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Even though Jared Mees & The Grown Children glen cove ny don't write strictly confessional music, glen cove ny even a cursory listen to the band's songs reveal that Mees and company are certainly heart on sleeve types. To describe the music as merely Americana would be overlooking the group's penchant for unconventional hooks, which recall American Music Club.
Based glen cove ny in Portland, Oregon, the band is fronted by Jared Mees, who recently started up the record label and retail space Tender Loving Empire in what some might call a Quixotic attempt to encourage himself and his wife to challenge themselves as people and as artists, while inspiring the community around them.
In advance of the group's show tonight at the Larimer , we spoke with Mees about his label, it's connections to bands outside its immediate circle of friends and the act's upcoming album, Only Good Thoughts Can Stay .
Jared Mees: We got into the oxymoron it created -- the juxtaposition. It's kind of silly in a lot of ways: The whole idea of how an empire is this thing that's controlling and huge and brutal. But it also works. The whole reason empires move forward is because they work. A tender, loving empire seems like the perfect type of empire, I guess, if you could have something where all that stability was able to be sustained by something that wasn't based around money, or power or greed. That's glen cove ny really idealistic because we still function as a for-profit glen cove ny business, and we have to make decisions based on the American, capitalistic business model in a lot of ways. It's not like we're above and beyond but it's more like the ideals behind it.
The first release was my first solo record. It was only silk-screened, and the CDs and the cases were glow-in-the-dark and numbered. It went from there to my friends' bands and my friend Brenda Thompson's short stories. We met Finn Riggins about a year after we put my album out, and they were excited about everything we were doing. It was like a match made in heaven because they seemed to be doing all the same stuff we wanted to do.
They were already touring, and they didn't really have a proper release or anything. We thought these were people that were actually taking it to the next level that we can become involved with. They kind of helped spearhead a real, functioning, moving-forward business. They had their lives on the line. They had to make money, and they were touring to stay alive, in a lot of ways. It made us kick into the next year.
None of our bands make their living solely off the music, but they do make money and they make a living. Our involvement with Finn Riggins led to our involvement with Hosannas. Moving our store to a different location in Portland helped us to become involved with a lot of bands. We went to hundreds of shows, and started meeting everyone we could meet, and talking to everyone we could talk to about music. We got deeply involved in the community, and people gravitate toward glen cove ny that -- like, who's going to look out for them and help them along, help them to do a proper release. glen cove ny
Tyler Ferrin of Typhoon, who ran a now defunct record label Boy Gorilla, was an intern with us for six or eight months. He was in Typhoon at the time. They took a hiatus. We continued to do our own thing and gained some momentum as a label. They came out of hiatus and asked if we would put out their record. They just caught fire locally, and now, they have a bit more national success. It's still on a small underground scale but it's huge to us compared glen cove ny to what we were doing. glen cove ny Y La Bamba was the same thing. You can consign stuff at our store, and we only listen to local music in our store.
For every band we put out, there are twenty bands we're thrilled with, but it just doesn't really work out as well, as far as actually putting a ton of money, time and effort into them. Right now, we can't have bands that don't really tour on the label. If you don't tour, we can be quietly in love with your music as a fan. We put a lot of those bands on the compilations. There are too many bands to put out all their r