Bloggystyle -- The Greatest

One of the reasons I've been posting sparsely lately is because I've been working out a joint venture on a very important project.

Back during the Myspace Create a Band craze that saw some members of the Mindset Army create notorious rock groups Heartscab and Raw Public, the creators of this page along with various associates formed Shredded Paper, a Dub/Screamo/Thrash group whose sound could only be described as "the sweet transient sounds of Hole mixed with the witty lyricism of Fred Durst."



Admittedly we weren't taking our project, or our new record label, Happily Aborted Fetus Records, all that seriously to start, figuring we were just following the revolutionary trail.

But then some unpredictable things occurred. First, the Mindset Army groups, such as Raw Public and Heartscab, became less active. And second, Shredded Paper was an unexpected crowd pleaser earlier this month at the Backalley Baby Bash concert on the North Side of Milwaukee.

No Homo Juelz Santana, but before we could even get a handle on things, Shredded Paper was blowing up and getting heard. Tip Top Sound Recording Studios contacted us and invited the band to go down and make what Juelz would call some "beautiful fucking things," no homo. The duo put forth some concepts and got a decent distribution deal.

And before you could even say "I swear I've heard this shit before somewhere," no homo juelz santana, local groups wanted to jump on the bandwagon and get involved with Shredded Paper. A few groups have since wanted Shredded Paper to join a tour. The first group to contact us was a poor man's Trent Rezner calling his one man group Laromlab. Frankly, their music sounds like Mr. Rezner-lite put an audio cassette recorder up to the television while playing Mega Man. Then there was Dust From A Thousand Years, who wanted us to join their tour.

Although we considered their options, Shredded Paper has decided to join a hip Milwaukee based group called Blue Plate Special



Shredded Paper made this decision based on common musical influences, particularly this one.


For those who are interested in hearing some of the fledgling work, the band put up about 1/4 of their new album on MySpace.