Four things Foot Village want you to do:
1. RECORD MUSIC
Foot Village are recording a new album, Anti-Magic (following-up last year's Friendship Nation -- TMT Review), and they want you to be on it! This raucous, rambunctious, raging bunch of noise-makers are inviting family, friends, and online music and film magazine editors (whoa!) to contribute to the album's final track, "Chicken and Cheese." According to Upset the Rhythm, the track is "a celebration of requited love, a call to arms, an espionage and also an ever evolving loop about the world uniting through music -- hence the inspired idea to throw the song open to everyone."
How can you get involved? Well, the loop starts with the band, and then it continues by getting passed onto YOU. All you have to do is record your own music inspired by this loop and email it off to dbombarc@gmail.com. And if you're apprehensive about the openness of this project, don't fret: you're encouraged to "really go crazy" with your interpretation. "Change it as much as you like, take it to places only you can reach." Here are the lyrics, for your reference: "We write love songs in a secret language that no one can resist"
Due date is Tuesday, January 20, a day after President-elect Obama ramps up the rhetoric. The album will come out later this year on UTR.
2. GET NAKED
If the cover of Friendship Nation didn't already clue you in, Foot Village are absolute PERVS, which is why they are now asking fans to strip off their clothes, do a little dance, and then pose while they take a sexy snapshot of your hot-or-not bod for the album cover. The whole thing is really offensive to me because I look terrible naked, but I'm really eager to see all of your dicks and tits. So, if you live in the LA area and want to do nothing else but strip for some noise-makers on January 17 or 18 (just before Obama ramps up the rhetoric), get in contact with the group via dbombarc@gmail.com and RSVP. Oh, and the band wants you to take test photos and send them to me, too, thanks.
3. WATCH THEM LIVE
Foot Village will play some West Coast shows in February, and they want you to be there -- naked or not:
02.16.09 - Los Angeles, CA - Pehrspace *
02.18.09 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill &
02.19.09 - Portland, OR - Dekum Manor #
02.20.09 - Seattle, WA - Chilladelphia
02.21.09 - Oakland, CA - Heco's
02.22.09 - Davis, CA - House Party $
03.26.09 - Los Angeles, CA - The Smell !
* Puppy Dog, E&E
& The Drums, T.I.T.S., Casey and Brian
# Experimental Dental School, Magic Johnson, Pete Swanson
$ Ghost to Falco, Dead Western
! The Mae Shi, Past Live
4. DOWNLOAD FREE MUSIC
Grace Lee, Brian Miller, and Josh Taylor from Foot Village are set to release their sixth and final album, There it is, The Creeping Moral Decay of the Past Thousand Years, with their other group, Rose For Bohdan (which also features Cole Miller and Nick Murray). But since the album doesn't come out until June on Realicide Youth, they have provided this link, where you can download the entire album for free, in either MP3 or WAV formats ("But I only listen to Real Audio files!"). Okay, sure, the album is free, but please consider donating money (any amount), which you can send via PayPal to -- yep, you guessed it -- dbombarc@gmail.com.
Music clips, naked RSVPs, and money to one email address? Sounds like someone has life figured out.
[Photo: Jan]
