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joe fain

send lawyers, guns, and money

About Me


Greensboro, N.C.'s indie pioneers, joe fain, take art rock to its fringes of compositional intensity after a quiet divorce from image and pretension. Approached democratically and with versatile hands, the musicians of joe fain have patiently crafted a distinctive brand of rock and roll that is sonically potent and lush in interplay. A vision of intricate arrangement reinforces their sweeping and conflicted songwriting with technically adept yet sincere musicianship. The band's first full-length LP, "Tractors in Valhalla", was recorded in July of 2005 @ GWRR, mixed in February of 2006 @ Engine Studios, mastered in April of 2006 @ West West Side Music, and is currently awaiting its first pressing. Forged in the institutions of dead-end education, tempered in working class frustration, rich in texture, our veiny cocks thrust onward.

My Interests

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Member Since: 5/8/2005
Band Website: joefainrock.com
Band Members: phil shands [email protected]
owen burd [email protected]
hunter allen [email protected]
austin karp's fantastical arrow smashing

for band info e-mail us at [email protected]
Influences: Some Music We Enjoy
Hum, The Smashing Pumpkins, Dredg, Menthol, Shiner, Sigur Ros, My Bloody Valentine, Glifted, Five-Eight, God Speed! You Black Emperor, Sebadoh, Pulp, Helmet, My Morning Jacket, Blonde Redhead, Failure, Thursday, The Flaming Lips, X-Japan, Rush, Styx, Led Zepplin, Boston, Queen, Strung Out, Faith No More, Opeth, Centaur, National Skyline, AFI, ... and you will know us by the trail of dead, Dinosaur, Jr., Open Hand, Ministry, International Submarine Band, ARS, Bloc Party, Death Angel, Appleseed Cast, Lies, Joy Division, Rival Schools, WASH, Iron Maiden, Slayer, The Cure, Teagan and Sara, the (new) Folk Implosion, the Life and Times, Ashen, FSOL, Beta Band, Erasure, Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, ZZ Top, 19yr old girls w/ A-cups, New Order, Tool, 1-Speed Bike, The Knife , The Constantines, Black Dice, Frank Zappa, Ween, John Zorn, (Eric Schenkman era) Spin Doctors, (Cliff Burton era) Metallica, Dmitri Shostakovich, Hector Berlioz, David Maslanka, Alban Berg, globe, Steve Reiche, Jeff Buckley, My Vitriol, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, William Shatner, Animal Collective, RE:, Sofa, Pelican, M83, Disappointment, Anger, 1 Mile North, Celebration, Dungen, Terminus Victor, Trans Am, T.V. on the Radio, DNTEL, Fantomas, The Broadcast, Lucero, Calla, Cul-De-Sac, Exhaust, Explosions in the Sky, Fly Pan Am, Hangedup, Hymie's Basement, Magnetic Fields, Modest Mouse, Klaus Nomi, Death From Above 1979, Liars, Octopus Project, Pavement, Plum, Sonna, Slint, Strapping Young Lad, Tarentel, Growing, Stella Star, Broken Social Scene, Uncut, Stars, Do Make Say Think, Tomorrowland, Tomahawk, Tortoise, Wilco, A Silver Mt. Zion, Russian Futurists, Michael Dykehouse, Molasses, Gram Parsons, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Eagles of Death Metal, VHS or BETA, !!!, Mellowdrone, Slowdive, The Dissociatives, John Frusciante, Massona, The Unicorns, HRSTA, up up down down left right b a b a select start, In the Groove/DDR, snowden, dixie dirt, They Might Be Giants, Flying Burrito Bros, Tokyo Police Club, Editors, Band of Horses, Dragonforce, Mouth of the Architect

Sounds Like: indie-prog
Record Label: Looking for a cozy place to call home. Contact us.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

album update 2 - too - also

you can listen to the entire album on our website - www.joefainrock.com - more on the website soon
Posted by joe fain on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:36:00 PST

album update...it's done!

hey!  our record is done...you want to buy it...they will be available online soon...currently they are available directly from us for 10 bones...cd release show coming soon...more updates later....
Posted by joe fain on Sat, 19 May 2007 04:06:00 PST

VOLUME 5 classic rock poetry

if bob seger starts raping in your direction   and you get raped: it's not his fault, you should have gotten out of the way.bob's got his bullet boys in a headlock their hair's wet with sege...
Posted by joe fain on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:37:00 PST

VOLUME 4 classic rock poetry

Ted Nugget, kills, get downbow huntin', beer eatin', face fuckin'trouble's knocking at your door today'Nuge bringeth forth chaos, death, and decaycloudy, with a high risk of jerky conversionwild-eyed ...
Posted by joe fain on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:51:00 PST

"go triad" interview/article link

http://www.gotriad.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061130/G TCOM01/61129010/1069/GTCOM0228
Posted by joe fain on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:22:00 PST

VOLUME 3 classic rock poetry

Eddie Money's really funny when he beats womenEddie's got the money sack his scrote envelopes fame scrote envelopes, a cum gum stampcunt's check is in the mail goop so sick, menses paid in full credit...
Posted by joe fain on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:52:00 PST

VOLUME 2 classic rock poetry

the Foge awakes to lose a load two lines of coke off a sweaty blokeJohn's jean zipper chews his penis meat his chunky-blood feet stomps jungle beat a temptress in rouge and sweaty teddythis ain't no s...
Posted by joe fain on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:25:00 PST

VOLUME 1 Classic Rock Poetry

ginger baker has saddlebagsfrom years of doing crunkginger baker's your mom with fiery bush-pantsginger baker takes your face and makes a cannonballginger's withered insertionholds your hand to cross ...
Posted by joe fain on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:21:00 PST

CLASSIC ROCK POETRY IS COMING!!!!!

EACH WEEK joe fain WILL BE POSTING A NEW VOLUME OF CLASSIC ROCK POETRY ... WEAR A FUCKING DIAPER.. ...
Posted by joe fain on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:15:00 PST

songs are people too

we recorded a new song with our good buddy willshire this past monday...it should be mixed and such with relative quickness as it was done for his final project in the recording program at gtcc...once...
Posted by joe fain on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:53:00 PST