Jared Mees & The Grown Children's Blog
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Summer Tour Blog at www.localcut.com
Hey yall...
just wanted to let you know you can find our of the wall summer tour blog at www.localcut.com the online music blog run by willamette week. There are about 6 entries up right now with exclusive photos and videos of our 09 summer tour through the west...
you are special
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New Reviews of Tallest Building in Hell
Our song "Tallest Building in Hell" is on the new PDX POP NOW 2009 compilation. You can get it at www.pdxpopnow.com its really really good! Our fave song is the Breakfast Mountain track!
Anywho, so, but the PDX POP NOW peeps used Tallest Building in Hell as a promotional track and so its coming up on tons of blogs and whatnot...check these out!
Willamette Week -- http://blogs.wweek.com/music/2009/06/03/jared-mees-the-grown-children-the-tallest-building-in-hell-2009-pdx-pop-now-complilation/
This is a Super Duper nice one...kinda cant believe how nice it is...in fact, here it is in its entirety.
In less than two weeks, my brother is graduating from college. It is, to put it blunty, not really the best time to go from the comforting bubble of collegiate life to the Real World. My best advice to him? Hang in there, buddy. Or at least listen to Jared Mees tell you that everything will be fine.More than just about any song I’ve heard the past few years, “The Tallest Building in Hell” makes me feel okay about my life. It’s a song about hope, about trudging through the shit to make it, inevitably, to a better place. In a time when most of my friends have either been laid off, or are unsure about their future or their career or just don’t know what the hell they want to do with their lives, the repeated refrain of “patience pays off finally” hits you like a Dwight Howard elbow to the throat. It’s a gut check, for sure, but in the best way possible. Hey! Things will work out! Just don’t mess with me!:“And it’s hard to believe/ When you’re up so late at night/ And it’s hard to believe when you do nothing wrong/ and it’s hard to believe when you’re so comfortable/ Moving so fast, breathing so slow.”Of course, part of the joy in Mees’ songwriting is its communal aspect; and really, no matter how many times you listen to “The Tallest Building in Hell” at home or read the lyrics I have printed here, nothing compares to the power of the song as a sing-along, with a whole room of people belting out words that surely ring true. The PDX Pop Now! festival is all about community, about bringing together a diverse group of music and people for one kick ass weekend. I can’t think of a better theme song.
Basement Of Our Brain - http://www.basementofourbrain.com/
Crappy Indie Music -- The Blog! - http://crappyindiemusic.blogspot.com/
Portland Mercury http://endhits.portlandmercury.com/endhits/archives/2009/06/03/your-daily-pdx-pop-now-song-day-two
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JM+GC in Willamette Week top 10 new bands...just barely
We made it...just barely
http://www.wweek.com/editorial/3526/12508/
10. Jared Mees and the Grown Children(28 Points)
Who: Jared Mees, Megan Speer, Aaron Sweet, Sean McCormick, Sam Cooper, Josiah Payne, Megan Cronin
Formed: 2007
Sounds Like: All your best friends getting drunk, wordy and melodic together...
Four days after the Grown Children’s tour van was stolen from the parking lot behind Jared Mees’ Northwest Portland screenprinting store, Tender Loving Empire, police recovered James Brown (“the hardest-working van in show business”) six blocks away, out of gas. Inside the 1982 Ford Club Wagon was a glut of presumably stolen goods—including three pairs of khaki slacks and an Arabic-English dictionary—that Mees threw away, and one item he kept: a mix CD titled You Go Girl, Vol. 13. This will be a first-rate addition to the band’s summer tour, which is highlighted by a Fourth of July show at Mees’ high-school reunion in Pagosa Springs, Colo., but will not include James Brown, who does not offer enough seating for Portland’s most happily inclusive ensemble and its significant others.
The rotating cast of the group—formed in October 2007 by Mees and Megan Spear, a fellow graduate of Christian college Azuza Pacific—is crunchy in two ways: They sound like a fiddle-driven hootenanny with hard-driving riffs. The Grown Children (nearly dubbed “The Neighbors’ Kids” before Spear noticed that was “pretty creepy”) has developed a reputation as a sing-along act: A recent Doug Fir show culminated in a 10-minute rendition of “Let the Sunshine In,” and Mees has composed a specialized birthday song. (“Birthdays, birthdays. Everybody has a birthday. Birthdays, birthdays. [Your name] came out of a vagina.”) Spear loves the group crooning: “It makes me think of youth and watching Disney shows.” Mees affirms: “Mary Poppins and shit.”
You go, girl. AARON MESH.
SEE IT: Jared Mees and the Grown Children play Saturday, May 16, at Backspace. 7 pm. $8. All ages.
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James Brown Found!
He was only away for a few days and only went 6 blocks before he ran out of gas, but in that time, James Brown, our illustrious brown tour van was able to procure the following random items: (i.e. this is what the person who stole JB left in the van)
-1 necklace of "Volcanic amber from timbuktu"
-3 pairs of khaki slacks
-1 Arabic-English Dictionary
-1 Spanish-English Dictionary
-1 Black down vest
-1 scratched up copy of "Knocked Up"
-2 bags of rope
-1 book of photos of someone in the U.S. Navy
-2 random party photos of a half clothed girl
-1 box of "mexican candies"
James you party animal you, never scare us like that again!