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About Me

++++++++++++THE MATHLETES NEWEST ALBUM IS BEING RELEASED AS OF TUESDAY MAY 20 2008 IN A LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES. IT IS VERY VERY GOOD AND IT IS PACKAGED TO LOOK LIKE A BOLOGNA SANDWICH. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ORDER A COPY YOU SHOULD GO TO THE ASAURUS RECORDS WEBSITE POST-HASTE AND DO SO. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ A PRESS RELEASE, THIS IS WHERE YOU CAN DO SUCH A THING. +++++++++++++
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Oh weird... The Mathletes, live on PBS, looking very serious (and uncomfortable) while playing a song about a depressed, crippled unicorn who may or may not end up committing suicide. Camera angles galore! (Seriously, this was totally on PBS for some reason)
The Mathletes also have a covers album called THE MATHLETES OWN OTHER PEOPLE'S SONGS available as a free download (But if it wasn't free, it would be at least good enough to steal. At least). Read all about it!
"Contrary to popular belief, we are not a children's band. Or a joke band. Any confusion there is probably mostly my fault. We aren't really even a band a lot of the time; it says the Mathletes, but it's pretty much just me, Joe Mathlete. Hi, I'm Joe Mathlete, and welcome to a MySpace band website on the internet with computers!
Modern technology has made music way too easy to make; basically, if you have a computer and some instruments (technically even just the computer will do), you can be a recording artist. Likewise, if you know some guitar or piano chords and have at least a rudimentary grasp of a language, there should be absolutely nothing stopping you from writing as many songs as you feel like. I have no idea why everybody else doesn't do this.
Though the Mathletes as they appear on record are 98% just me, when we play live it is actually a "we" most of the time. "We" didn't had anything approaching a steady lineup for, well, forever; for the last couple years every single Mathletes show has featured a different lineup. What the Mathletes lack in professionalism, we make up for in unprofessionalism. Also in rock and roll.
Okay, that should be a perfectly servicable MySpace bio. Am I famous yet?"
-Joe Mathlete
Head Mathlete
Like early 2007 or so

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/31/2005
Band Website: allstarpowerup.com
Band Members: Here's a bunch of them:

(video for "Only Shallow," from the new covers album The Mathletes Own Other People's Songs (original by Kevin Shields and the My Bloody Valentines.))
Joe Mathlete has been the sole constant since the band's inception, and writes, performs, and records essentially everything on Mathletes albums (with occasional exceptions). Otherwise, there are or have been scads of other once-and-future Mathletes, helping out live and/or on record in various capacities:

Ryan Goodland (trumpet, guitar, keyboard, bass, vocals)
Mike Switzer (trombone, vocals, bass)
Jeff Goodyear (drums, percussion)
Charles Larrabee (guitar, viola, percussion, vocals, keyboards, samba whistle, cool dances, rock poses, spiritual guidance)
Briana Fitzpatrick (keyboards, guitar, violin, robot noises)
Cley Miller (guitar, spaceship noises, percussion)
Jose Sanchez (bass, drums, pianica, cowbell)
Carlos Sanchez (guitar, percussion)
Gie Gie McGee (keyboards, melodica, tambourine, accordion, vocals, puppets, spiritual guidance)
Mlee Marie (saxophone, vocals, percussion)
Jenny Westbury (vocals, uke, percussion)
Robot McGee (percussion, beeps, cool dances)
Charlie Naked (saxophone, vocals)
Iram Guerrero (DDDRRRUUUMMMSSS)
Chris Bakos (guitar, bass, vocals)
Tom Adams (Bob Nastonovich)
Jeff Miller (bass)
Bubba Hightower (bass, vocals)
Anneli Chamblis (choir director, jingle bells)
Cartwheels in Central Park (choir, awesome)
Stephanie Wittels (choir)
Justin Scarborough (choir)
Michael Scarborough (choir)
Walt Zipprian (choir)
Bill Savoie (drums)
Justin Crane (guitar, frowning)
Kilian Sweeney (keyboard)
Daniel Kim (guitar)
Cassie O'Presets (keyboards)
Awk (computers, spiritual guidance)
Chris Irvin (keyboards)
Cathy Power (keyboards, guitar, bells, marimba, vocals)
Tom Zermeno (percussion, vocals, not entirely sure what else)
Jonathan Ziemba (keyboards, drums, drum programming, spiritual guidance)
Wayne Barnhill (drums)
Jodi McLaughlin (vocals, keyboards)
Paul Ziemba (drums, keyboards)
Margaret Lejune (cello, keyboards)
Jo Bird (viola)
Giorgio Angelini (drums, guitar)
Chris King (drums)
Johnny Freedom (Debasers)
Christa Forster (guitar, vocals)
Keith Reynolds (keyboards, vocals)
Kate Folladori (drums)
Lily (exercise wheel, spiritual guidance)
David Kroll (keyboards)
Kathleen McClure (drums)
Paul Locklear (vocals, spiritual guidance)
Lindsay Kayser (roommate, manager)
Influences: For a partial list, check out the tracklist of our free-as-hell covers album. This makes slightly more sense than just listing bands willy-nilly... We're a band that actually DOES something about our influences!

