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this is exploding

Reality and Fiction are mostly the same

About Me

Once you label me, you negate me....... ha gulp.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/24/2004
Band Website: thisisexploding.com
Band Members: Joshua Jesty - Vocals, Guitar, strange premonitions that lead to nothing special
Brian Hill - Bass, Vocals, Keyboards
Dan Price - Drums, Vocals, Keyboards
Influences: The Police, Weezer, Nirvana, Wilco, Paul Westerburg, Bjork, the Dismemberment Plan, Jeff Buckley, Afghan Whigs, Oh My God, Queens of the Stone Age, the Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, The Clash, Mock Orange, John Lennon, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, Beck, Led Zeppelin, The Flaming Lips, Stone Temple Pilots, Elvis Costello, the Pixies, Aimee Mann, Our Lady Peace, REM, Nada Surf, Rage Against the Machine, Matthew Good Band, Jimmy Eat World, For Squirrels, Sunny Day Real Estate, the Talking Heads, Varistor, Love Scream, Johnny Cash, the Trolleyvox, and on and on and on and on.
Sounds Like: We're post-indie. But really, why bother knowing what we sound like when you can see what we look like.

Video 1: Fiction
Video 2: Better

Both are directed and brought to life by the great Nathan Bocchicchio.
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Record Label: order the CD here, or on Itunes.com or Emusic.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

we were phished

apparently.  So hopefully we didn't leave any ridiculous comments on your pages, for free cell phones, lazer cameras, penile enlargements or pet wolves.if we did my bad.  well, not really my...
Posted by this is exploding on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:35:00 PST

Just Beg Me/ Neither Do I

I figured in honor of myspace allowing us to up the ante to 6 songs per profile I'd update the page with a few older gems.  As time goes by we'll slip a few more out of the vaults from time to ti...
Posted by this is exploding on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:39:00 PST

Reality and Fiction are mostly the same

well, it's about time we came out with it.  this is exploding is on a very long break/hiatus.  most would go as far to say that we're broken up.  They wouldn't be to far from the truth ...
Posted by this is exploding on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:54:00 PST

last wednesdays performance in all its bootlegged glory

if you missed out on the October 31st this is exploding playing all of Pinkerton set, cast your tears aside for a live bootleg of the whole show resides on Joshua's website atwww.thejoshuaweb.netat so...
Posted by this is exploding on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:47:00 PST

"why do you have weezer’s pinkerton as your main profile pic?" they ask with glee and horror

So Halloween is coming, on the 31rst of October.  It's a fine fine wednesday, which means all the real halloween parties are on the 27th.  Since all the halloween parties are on the 27th (we...
Posted by this is exploding on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:50:00 PST

a quick video update of our recording progress and new sound

I know you're all checking in from time to time, so I figured we owed you this sneak peak into the studio and how the formation of our new sound is going. August 11th we're playing at the Bea...
Posted by this is exploding on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:31:00 PST

a sneak peak into the secret recording process of this is exploding

first off, I should give you a little background information. Bascially, I didn't like this chord progression Brian had shown me and Brian didn't like the sad lyrics I had written and things just kin...
Posted by this is exploding on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:15:00 PST

the world is a spampire

set to advertise.  Good lord myspace has gone down the tubes in a months time.  Every comment we get on here is now an add for something, and usually it's for something we could care less ab...
Posted by this is exploding on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:06:00 PST

Oh we got a birthday here

that's right, the Drummer known as Dan is turning, and after a ton of shows in a ton of strange and wonderful places, vans breaking down and blowing out in the middle of the highway and ever other typ...
Posted by this is exploding on Fri, 11 May 2007 07:19:00 PST

last email we posted: final this is exploding shows for now.

thursday - BJ's Fest at BJ's bar in Fredonia. Show at 10pm with the Gonc. $3 for under, FREE for over.friday - the Sachsenheim Fest in Cleveland at 7001 Denison ave. doors at 9pm, multiple stages o...
Posted by this is exploding on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:44:00 PST