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Unknown Joe

Sloppy-assed country rock since 2002.

About Me

Unknown Joe heads a country-flavoured, soul-aspiring rock band in Bergen, Norway. When not making music, Joe enjoys listening to, reading up on and writing about it. Joes first album, "My Secret Lookalike" was released by Galant Records in the fall of 2004. At the moment Joe and his band, The Happy Pants, are finishing a new record, to be released later in 2006. Working titles for the album include "Dog Only Knows", "Haloes and Failures" and "Vs. Anybody Anywhere". Suggestions are welcome.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/4/2006
Band Members: Erik is in charge of vocals, guitar and all things Joe. The Happy Pants are Sgt. Petter (electric guitar/steel guitar), Bjare (keyboards), Ole Marius (bass/backing vocals) and Raymond (them drums).
Influences: This is going to be a long list, starting with Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Guided By Voices, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Teenage Fanclub, The Byrds, Gene Clark, The Rolling Stones, Swervedriver, Ride, Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, Pavement, Buffalo Tom, The Mendoza Line, The Weakerthans, Josh Rouse, The Flaming Lips, The Beatles, Built To Spill, Acetone, Frank Black, Spiritualized, Pernice Brothers, Daryll-Ann, Yo La Tengo, Sparklehorse, The Jayhawks, Gram Parsons, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Luna, My Morning Jacket and continuing when I get more time. Ok, let´s go on, in no particular unorder: Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley, Aimee Mann, Laura Veirs, Beth Orton, Nina Simone, Dr. John, Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, The Posies, Canyon, Son Volt, Belle and Sebastian, everything Motown, [ingenting], 22 PistePirkko, Ai Phoenix, Afghan Whigs, Asobi Seksu, Band of Horses, Midlake, Beach Boys, Beulah, Kris Kristofferson, Lambchop, Reigning Sound, De Musikalske Dvergene, Pompel and The Pilts, Doktor Kosmos, bob hund, The Minus 5, Ella Fitzgerald, Golden Smog and anybody anywhere.
Sounds Like: Pancakes with bacon and blueberry jam.
Record Label: Galant Records (www.galantrecords.com)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New, almost finished song

Hi there, Dear Readers.As some of you may have noticed, I´ve added a new song: Always some new cloud. This is still a work in progress, but really there´s just the final mixing left. In fact, we´re ge...
Posted by Unknown Joe on Sun, 27 May 2007 04:53:00 PST

New old song

"I guess rock´n´roll can´t save my soul againNext big step for me is r´n´b, I guess"Yup, that´s right, and you heard it here first: Unknown Joe is going r´n´b! Booty time is here - so if it ain´t shak...
Posted by Unknown Joe on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:52:00 PST

New demo

Ok, so I found this old demo, for the song "I Know That Lie", and put it on the site. That doesn´t necessarily mean anything. It´s not about anything. It´s not gonna be on the next album. It´s only be...
Posted by Unknown Joe on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:55:00 PST

The title challenge continues. Sort of.

Ladies and girlymen! Ahem. Eh..Well, to be honest there's nothing new to be heard from this direction right now, which makes the decision to go blogging seem pretty stupid. In a lame attempt to revita...
Posted by Unknown Joe on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:28:00 PST

Lazy and late but full of promise

Hello Mr. and Ms. Internet, just a quick note to let you know that the power is still on here in unknownjoeland. Not many visitors lately, but then the park has mostly been closed lately. As you might...
Posted by Unknown Joe on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:34:00 PST

Live at last

Hello,just a short message to let you know that Unknown Joe and The Happy Pants will be playing at Naked at Cafe Opera on Tuesday October 17th. Hope to see you there!Joe
Posted by Unknown Joe on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:32:00 PST

News at last

Hi,I wonder if anyone will read this if I write something here - let me know :)As some of you may know I´m working on a new Unknown Joe-album. The recording started at the end of 2005, when The Happy ...
Posted by Unknown Joe on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:03:00 PST