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About Me

"Electro-pop, with fantastic production and intelligent arrangements."
- CMJ
"Electronica meets groove meets rock all at a really cool party in the Hollywood Hills....an attractive addition to any pop lover's collection."
-CD Baby
"Uncompromising and effective, light-hearted and optimistic party music that competently crosses between electropop and rock, with mainstream appeal and a distinctive quirkiness."
- Connexion Bizarre
"Hotter than Scott Baio in early August."
- Teen People
Help Q build that lifesize gold statue of himself....
This Is Serious Business - available NOW at CD Baby , Amazon.com , iTunes , Rhapsody, Napster, & Bald Freak Music online.
Fortune Favors The Bald & Q*Ball In Space, available now at CD Baby , Amazon.com , iTunes , Rhapsody, Napster, & Bald Freak Music online.
Don't have a credit card? Steal your Dad's!
No money? Get a job!
Don't like electronic music? Buy this instead.
Don't let your custard spoil.
MySpace sucks.
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_____*Over 1 Billion Sold!*_________
MUSIC Q*BALL'S DIGGIN RIGHT NOW:
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
Radiohead - In Rainbows
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Underworld - Oblivion With Bells
Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me....
The Killers - Sawdust

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/8/2004
Band Website: qballmusic.com
Band Members: Q*Ball (vocals, keys, piano, loops)
Bumblefoot (guitars, bass guitar, backing vocals)
Influences: (in alphabetical order): Ali G, animated holiday specials, The Beatles, Beck, Bill Paxton, Bloom County, Brooklyn, Bumblefoot, Calvin and Hobbes, Danny Elfman, disco, Duke Blue Devils basketball, Ennio Morricone, ex-girlfriends, Family Guy, grand pianos, Halloween, heartbreak, horror movies, ice cream, inspirational live music, Japanese beer, John Cusack, life, Lost, marijuana, Mike Patton, The Muppets, the New York Yankees, nostalgia, The Office, old movies, the parents, Peanuts, Pez, Pinot Grigio, pizza, porn, the 1980s, the 1950s, Radiohead, Rod Serling, Santa Claus, Seinfeld, Shiraz, The Simpsons, soppressata, Stephen King, sun dried tomatoes, sushi, Trent Reznor, true love, 24, U2, vintage synths, vintage vinyl, West Highland White Terriers, women, Zach Galifianakis, and especially

Sounds Like:

And also:
Moby, Beck, Pop-era U2, Faith No More, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, White Zombie, old B-52's, Prince, The Beloved, George Michael, Basement Jaxx, Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk

Record Label: Bald Freak Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Q*Ball featured in new book, The Brooklynites!

Yours truly is featured, along with the likes of Steve Buscemi, Rosie Perez, Sufjan Stevens, John Turturro, Matisyahu, Fischerspooner's Casey Spooner, Jonathan Lethem, Paul Auster, & many mor...
Posted by Q*Ball on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:59:00 PST

This Is Serious Business is here

Q*BALL GIVES BIRTHMaking an album is like having a baby (minus the obvious physical discrepancies). You carry these songs with you for months - in your head, in your heart, on your person. ...
Posted by Q*Ball on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:01:00 PST

pre-order This Is Serious Business now!

It's here. Finally. Pre-order the new album - Q*Ball's This Is Serious Business now at: BaldFreak.comAmazon.comYou can also download the album & check out audio samples at Digstation.com.&nb...
Posted by Q*Ball on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:23:00 PST

new album update

First of all, Happy New Year, y'all. All the best to all my friends & fans in '07. Normally, I'd spend time & energy bitchin' & moanin' over how glad I was to see the previous ...
Posted by Q*Ball on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:23:00 PST

This Is Serious Business

"Hey Q*Ball - where the f*** is your new album?"I can't tell you how many times I've heard that question so far this year.Four times. At least.Yes, it's September. And I promised a new rec...
Posted by Q*Ball on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:33:00 PST

Bumblefoot joins Guns N Roses

I don't usually reserve this space for personal thoughts/reflections (my Chris Daughtry rant aside) - frankly I'm just too damn busy these days. Seems like a diary/blog/journal seemed more reali...
Posted by Q*Ball on Sat, 20 May 2006 06:41:00 PST

I Am Not Chris Daughtry

When I began this electronic musical journey with the release of my debut album, Q*Ball In Space, in mid-2002, I knew the comparisons to Moby would be inevitable. He's a NYC-based bald musician with a...
Posted by Q*Ball on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:57:00 PST

Q*BALL NEWS! (DEC.05)

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM Q*BALL!! What a year it's been - it's hard to believe I've been doing this music thing for FOUR YEARS now, but 2005 was certainly the most fruitful for yours truly. Our placement o...
Posted by Q*Ball on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:04:00 PST