

The Mae Shi
Los Angeles' noise rock outfit the Mae Shi features Ezra Buchla, Brad Breeck, and Tim and Jeff Byron. The bandmembers were longtime friends before starting the Mae Shi, with Buchla and Jeff Byron's friendship dating back to their high school days. With influences spanning no wave and classical legends like the Ex and Erik Satie, the band aimed to bring a wide array of sounds and approaches to its music. After playing their first gigs in early 2003, the Mae Shi issued their debut EP that summer, which they gave to people in exchange for mi...[more]
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The Mae Shi play experimental, jagged, short songs in the spirit of experimental jagged punk. Sometimes sounds shift without warning, sometimes everybody is shouting, and sometimes it's a full-on rock bent. The four band members recorded and mixed "Terrorbird" on four different computers. The result is eleven songs about the Old and New Testament, ten songs about the Terror Bird (a prehistoric, flightless, flesh-eating bird found in parts of South America), three songs about vampires, two songs about werewo [ read more ]
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LA's Mae Shi offer ten home recorded tracks that plumb the depths of their musical taste, as influenced by their current infatuation with Melt Banana, Deerhoof, and UK grime, as by their pimply adolescent love of Def Leppard, Nine Inch Nails, Dante's Inferno, and worship music. Anything goes here: drum machines, cut and paste choruses, hand claps, recycled riffs, hoots, hollers, and lyrics pulled from neuroscience textbooks and Plato's "Republic".
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LA's Mae Shi offer ten home recorded tracks that plumb the depths of their musical taste, as influenced by their current infatuation with Melt Banana, Deerhoof, and UK grime, as by their pimply adolescent love of Def Leppard, Nine Inch Nails, Dante's Inferno, and worship music. Anything goes here: drum machines, cut and paste choruses, hand claps, recycled riffs, hoots, hollers, and lyrics pulled from neuroscience textbooks and Plato's "Republic".
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The four band members recorded and mixed Terrorbird on four different computers. The result consists of eleven songs about the Old and New Testament, ten songs about the Terror Bird (a prehistoric, flightless, flesh eating bird found in parts of South America), three songs about vampires, two songs about werewolves, two songs about ergot poisoning in the Middle Ages, one song about shark evolution, one song about California, and one song about dolphins in the military.
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The LA spaz-pop fivesome stand at the odd intersection of good ol' DIY ethics and raw hyperactive ambition. "Lock The Skull" contains over 30 music videos, a full-length documentary of the band's first US tour, and tons of special features. This has everything your average tour documentary has - wide open roads, empty bars, dishonest promoters, and drunken hi-jinks - but with the added bonus of animated flying monsters, firework accidents, and a laugh track.
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