01. Linger (The Cranberries)
02. Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine)
03. ROYGBIV (Boards of Canada)
04. Choking Tara (Guided by Voices)
05. Unravel (Bjork)
06. Les Os (The Unicorns)
07. Race for the Prize (The Flaming Lips)
08. Seeing Other People (Belle and Sebastian)
09. Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins)
10. Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode)
11. Ghost (Neutral Milk Hotel)
12. True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston)
13. What Goes On (The Velvet Underground)

Also, there's this:

God, I love this.
Sounds Like: Computers and crayons and depressive Saturday-morning cartoon characters, really loud and anxious shrugging, Peter Pan tripping on the stairs and spraining his ankle, dancing vegetables, a fifteen-year-old who makes a video of himself singing a Michael Jackson song and dancing around the room and somehow some kids he goes to school with find the tape and put it on the internet and the kid has no choice but to commit suicide, Lou Barlow if he had two penises.
Record Label: All Star Power Up Records, Asaurus Records
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Neat little Mathletes display case at Sound Exchange Houston

Kevin, Kurt and Beau, the amazingly friendly and knowledgable employees and/or owners of Sound Exchange Records Tapes and CDs (though I don't think they sell many tapes anymore) have provided me with ...
Posted by The Mathletes on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:22:00 PST

All this week: a whole bunch of live videos of us playing our worst/best song

Just a couple so far, with plenty more to come:http://joemathlete.blogspot.com/search/label/animals...
Posted by The Mathletes on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:58:00 PST

Vote for the Mathletes as "Best Cover Band" in the Houston Press Music Awards (seriously!)

Why would we want to win such an award? We have our reasons.But why should you vote for us? Well, we cover a lot of songs, both live and on recordings. And we do it pretty well I think. And differentl...
Posted by The Mathletes on Mon, 05 May 2008 10:23:00 PST

The Mathletes - Live on PBS

Check out the little "About The Mathletes" section and you'll see a clip of us performing an acoustic version of "Harry the Hornless Unicorn" on PBS from last winter. We were asked to play on a locall...
Posted by The Mathletes on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:00:00 PST

A new album coagulates, and also were playing a show in Austin next week

Hi Internet,It's been awhile since I've said anything meaningful here so I thought I'd give a little update of sorts. Here is some information for you, if you were wondering:- The Mathletes are playi...
Posted by The Mathletes on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:37:00 PST

Some lists having to do with the Mathletes circa last year

And now,In no particular order,Some of the covers I recorded but abandoned or did not show anyone for whatever reason:1. Tears of a Clown (Smokey Robinson)2. Wedding (Daniel Johnston)3. Rapture Rapes ...
Posted by The Mathletes on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:23:00 PST

The Mathletes in today’s Houston Chronicle (a big fancy newspaper)!

Check it out... they've got pictures and words and everything. They even did a Pod-Cast where there is talking and also some music.We're saying "Hooray! We will never be cool!"...
Posted by The Mathletes on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:30:00 PST

Saturday, January 5: THE MATHLETES PRETEND TO BE TALKING HEADS (yay!)

Glance a gander at this here:This should be much fun. Sponsored in part by The Skyline, a very rad blog about the Houston music scene. Here's some info straight from the horse's mouth:"HOOTENANNY! The...
Posted by The Mathletes on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:18:00 PST

Hello there, internet

So I've been rather lousy about updating this, and am finding that in general I am not all that good at running a band. I'm gonna try and get a bit better about these things.We have a show coming up o...
Posted by The Mathletes on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:21:00 PST

Houston Press live review / videos

Check it out: words, videos of "Pinocchiobot" and a coupla cover songs, and photos featuring the premier of my new in-progress hobo beard.Much thanks to Dark Meat, Dunnock/Ill Advisory (my new favorit...
Posted by The Mathletes on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:48:00 PST