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James Kearns

Don't Let That Horse Eat That Violin

About Me

My names is James Kearns and I write songs (among other things).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/6/2005
Band Members: James Kearns - Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards, Bass, Banjo, Drums & Other Assorted Noise
Influences: Bob Dylan. The Smashing Pumpkins. Bright Eyes. The Arcade Fire. Broken Social Scene. Modest Mouse. Spoon. Nirvana. Animal Collective. Bloc Party. Pavement. The Beatles. Joy Division. Wolf Parade. Iron & Wine. Radiohead. Johnny Cash. Sonic Youth. Tom Waits. Herman Dune. Neutral Milk Hotel. The Clash. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. M.I.A. Sufjan Stevens. The Violent Femmes. Wilco. Feist. Stars. The Hold Steady. Frog Eyes. The Rolling Stones. Sunset Rubdown. The Magnetic Fields. Camera Obscura. The Velvet Underground. Interpol. David Bowie. Refused. Frog Eyes. Joanna Newsom. Yo La Tengo. Swan Lake. Smog. Destroyer. The Thermals. Boris.
Sounds Like: Tape hiss.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Best Songs of 2006 - Parts One & Two

It's finally time. Or close enough to it, anyway. I've decided that 2006, for all intensive purposes, is over, and as such, I'm presenting right here and right now the first half (5 songs) of my top t...
Posted by James Kearns on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:53:00 PST

Are You Swimming In Her Pools?

Ok. So. How's everyone enjoying the Pink Mantis stuff? Good. That's really great. Nothing much new. I'm writing and recording a batch of new acoustic whiny folk songs in December so everyone should co...
Posted by James Kearns on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:12:00 PST

Woman King & The Return Of Pink Mantis (Guitarist Wanted)

I decided to take "The Long Run" down for a while. Now that I'm single and (most) everything is settled I don't feel the need to express my pain and sorrow so publicly. So instead of mopey James Kearn...
Posted by James Kearns on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:43:00 PST

In The Long Run

Just one new song today. And perhaps for awhile. Silly me, I went and got my heart broken all over again. Which means more melodrama like this. Oh well. Boys write songs for girls. It's tradition...
Posted by James Kearns on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:03:00 PST

Swimmers

Swimmers My lover floated awayin a ship called Running Mansailing off the edge of my flat worldlooking for spheres               &...
Posted by James Kearns on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:52:00 PST

Settling On Upheaval

First, the songs: If Your Body: this is a song I wrote for a woman named Lara. I actually used it to seduce her. It took no time to write and a litte longer to record. I wanted it to be imperfect and...
Posted by James Kearns on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:22:00 PST

Best Songs Of 2005

Ok...after much pressure from my friends (ok...one friend, and he only suggested it in passing.) I have compield my top ten songs of 2005. Lots of good stuff I know I missed, especially from earlier i...
Posted by James Kearns on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:48:00 PST

New Songs

Well, I'm fairly certain no one ever comes here but I added two new songs so i could show them to mulitple friends easily. they are both very rough demos, "Friend" is an original and simple acoustic s...
Posted by James Kearns on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:42:00 PST

First Entry

Thank you to everyone who wants to be my friend. I'm soryr my picture looks so....emotionally pensive, because i;m nto trying to look pompous and plan to replace it. I don;t take this stuff as seriosu...
Posted by James Kearns on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:44:00 PST