehicle). She has traveled to England, Germany, and Austria touring with the Preucil School of Music Orchestra. Anne joined M.M.'s project, a band called Kate's Love, in January and was recently back-door drafted by the redboy defense department. She has traveled with M.C. and M.M. to Wesleyan College to open for the Vagina Monologues, to Georgia, for the Southern Womyn's Festival, and to Melbourne, FL, to the Florida Institute of Technology, for a National Coming Out Day show.
Your influences?
redboy family tree: Layne Staley (dad), Amy Ray (mom), Melissa Ferrick (sister), Cold Play (brother), Ani DiFranco (great aunt)
Anything else...?
(M.C.) Maria Carter - vocals, guitar, drums
(M.M.) Meredith McCall - guitar, vocals, drums
(T.W.) Tobin Wagstaff - drums
(D.B.) Denise Burnsed - bass
(A.P.) Anne Peters - violin
(M.M.) Meredith McCall - guitar, vocals, drums
(T.W.) Tobin Wagstaff - drums
(D.B.) Denise Burnsed - bass
(A.P.) Anne Peters - violin