More shows / SXSW / New recordings
Hey! I keep forgetting about this website. For a long time I couldn’t even find the login info. It’s like when I tried having a tumblr. That was a dumb idea.
On March 20th, we’re playing at the Mink Houston with Grandpa Egg (Nashville, TN) and a couple other bands. Somewhat before that (Wednesday March 14, specific-like) we’ll be in Austin, playing at a place called Bernadette’s. This is during all that South by Southwest clusterfuck. We go on at 9:00. Other great people are playing too – Cocker Spaniels, Darwin’s Finches, The Escatones. All of this, I assume, is Googleable.
We’ve got a new album coming out as soon as we can mix it (and then do all the other stuff), but we’re sneaking into Steve’s studio and recording for free whenever he’s got spare time so that’s made things less than timely. But the price is right! This is the record with the full band, recorded nice and clean and proper-like (not in my bedroom). Look for it to come out… eventually.
My upstairs neighbors are taking an axe to an old couch because it won’t fit down the stairs. But how did it get upstairs in the first place? Maybe they’re just angry.
Beats,
Joe
Upcoming Shows / I can make posts now
Hey, so:
1) On Thursday, December 22, The Mathletes are playing at Notsuoh’s (314 Main / Houston 77002 / lookitup!). Muhammad Ali, Mikey and the Drags and Busy Kids are also on the bill, which means I will have to turn my amp up. This one will be a lot of fun.
2) Like it says below, there’s also a show on Christmas Day with Roky Moon and BOLT!, The Manichean and New York City Queens. That, as well, will be fun (a lot of it).
3) We are also playing at Awty International School with our good friends Buxton. This is in January. F_n.
4) I lost my login info for this site for awhile but now I have it again so I can make posts. Thanks again to Rob for making it so that there is a themathletes.com.
5) 2012 is the year the world is going to end, which means either the world is going to end or people are going to stop caring so much about the world ending, which means either way that I might as well finish up that album I’ve been sitting on, the one about the end of the world.
6) But first I have some Christmas songs to finish up.
Love,
Joe M
Mathletes have a Christmas show at the New Walter’s with Roky Moon and Bolt
We are playing a show in Houston on December 25th at 8pm at the new Walter’s on Naylor. Doesn’t have nearly the same ring to it…
1120 Naylor St Houston, TX 77002
With friends:
The Manichean
http://themanichean.com/
New York City Queens
http://www.facebook.com/
The Mathletes
http://themathletes.com/
8pm
Look for posters around town coming soon, containing a hidden clue on how to join your friends for some holiday cheer!
More details to come . .
The Mathletes New LP, Excalibur is out October 13th.
We had a local release show and it went swell and a lot of really special people showed up. Here are some videos that have surfaced. Stay tuned, and look for our official release October 13th.
Here is a link to some pictures Ramon Medina took http://tinyurl.com/3rz4m6d
Thank you everyone for coming to the show. Look for us on August 27th at Cactus Music from 4 to 5pm. There will be free beer courtesy of local brewery, Saint Arnolds.
Welcome to The Mathletes Website
The Mathletes are coming out with a new album called Excalibur. It’s a “real” album (not a CD-R or tape or bunch of mp3s), so I’ve been asked by the locals who run Homeskool Records to promote it some. This is part of that.
We’re doing a local record release show on August 13th at Fitzgerald’s I’m hoping will be a big enough thing. I asked lots of my favorite people to play and do “versus” sets; two bands setting up at once and then either trading off songs, collaborating, maybe they’ll actually fistfight but probably not. This practice, the “versus” (or “cockfight” show), has its roots in other things that other people have done. Click here to read more about the show.
Here’s some basic information about The Mathletes, like a press release: it began as a teenage bedroom pop / noise recording project. After a couple years a friend helped me set up a website where I offered a mail-order subscription thing: six albums for twenty-three dollars, mailed out over the course of a year. I did two of these (“The Ninja Death Club”… I was young), and eventually Asaurus Records, the aforementioned CD-R label based out of Michigan (later Athens, GA) offered to put out some stuff. Around then some friends convinced me to start up a live performance-type band; folks came and went and after a few lineups fell apart it turned into a revolving door Guided by Voices / Fall thing, nice fun indie-pop with one guy at the center. Asaurus knocked it off in 2008, and since then I’ve kept putting out limited-release CD-Rs here in Houston, playing shows rarely and recording a ton. We don’t tour and I find promoting myself to be difficult and weird but I’ve been making music for over a decade and probably won’t stop. We have another website now, with a domain name and everything. A steady band, too. The (long-overdue) discography I’m working on is up to 39 separate “proper” albums and EPs, and we may have hit 40 by the time you read this. Aside from music I have led a full and interesting life. I am 27, tall and I did not trust anybody else to write a press release.
Sincerely,
Joe Mathlete
We have a website
Thanks to Rob for making this and generally being very helpful. I still don’t know how to make a website but recognize that it is an important thing to have.
- Joe
