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Maria's Arcade

About Me

Maria’s Arcade are four men with various backgrounds in laying down the jams. We came together in December of 2003 and so far have independently recorded three e.p.s. We have the power, and we cannot be stopped.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/12/2004
Band Members: Jason Taylor - drums, Kevin Taylor - guitar and vocals, Jeff Smith - guitar and vocals, Justin Bohna - bass
Influences: Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Everclear, Millincolin, Foo Fighters, The Ramones, Queens of the Stone Age, Stone Temple Pilots, Clutch, Thumb, Tenacious D, Social Distortion, Rage Against the Machine, The Figgs, Bad Religion, 311, Motorhead, Weezer, Tom Petty, Incubus, Van Halen, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, The Talking Heads, The Dandy Warhols, Kiss, Ammonia, Superdrag, AC/DC, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Local H, Metallica, A Perfect Circle, Silverchair, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Pearl Jam, U2, Nirvana, Neil Young, The Replacements, Ben Harper, Zebrahead, Monster Magnet, Powerman 5000, NIN, Marylin Manson, Aerosmith, The Steve Miller Band, Billy Idol.............. It just keeps goin’
Sounds Like: crucified, castrated, and calculated (randomly)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Updating from the MA camp

Hi kids and buds. It's been a little while since we said a few words or ventured out to play live. Our EP is gonna be put on hold for an indeterminate amount of time as well, I'm sorry to say. We're o...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:55:00 GMT

Hit it up!

We're back from teh roselanz and let me tell you; people better stop typing like that all mover my monitor. No, you can. It's just that it's alarmingly impressionable and generally in poor taste. Holy...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:25:00 GMT

The Roseland gets raped but only because it’s a tease

Forget about Memorial Day Weekend and those elderly warriors that shot guns at each other. We're getting ready to rock so hard you'll be sweating bullets of exotic lust. Lance Armstrong McFuckerson is...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:31:00 GMT

Hey!

Last weekend/Wednesday we had some times with great warriors, like Tony Smiley and Aaron Baca! Bethany freakin' owns at dancing and the Tonic had the most adorable, dopey lookin' sound guy. I kinda li...
Posted by on Tue, 20 May 2008 11:27:00 GMT

Friends requests and heedless nostalgia

Often we get a lot of friends requests from other bands. I'm sure this sounds familiar to other bands. This is something I wanted to address today, and while I'm not sure if there's any way I can say ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:10:00 GMT

Holiday Vacation

Ever wonder why a man gets physical and then pulls away...? It's because he's already tapped that and he knows what it's like, so where's the intrigue? Our dicks are guided by mystery, the unknown... ...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:16:00 GMT

ok

We may possibly already have a show TOMORROW @ 15th Street Pub, so come check out the details a little later. Just don't shave anything into your back hair... Ever.
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:17:00 GMT

updates

A message from Jeff Smith: We're taking a short leave of absence, a vacation if you will, from rocking your ears off. Actually Kevin is in New York and/or Boston. I think he's there for a week or...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 13:01:00 GMT

It is an entry and here it comes

Our last show was pretty tight, but I felt I shouldn't have got my buzz on before shaking the blood... but we did get most of it out of our systems towards the end, so it was a rocking success. I'm ju...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:04:00 GMT

First Video!

Hello boys and especially girls. We've finally got a video up here at MySpace, thanks to Albert and Co. Just click on the play button just below our bio and enjoy!
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:20:00 GMT