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The Self-Interest Collective

Getting lost in myspace band meat market since2005

About Me

Formed in fire, the Self-Interest Collective has been spreading famine and disease for nearly a millennium. Kings kneel down before them, and mountains tremble in their presence. Sometimes they take a break from all the famine and disease and make some music, but still like to throw in a little famine here and there to spice things up."On stage, the band has the remarkable charisma that numerous big-name bands lack. " --The Student Life http://www.tsl.pomona.edu/?page=lifestyle&article=2432&a mp;issue=83 We are coming for you.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/6/2006
Band Website: youtube.com/watch?v=PhuIlg4ZD50
Band Members: The Collective:
MC Marybel--tight flow, lactose tolerance
Paul--makes sun shine on all your days, rhythmically hits stuff
Xtreme Kareem--keyboard kraziness, Pro-Tools pandemonium, more spare lives than cats
Alejandro--bass, guitar, uncanny tapir resemblence
Ben--raised by robots, who taught him inhuman guitar and bass skills
Jimmy Wendt--wild screaming, trumpet-like device
Taylor--hot, steamy sax
Brendan--lightning-quick reflexes, bajo, guit-fiddle, unsettling ideas
Justin--(barely) managing to put up with this nonsense
Kate--Dangerous drawings of doom!
Truji--WHAT!!(*(!*?!
Joe--omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous
Dan--immoral support
Noah--deathless eternal being from the outer reaches of the Andromeda Galaxy
Influences: Triclops, Go By Train, Ringside Hollywood, We are the Pilots, Robots in Disguise, the Papers, Mel Brown Jazz Septet, No Heroes, Leftover Crack/Choking Victim/Morning Glory/INDK, Fishbone, Against Me!, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, RX Bandits, Buena Vista Social Club, Fugazi, Death from Above 1979, music, love, revolution, the Slackers, Streetlight Manifesto/BOTAR/Catch 22, Sublime, The Clash, Gang of Four, Propagandhi, Bad Brains, Bad Religion, The Germs, Dead Kennedys, The Meters, Los Calzones Rotos, M.I.A., Bob Marley, Sergent Garcia, Manu Chao, Celia Cruz, The Minutemen, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Rage Against the Machine, Barrington Levy, Warrior King, Arcade Fire, Murder by Death, Gregory Isaacs, The Fugees/Lauryn Hill/Wyclef, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Corporate Avenger, Miles Davis, Cultura Profetica, Ozomatli, Dead Prez, the Coup, Cypress Hill, NWA, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, Desaparecidos, Capdown, Operation Ivy, Mephiskapheles, The Specials, The Skatalites, The Planet Smashers, Pixies, Tsunami Bomb, Sonic Youth, Nekromantix, The Refused, Broken Social Scene, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Rilo Kiley, Tool, Thursday, Authority Zero, the Roots, Talib Kweli/Blackstar/Mos Def, The Shins, Black Eyes, Scared of Chaka, King Prawn, Fugazi, Toots and the Maytals, The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower, Casual Indifference
Sounds Like: Rupert Murdoch Invades MySpace
bloggers rage @ murdoch
What MySpace means to Murdoch
The Trojan Horse Of Internet Censorship
Who is Rupert?
Bigger than Kane
outfoxed
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new song up from upcoming cd

Yo I put up a new song, called Somethin' Ya Need off of our upcoming full length Music, Love and Revolution. Check it out, and keep checking back for details on obtaining a cd (very possibly free!) i...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Thu, 29 May 2008 10:48:00 PST

Album Update

The new CD will be done soon. Like, really soon. Like within a couple weeks probably. Keep a look out. We'll figure out a way to make it available in many different places. This CD will probably ...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:28:00 PST

so yeah, we’re kind of on a break for a little while

...but look out for our new CD! there is no release date or any of that nonsense, because we don't have a label or anyone telling us what to do or when to do it. which means things like an album go ...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:16:00 PST

LAST CONCERT FOR (at least) 7 MONTHS!

February, 1 2008 at Smith Campus Center basement170 E 6th St, Claremont, California 91711Cost : free!Last show for at least 7 months!!! Last show with Xtreme (?)! We're playing with a bunch of bands f...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:40:00 PST

CONTACT INFORMATION

To contact The Self-Interest Collective, call or email our manager Justin.Cell: (562) 569-0704Home: (909) 607-4963Email: [email protected] look forward to hearing from you!...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:47:00 PST

New song?!

I just put up a rough mix of a new song to prove that all these months that we say we've been recording, we actually have. Also, I think the new recordings we're working on shed a better light on wha...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:29:00 PST

some more recording

we've been doing some more recording. i doubt anyone really reads this thing, but i want to say that we will be having a full length come out sometime, hopefully not too long from now. we've been re...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:46:00 PST

More recording

We have begun recording again. Hopefully, within a few months we will have a full-length for you all to skank and beat each other up to. Thanks everyone who tuned into our radio show on 88.7 KSPC th...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:35:00 PST

Saturday night was something else...

Thanks so much everyone who came out to see us with Yesca, ISEF and...of course, THE SKATALITES on Saturday night. The crowd was really what made it. All the bands that played were great, it was so ...
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:38:00 PST

The SIC opening for The Skatalites!

The SIC will be opening for the Skatalites on March 17th at the Coachouse in San Juan Capistrano. More information on this will be posted soon.
Posted by The Self-Interest Collective on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:54:00 PST