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 Great Lakes Myth Society's Profile |
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High Society |
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| Location: | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Jun 23, 2008 (553 days back) |
About Me |
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| Michigan-based “Northern Rock” collective the Great Lakes Myth Society declared itself a proper entity on January 1st 2004. The group’s previous incarnation as the Original Brothers and Sisters of Love yielded two critically-lauded albums (1999’s “The Legende of Jeb Minor” and 2001’s “H.O.M.E.S.”) for the Brooklyn, New York indie label The Telegraph Company and successful appearances at New York City’s Knitting Factory, CMJ, SXSW and Boston’s NEMO Festival, but by 2002 the amicable departure of violinist and native New Zealander Elisabeth Auchinvole and the record company’s untimely financial collapse had left the band with two gaping holes in its side and a mammoth completed record with no home. Rather than fold up their maps and head inward, longtime friends Timothy Monger (accordion, guitar & vocals), James Monger (guitar & vocals), Gregory McIntosh (guitar & vocals), Scott McClintock (bass & vocals) and Fido Kennington (drums & vocals) adorned themselves in the most affordable black suits available and took to the stage under a new banner. The Great Lakes Myth Society’s eponymous debut, an alternately brooding and nostalgic blend of muscular English folk-rock, pine-kissed Northern Americana and Midwest grit was released in April 2005 on the Boston-based label Stop, Pop & Roll. The band hit the road, and within weeks the GLMS had broken into the CMJ Top 100 and appeared on both the CNN website and NPR’s All Things Considered.
In the spring of 2006, the band inked a deal with Southeast Michigan-based publishing house, record label, web developer and video/television production company Quack!Media and began work on a new record. The resulting “Compass Rose Bouquet”, a phrase described by James Monger as a “dangerously colorful metaphor for summer in the North”, views the region through a much broader lens than the one used to oversee the band’s previous offering. In this episode, ghosts of dead high school friends drift along the sidewalks of your hometown in a parade of smoke (“Midwest Main Street”), ravens scour the Massachusetts turnpike for half-finished beers (“Eastern Birds”), fleets of black flies arrive overnight with detailed maps to the holes in your screens {“Days of Apple Pie”} and petite girls in summer dresses, with legs still white from winter eagerly sign the lease to the apartment you’ve lived in for the whole of your twenties (“Heydays”). Scott McClintock muses “the self-titled debut was indeed quite a darkly cloaked affair; smoky with soot and stained with lamp oil. “Compass Rose Bouquet” manages to mix that bare-branched-midnight-orchard vibe with some (gasp) sunshine and greenery...only there's probably a dead body under all the lawn clippings”. A combination of boots hitting the stage, brakes on the highway and rain on your roof, “Compass Rose Bouquet” arrived on July 10, 2007.The band is currently touring and will be releasing a new limited edition single in March 2008. Download Compass Rose Bouquet .. Order Compass Rose Bouquet Reviews and Features: |
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Music:Member Since: 10/14/2004Band Website: greatlakesmythsociety.com Band Members: James Christopher Monger Timothy Monger Gregory McIntosh J. Scott McClintock Fido Kennington Influences: Steeleye Span David Bowie XTC Camper Van Beethoven The Clash Queen Folkways Records Topic Records Harvest Records Julian Cope The Kinks Trip Shakespeare The Zombies Pink Floyd Jellyfish The Gourds Fairport Convention Television Paul Clayton The Pogues Electric Light Orchestra The Move Sounds Like: Northern Rock Record Label: QuackMedia Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Rock / Pop / Indie) |
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My Blog |
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Rock City is not like Seashell City... |
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| Just one show this month and it's a big one. Our friends over at Detour Magazine have invited us to play their first annual (or first and last, or maybe just first) Rock City festival. They've p... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:08:00 PST |
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GLMS to play two sets at Kirtland College |
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| We have been invited to head North and play a special show at Kirtland College in Roscommon, Michigan to cap off their Warbler Festival. We closed down a brewery earlier this month and now we're... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:36:00 PST |
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GLMS battle Narwhale and get a shot named after them. |
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| Great Lakes Enemy No. 1That's what Mighty Narwhale singer/keyboardist John Pataky had taped to his synth along with a picture of GLMS last weekend in Mt. Pleasant. The battle raged through that ... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:37:00 PST |
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GLMS covers The Hard Lessons |
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| This video was shot last month in Memphis at the home of our friend Bruce Pates. We drove there after finding out our New Orleans show had been canceled. Sadly, we missed our friends The H... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:10:00 PST |
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Houston, City of Magic |
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| During our 2007 visit, we had some problems in Houston. Houston, we had some problems. We found the maze of highways a horrific mess, the weather dreary, our hotel depressing with sad stra... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST |
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Tour Wraps and Home Fries, Volume 1 (Fort Worth, TX) |
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| Esteemed Colleagues,
Though our patience for the written (typed) word dwindled somewhere around Memphis, our bloody hearts continued to swallow new experiences and friends, some of which I will highli... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:55:00 PST |
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The Austin Report |
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| WEDNESDAY: MARCH 12 (AUSTIN) Redlining across the map like Burt Reynolds and Dom Delouise in Canonball Run, we raced toward Austin to try and make our 11pm SXSW showcase slot. The wind tested... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:36:00 PST |
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Oklahoma, Where the Wind Makes Mincemeat of Your Van |
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| (Dodge Dealership, Oklahoma City)Esteemed colleagues,We arrived in Tulsa around six and were greeted to our first day of 70 degree weather. Rogers & Hammerstein weren’t kidding abou... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:47:00 PST |
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Lincoln, Nebraska 1808 |
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| Greetings from the American mid-section! I’m sitting at the bar in Box Awesome in the Haymarket district of the fine village of Lincoln, Nebraska enjoying a delicious Old Style Tall Boy amidst a... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:00:00 PST |
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New Music, Tour, SXSW & You |
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| In harmonic partnership with our friends at Quack Media, we are pleased to bring you our very first single release!Two new songs are now available for free download here at our media page and on our M... Posted by Great Lakes Myth Society on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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JCM, Timothy Monger, Scott McClintock, Fido, Big Sky Recording, The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love, Matey & Whale, gr3yman, Starling Electric, LIGHTNING LOVE!, matt jones, Chris Bathgate, Johnny Headband, CANADA, The Mighty Narwhale, The Hard Lessons, Sycamore Smith, The Pop Project, Serenity Court, Mick Bassett, Mason Proper (new songs up), SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME, the new green -now on itunes, Zoos of Berlin, Misty Lyn and The Big Beautiful, FREER, Jim Roll, frontier ruckus, the Muggs, The Silent Years, Porchsleeper, Javelins, The Satin Peaches, Child Bite, Dirt Road Logic, NOMO, Deastro, Blanche, Dave Boutette, Handmade Detroit, go go yugo, DETOUR, Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band), Joda, KEN’S LOUD BAND, Brandon, One Ring Zero, Bone Orchard Revival, Jennifer Jones, Great Lakes Angel, Mr. Kelley, PincushionKid™, J-$(MI)TH, LocalMusicLife.com, Spack, MC Trashpedal, Jen n Ash, BlueRoot, annie moss, : Daniel Lopes :, Monica, The Mad Pacifist, Sh! The Octopus, Tanya Diona, Papa Pete's, christophe, AMY BIERHAUS, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Brandon, Dr. Starfish, The Set List, The Basement on Impact 89FM, Biff, Philosophy Club, Gregory, Marysue aka Friday's Child, Kathleen Bracken, Keweenawesomefest, MILE 77
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