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parae

par//ae - yes.

About Me

we are fucked up pop music. we'd like to meet u. yeah. our record coming out real soon, meta ambigue.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/30/2004
Band Website: parae.org
Band Members: eriq - vox, guitar, other stuff

tommi tihani - drums, percussion, electronics

with

jerry - synth

corey - bass

Influences: sonic youth, pixies, throwing muses, prince, boards of canada, tricky, siouxsie and the banshees, brainiac, adult., enon, lcd soundsystem, fugazi, bjork, kylie, amon tobin, elvis costello, the cure, suede, fugazi, blur, pulp, prong, sleater-kinney, mu, erasure, missy elliott, curve, !!!, out hud, boredoms, acid mothers temple, neil young, rufus wainwright, husker du, shudder to think, jawbox, primal scream, radiohead, beck, rem, can, morrissey, david bowie, lush, meat beat manifesto, gary numan, l7, bikini kill, pm dawn, blood brothers, adult., xiu xiu, deee-lite, skinny puppy, the juan maclean, dr octagon, catherine wheel, matthew sweet, talking heads, nine inch nails, terence trent d'arby, yaz, cat power, captain beefheart, ani difranco, depeche mode, dismemberment plan, ween, shannon wright, scissor sisters, the coup, nirvana, n.e.r.d., ministry, madonna, public enemy, pj harvey, rush, meshell n'degeocello, cibo matto, yo la tengo, lcd soundsystem, swervedriver, wire, queen, talking heads, stereolab, supergrass, moloko, mary j blige, minutemen, tori amos, miles davis, duran duran, the fall, the orb, aphex twin, helmet, faith no more, sigur ros, zappa, kate bush, gang of four, delta 5, joni mitchell, death from above, mission of burma, soft pink truth, ramones, tom waits, b-52s, basement jaxx, babes in toyland, ooioo, bikini kill, elliot smith, menomena, pet shop boys, air, antony and the johnsons, goldfrapp, daft punk, ladytron, neutral milk hotel, tracy + the plastics, sinead o'connor, el-p, deerhoof, tv on the radio, beatles, liars, atari teenage riot, scott walker, andrew wk, unwound, thomas fehlman, buzzcocks, ween, etc.etc.etc.....
Sounds Like: whatever we want, whenever we want.
Record Label: para soniq records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the real blog is @

http://www.parae.org/blog.htmljussa reminder...in case u only look here and it seems we're inactive. i post lots of melodrama.-e
Posted by parae on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:00:00 PST

progress

we just recorded drums for one of the songs i did while tommi was in hong kong earlier this year, so yay! it actually went very smoothly for once, maybe cuz we spent some a couple weeks preparing the...
Posted by parae on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:04:00 PST

status

i am turning 27 shortly. death year death year death year! fortunately i have no musical talent. were still trying to get it together. we moved into a new house in gayland in sf, iz ok. i work...
Posted by parae on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 12:02:00 PST

everything i know about musicians and the music industry

this ain't no bluster, this is for real universal sentiments, my audience can feel we're modern rock, but we used to be alternative we're kicking out the jams, yeah we came to give and give we pai...
Posted by parae on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:51:00 PST

some words / sounds better with music, i suppose

go out to the club see cocks full of poison, mouths filled with spite which one of these children of tragedy might validate us, dissapoint us make u fall in love with us oh we feel the uglyness of...
Posted by parae on Mon, 22 Aug 2005 04:56:00 PST

the happenings

we've been quite productive, aside from becoming somewhat addicted to myspace, much work has been managed to be completed on the new tracks for the soundtrack possibility. we've received word that it...
Posted by parae on Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:16:00 PST

what we doing, as of right now...

at the current moment we are attempting to finish some tunes for a soundtrack type possibility. not sure if anything will come of it, but it's an excuse to finish a couple of tracks that have been si...
Posted by parae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fuck rupert murdoch

fuck myspace and the company that owns this shit (intermix or something) for selling out to right wing sociopath asshole rupert murdoch. we're out of here if this place starts getting sketchy or we s...
Posted by parae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

individual myspace pages!

cuz we're such wankers, tihani and i have our own individual myspace pages now, so now i can at least get twice as bored with this site in half the time! woo-hoo!
Posted by parae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

new music added!

currently available exclusively on myspace, cuz i'm too lazy to upload onto our real website, check out our new tunes - the failed musician + jazz. once again failing to aheed to the "formula," for su...
Posted by parae on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST