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Jared Mees & The Grown Children

West Coast---- July 10th - July 29th

About Me

Read about our exploits and implosions, heartbreaks and murderings at the official
Jared Mees & The Grown Children Tour Blog!

"Like Elvis Costello if he had grown up an American Stoner... If you wanna swim with the sharks... is fucking fantastic. "
-Willamette Week
"A distinctly Portland blend of lo-fi and high quality – pervades his new album, “If You Wanna Swim With the Sharks …”... These are songs for the morning after and the night before"
The Portland Tribune
"Musically, the tracks are very catchy. They bounce through your head the way a snowboarder bounces off a sick jump. I especially enjoyed the melodies of Panama Anthem and Loboito."
Bob Smithouser, Breakaway Magazine
"Mees croons out emotionally laden numbers reminiscent of Conor Oberst but with a wordmanship indicative of the Lucksmiths..."
PDX Magazine

"Packed full of irresistible melodies and clever turns of phrase…between the varied instrumentation and deliberate dashes of harmony Mees displays an impressive talent with composition and signs of greatness to come”
-harmoniummusic.com


If You Wanna Swim With the Sharks... is full of songs mixing highly palatable pop-punk and sincere and rambling indie-folk, with a wide-eyed exuberance...
-Indiefolkforever.blogspot.com

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"One of the best albums of 2007" -Willamette Week
If You Wanna Swim With The Sharks
Full Length Hand Silk Screened Debut CD
Available for $10 from

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/4/2005
Band Website: tenderlovingempire.com
Band Members: Grown Children/The Reacharounds...etc are the following, in no particular order, at no particular time...check it:Jared sings and plays guitar. Megan plays guitar and keys and tambourine, Jordan plays drums and violas. Sean plays bass. Kevin plays drumkits. Josh plays the bass guitar and sings gang vocals. Gilbert plays keys, organs and synths. Cam plays percussion and drum set. Lisa plays gutar, and washboard and tambourine and sings. Brianne sings. Bri sings. I sing. You sing. yes.

Influences: Paul Simon
Bob Dylan
PBR
Weezer
Face to Face
Panama
The Weakerthans
Chris Simpson
Johnny Cash
Cake
Super XX Man
Brianne
Del
Bright Eyes
Jerome
The Holy Ghost
The Beach Boys
Neil Diamond
Bob Wills
The Son
Carol King
Otis Redding
Actionslacks
The Gloria Record
Death Cab For Cutie
The Lemonades
Finn Riggins
Eminem
The Father
Pennywise
Hank Williams Sr/Jr
MxPx
House of Pain
Modest Mouse
David Kelley

Sounds Like:
Oh No Oh My!!! Sing-along! from Jared Mees & the Grown Children on Vimeo .

Brianne and I singing "Julai Throwback" on Episode 29 of The Mastan Music Hour Podcast
Record Label: Tender Loving Empire
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

2nd Pressing of "If You Wanna Swim w/ the Sharks..."

Hello friends: so the first run of  my first album "if you wanna swim w/ the sharks..." sold out. Tender Loving Empire has reprinted them in a new more 2008 color scheme and they're all ready to ...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:51:00 PST

NEW SONG+LocalCut Comp+New Years Show

..> ..> NEW SONG+Christmas Comp Yo peeps.Just wanted to let everyone know I've got a song called Southwest Colorado on the much lauded and oh so good "ANOTHER GREY CHRISTMAS that was released this...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:52:00 PST

New songs: Mastan Music Hour Podcast Episode 29

Listen and watch the live set Brianne and I recorded at the Mastan Music Studios for the Mastan Music Hour Podcast Episode 29. http://www.mastanmusic.com/podcast. Theres a couple new songs and a coup...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:20:00 PST

West Coast Performer Magazine Review

West Coast Performer wrote a pretty nice little review of "If you wanna swim w/ the sharks..."  For your reading pleasure I've gone ahead and copied it here....its in this months (June 2007) ...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:01:00 PST

Willamette Week Press For Tender Loving Empire + TOUR DIARY

A couple of awesome articles about Tender Loving Empire written by Amy McCullough just came out in today's (6/13/07) issue of Willamette Week as well as online at LocalCut.com. Check em out! "Rad Bege...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:56:00 PST

Downloads and New Songs

Hi friends:   You can download "Loboito" and "Suicide Squeeze" at the IndieFolkForever Blog.  http://indiefolkforever.blogspot.com/2007/01/jared-mee s-if-you-wanna-swim-with.html#links N...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Wed, 30 May 2007 11:10:00 PST

Tour and 2 Comps...

So a short bit of news for everyone: Looks like I'll have a song- Working & Drinking - on the new Failing Records Compilation that comes out in April. It's a cool comp that has like 40 portland ba...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:25:00 PST

Full Album Review- Willamette Week

Willamette Week Feb 7th 2007. ( I couldn't figure out how to link it, so here's the full review) Jared Mees If You Wanna Swim With The Sharks... (Tender Loving Empire) Mees' debut borrows from the be...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:17:00 PST

Fun Press Articles

So theres some press coming in for "If you wanna swim with the sharks" One really cool one at the indiefolkforever blog which you can read here And one really off the wall funny non fictionish type o...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:52:00 PST

The Crazy Dec/Jan Mini-Tour/Vacation (with pics)

So last night after a flurry of travel which included an automobile, 2 planes, a train, a bus and a freezing walk home Branne and I finally made it back to Portland Oregon after having been gone a lit...
Posted by Jared Mees & The Grown Children on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:08:00 PST