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greennj
- Guitar
greennj
- Guitar
» genre:
Alternative >
Indie
» location:
Green Jersey
» label: unsigned
» latest album:
"Signal to Noise"
7 tracks
$10
7 tracks
$10
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Green
NEWS
News
--Green! Now with 100% more drums! Green has laid down the recordings that will be the basis for their 3rd CD. Samples will be forthcoming.
--Evan and Matt are colaborating on a Split CD with music from their solo projects. Matt's solo project can be found at http://www.soundclick.com/mattio. Evan is also testing the waters with a new Jazz/Blues project called "Three Times a Lady" at Wesleyan University.
--JULY 18, 2004!!!! Whole bunch of new cool stuff added! We're back! Back in paisley and pastels, except for mattio, who would be wearing all black if it weren't so dirty and stained!
--Demos added. Quality is poor, so skip 'em if you want a feel for our sound, but for fans (there must be one or two of you out there) it gives you a peek at what we're working on.
--Chris has befriended The Wrens (www.wrens.com) and they have invited us to play with them sometime this winter. We'll let y'alls know...
--Art and Other Colors is ready for distrobution. email esimkobednar@wesleyan.edu for a copy.
--December saw much work on Green's second wave of songs. In addition to Matt and Evan's further explorations into songwriting, bassist Chris Norton has taken to guitar to author several new tracks for green, adding a very distinctive voice to the band's already unique tone.
--The band's homepage, at http://mmontesano.web.wesleyan.edu/green has been updated, polished, and made to smell minty fresh.
--Green! Now with 100% more drums! Green has laid down the recordings that will be the basis for their 3rd CD. Samples will be forthcoming.
--Evan and Matt are colaborating on a Split CD with music from their solo projects. Matt's solo project can be found at http://www.soundclick.com/mattio. Evan is also testing the waters with a new Jazz/Blues project called "Three Times a Lady" at Wesleyan University.
--JULY 18, 2004!!!! Whole bunch of new cool stuff added! We're back! Back in paisley and pastels, except for mattio, who would be wearing all black if it weren't so dirty and stained!
--Demos added. Quality is poor, so skip 'em if you want a feel for our sound, but for fans (there must be one or two of you out there) it gives you a peek at what we're working on.
--Chris has befriended The Wrens (www.wrens.com) and they have invited us to play with them sometime this winter. We'll let y'alls know...
--Art and Other Colors is ready for distrobution. email esimkobednar@wesleyan.edu for a copy.
--December saw much work on Green's second wave of songs. In addition to Matt and Evan's further explorations into songwriting, bassist Chris Norton has taken to guitar to author several new tracks for green, adding a very distinctive voice to the band's already unique tone.
--The band's homepage, at http://mmontesano.web.wesleyan.edu/green has been updated, polished, and made to smell minty fresh.
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BREAKING NEWS
NEW WEBSITE courtesy of our record label, Frictionless Records. Booyah, mufuh.
We are Green, three thoughtfully unmotivated kids, exiled from Northern New Jersey, to various locales of academia (read: we are at different colleges right now). Our music is a soundtrack to sitting around and thinking about things, and being from North Jersey.
---our latest EP, Signal to Noise, is out, but not online. Contact us for a copy.
NEW WEBSITE courtesy of our record label, Frictionless Records. Booyah, mufuh.
We are Green, three thoughtfully unmotivated kids, exiled from Northern New Jersey, to various locales of academia (read: we are at different colleges right now). Our music is a soundtrack to sitting around and thinking about things, and being from North Jersey.
---our latest EP, Signal to Noise, is out, but not online. Contact us for a copy.
Why this name?
We just liked the name.
Do you play live?
We're always looking for places to play, but it's pretty hard to get together; and we don't have a scene.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Matt: Egalitarian music accessability? Not quite--computers and internet access is a privilege. Musicians should be compensated but music should be free.
Evan: Well, matt, I think that, at the very least, it puts the means of production into the hands of the everyday musician. I mean, come on, we've been DIY since we started, and mp3 is a very important part of that. It allows little guys like us to compete, however feebly at first, with the corporate music giants.
Chris: Music should not be free, but the cost should be negligible. The internet is basically what makes people able to hear our music, and the music of every like-minded individual besides us. We don't have to worry anymore about pressing an album or making a tape; we barely even need to burn CDs anymore. It's a huge leveling of the playing field, but at the same time there's just so much available now that it's not necessarily any better than when it wasn't. With such an massive pool of talent and lack thereof, it's nearly impossible to find the stuff that's worth it.
Evan: Well, matt, I think that, at the very least, it puts the means of production into the hands of the everyday musician. I mean, come on, we've been DIY since we started, and mp3 is a very important part of that. It allows little guys like us to compete, however feebly at first, with the corporate music giants.
Chris: Music should not be free, but the cost should be negligible. The internet is basically what makes people able to hear our music, and the music of every like-minded individual besides us. We don't have to worry anymore about pressing an album or making a tape; we barely even need to burn CDs anymore. It's a huge leveling of the playing field, but at the same time there's just so much available now that it's not necessarily any better than when it wasn't. With such an massive pool of talent and lack thereof, it's nearly impossible to find the stuff that's worth it.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Matt: Depends on the terms of the deal, right? Depends on the policies of the label, and the company that owns the label. Depends on what they wanted from us.
Evan: Moby once said something about how, if all of the good bands stayed indie, mainstream would always suck. Now, that's not to say we're a good band, but... :) If we still had creative rights over our art (if it was still our art and we could do with it what we pleased) then yeah, i'd say so. Barring that, no way. no way in hell.
Chris: I'll have to break with these guys and say no. Mainstream success is not a goal for me, and not necessarily even desirable. I don't care about sheer numbers of people; just the knowledge that people hear us, and appreciate what we're doing, because it means something to them.
Matt, in response: hey, all i was saying is that if somebody paid me to do whatever i wanted, musically, i'd consider it.
Evan: Right now, we're involved in a hip co-op in New Jersey called Frictionless Records. Check out the other projects under the Frictionless guise:
Nietzsche and the Band of Love
Evan: Moby once said something about how, if all of the good bands stayed indie, mainstream would always suck. Now, that's not to say we're a good band, but... :) If we still had creative rights over our art (if it was still our art and we could do with it what we pleased) then yeah, i'd say so. Barring that, no way. no way in hell.
Chris: I'll have to break with these guys and say no. Mainstream success is not a goal for me, and not necessarily even desirable. I don't care about sheer numbers of people; just the knowledge that people hear us, and appreciate what we're doing, because it means something to them.
Matt, in response: hey, all i was saying is that if somebody paid me to do whatever i wanted, musically, i'd consider it.
Evan: Right now, we're involved in a hip co-op in New Jersey called Frictionless Records. Check out the other projects under the Frictionless guise:
Nietzsche and the Band of Love
Band History:
More history coming soon; for now, visit http://mmontesano.web.wesleyan.edu/green
Your influences?
A lot of music influences us, but doesn't come through in the way we sound. Influences include Pavement, The Pixies, Coldplay, Broken Social Scene, The Wrens, The Clash, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, R.E.M., Radiohead, Crosby Stills and Nash, Eric Clapton, Mission of Burma...
Favorite spot?
The Barn--our practice space.
Equipment used:
Modified Fender Stratocasters, Telecasters, Cyclones; Boss Blues Drivers are our favorite distortions; Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Ampeg B2 bass amp, Fender Blues Junior, vintage Telefunken tubes when we can find 'em, an Ibanez replica of a Gibson ES-335, Epiphone acoustics....whatever we can get our hands on that sounds pretty...
Anything else...?
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