Ma Bell shirt. Available in red or black. Sizes are YL-XXL. $6.00, ppd. Please specify size and color.
8-Track Player shirt. Available in red or black. Sizes are YL-XXL. $6.00, ppd. Please specify size and color.
Jazz Records For Sale cd + shirt. $15.00 ppd. Please specify shirt type, size, and color.
Jazz Records For Sale cd + shirt + either Racetrack's Go Ahead and Say It or USS Horsewhip's Wants You Dead cd's. Or both. You choose. $20.00 ppd. Please specify shirt size/color/type, whether you want Racetrack or USS Horsewhip or both cd's.
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Chances are, if you're reading this bio, you probably fall into one of two camps: either you're already familiar with the members of Police Teeth and their previous endeavors, or you don't know who they are, don't give a crap where they came from, and just want to know what this Police Teeth band can do for you. Fair enough. We'll spare you the story of the two hardest-working bands from a sleepy college town. No need to mention that between them they played nearly 400 shows, released five critically acclaimed records, toured the country eight or nine times, and shared the stage with bands as notable and diverse as Andrew WK, Built To Spill, Caustic Resin, The Epoxies, The Thermals, Three Inches Of Blood and Zeke. OFN, dude.
It's just as well, because the racket Police Teeth make doesn't really sound a lot like Racetrack's feedback-damaged power-pop, or USS Horsewhip's violent noise-punk. Instead, Police Teeth pay homage to an era when "post-punk" wasn't just a lazy synonym for disco (The Wipers, Pere Ubu, and Tubeway Army are all counted as key influences), and "indie rock" meant a lot more than being a hip term for adult contemporary (Superchunk, Jawbox, and Archers Of Loaf are ripe for namechecking, as well).
Police Teeth's first album, Jazz Records For Sale, was recorded in June 2007 at Seattle's famous Egg Studio with Conrad Uno (Mudhoney, PUSA, Young Fresh Fellows, Zeke) behind the boards. In just twenty-seven minutes, Jazz Records For Sale analyzes, dissects, and rearranges facets of ripping hardcore punk, jangle-pop, dark psychedelia, and minimalist post-punk drones. The result is a record that is unified yet stylistically diverse and doesn't wear out its welcome, not to mention that Police Teeth manage to cover a Spizzenergi song that isn't "Where's Captain Kirk?".
Jazz Records For Sale will be available at independent music retailers in late 2007, provided that there will be any independent music retailers left by the end of the year.
It's 10:30 on Monday morning. I'm at work and I forgot my Ipod. To fill the silence my brain has decided to play "Here Come The Drums" for itself. Not a bad song to have stuck in your head on a Monday morning.
I fell asleep on a bus in Mexico and woke up with Police Teeth playing on my mp3 player and a member of the Mexican army pointing a machine gun at me through the window. Apparently they were looking for drug smugglers.
