Encoder ....: lame
Grabber ....: EAC
Source .....: CDDA
Quality ....: VBRkbps/44.1kHz
Tracks .....: 09
Genre ......: Electronic Year .......: 2009
Rip Date ...: 19-06-2009
Label ......: Slanty Shanty Records
01. Hang Out / Hang Ten : 02:41
02. Why Didn't You Get A Haircut : 02:31
03. Introducing The Magic Eye : 02:53
04. The Adventures Of Brian Townsend : 02:12
05. Tour De Friends : 03:37
06. Big Foot : 03:13
07. Cardboard Room : 02:06
08. Almost! : 02:01
09. It's Gonna Be Awesome : 03:36
TOTAL TIME : 24:50 min
TOTAL SIZE : 33,6 MB
Math the Band is a boyfriend and girlfriend duo
that can be best described as
a hard and furious mixture of screeching 8-bit
sequenced keyboard lines,
driving Casio drums, melodic, yet throat-shedding
yelping, and a high and
human energy that can only be derived from the
childhood naivety that beckons
ôWang ChungÆsö mantra: ôEverybody have fun
tonight!ö
Math the Band started the day guitarist, vocalist,
and computer programmer
Kevin Steinhauser was kicked out of his local high
school pop-punk band.
Kevin, then a 16 year-old kid was just like most
other New England punkers,
was overly obsessed with ska music and video games,
which in turn influenced
him heavily when the itch to continue writing music
eventually consumed him.
The result was a high school career composing
roughly 12 songs a week,
releasing five full-length, DIY CD-R releases
containing songs about such
overt topics as shark attacks and how much the
Postal Service sucks.
Flash-forward to 2007 when Math the Band released
his first
honest-to-goodness pressed and shrink-wrapped
self-release: ôMath the Band
Banned the Math.ö Word of mouth was quickly set
off a whirlwind of positive
press and support from a new fan base leading to
Kevin SteinhauserÆs ôone
man, a mic, and a computerö project quickly
evolving into a full band with
the addition of his girlfriend Justine Mainville on
analog synths, and a
rotating cast of his college aged buddies playing
stand-up drums, back-up
synths, handing out balloons, painting faces, and
serving freshly baked
cupcakes (none of that store bought shit!)
Math the Band prides themselves greatly on intense
live performances that
have been known to draw diehard fans from up to a
six hours drive away. The
band carries themselves with a reckless abandon on
stage that frequently
leads to injuries for the both band members and
bouts of intense exhaustion
driving the front man Kevin to vomit after almost
every performance (and
sometimes even during.) Between Kevin and Justine,
they have scored a total
of 7 broken bones and 9 forehead staples (resulting
from an unfortunate
meeting of monitor and forehead.) Kevin professes
that these wild stage
antics are not just about his intense love of the
fans that attend their
shows, but also an homage to the awesome shows of
the heroes that Math the
Band has shared numerous stages with, such as:
Andrew WK, Matt and Kim, Adam
Goren of Atom and His Package, Polysics, and
Japanther.
Currently, Math the Band is gearing up to release
their second full-length
album ôDonÆt Worryö in June 2009, this time
supported by up-and-coming
indie/electo label: Slanty Shanty Records (ANAVAN,
Mose Giganticus, CAW!
CAW!, The Emotron) based out of Los Angeles. The
band has plans to tour the
entire United States twice during the summer of
2009, playing everywhere from
large concert halls, to high school cafeterias, to
the sweaty-packed
basements of random fans. On top of touring in
2009, Math the Band is
already planning to release their long-awaited rock
opera entitled ôDonÆt
Lose the Magic Eye,ö which is due to hit shelves in
late winter