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Faux Jean

beware, the mongolian invasion is coming!

About Me

Faux Jean is a singer/songwriter/song-and-dance man based out of the United States.....He was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota..... Though currently residing in Minneapolis, Faux Jean has lived in Frieburg im Breisgau (Germany) and Madison, Wisconsin, as well as in a place called Dinkytown......He has played on the streets of each town named......with a large band (also called Faux Jean) by his side, he has released these four albums:......... "Kiss Life on the Lips" 2001 (New Fidelity)......"Nature" 2002 (Susstones)........"Dead Lover" 2003 (Susstones)........2006 "Light It Up / Burn It Down" (New Fidelity).........2008 will see the solo-demo-debut of Faux Jean's "The Mongolian Invasion, Pt. 1," an album of 4 track cassette recordings hewn at home between 1997 and 2007. Faux Jean likes to play songs for other people.

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Member Since: 2/8/2005
Band Website: fauxjean.com
Band Members: FAUX JEAN
Influences: max weißmüller, john klun, juliane dummler, bob zimmerman, shawn grider, nicole kalodrich, tad schindler, danny dawson, pete van dyke, will eastman, ed ackerson, chan poling, grant hart, paul westerberg, john kinder, lee mavers, lou reed, chris pavlich, john schrei, cody horton, al weiers, dax eckel, matt millette, corinne caouette, morgan burns, erik quackenbush, perry ray vezina, kevin taylor (luthier), lisa briones, cindy timmer, bobby stinson, prince rogers nelson, harry nillson, scott "frenchie" freemont, mike blust, shawn hoffman, chad nelson, brian tighe, bryan hanna, jeff kearns, steve bakken, michael lopez, christopher mcguire, robert pavlacheck (né russell), willie nelson, woody guthrie, dave fox, mike wisti, john munson, matt wilson, dan wilson, brad kern, har mar, jeremy "lucky" allen, john swardson, brien lilje, jacques waite, daven odegaard, woody allen, loi sinnell, 84 caprice, marcellino galang......the pretty peolple, if you will.
Sounds Like: billig musik. lo-fi un-pop. ur-pop. the spring collection. a little steel shanky, whippoorwillesque. tape hiss. hot to tape. maraca addicts anonymous. one man band. hard core entsagen. treble fantasy. reverb madness. you can dance to it, ideally.
Record Label: The New Fidelity
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

buy the blue vinyl single of "Haircut"

MiniatureRecord Clubclick on the above link to go to the website of the club that is selling our new record.The song was recorded last summer at the devil’s workshop in minneapolis with andy lag...
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Posted by Faux Jean on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:20:00 PST