A swell band from Madison, WI A swell band from Madison, WI We are now taking orders for the new CD, called "The Easy Thing." It's got 13 songs, including those below, with some great liner art and other goodies. Cost: $15 including shipping ($21 for two copies), which includes electronic download as soon as we read your e-mail. It's $9 if you only want the mp3s and not the actual CD.
If.you live outside the U.S., don't want to use a credit card, want a deal for ordering more than two CDs, if you've ordered and haven't heard back from us within a day or so, or if you just want to get on the mailing list, please contact us. We also sell the CD/mp3s on CDBaby.com, or you can find us on iTunes.
New show: Wed., July 21 at the Annex. 1206 Regent St. 10-11:30pm.
Our last show: Saturday, July 17 at Glass Nickel Pizza, Madison East, 9pm-midnight.
Our last shows before that: Friday, May 28th, first from 11:30am-12:40pm at Brat Fest in Madison (free), then that evening from 6-8pm at the Frequency alternating mini-sets with the Gomers as part of the Slappy Hour Variety Show ($5).
Album News: We have completed basic instrumental tracking for our new album, which will be called Impossible Things. It's got 14 songs, I believe, and we are in the midst of laying down the vocals and guitar overdubs and things. It's maybe too early to announce a release date, but we hope to start mixing some time during the summer. Ken Gerber, who did the art for the first album, will be helping us with this one as well. The songs are all ones that have been in our set for over a year now, with the exception of one newer one written and sung by our new drummer Nate. We're really excited by the tightness of the recordings so far as compared to album #1 and think you're really going to dig this album.
Our last show: Monday, February 22nd, 7pm at The High Noon Saloon. 701 E. Washington Ave., Madison, with Anna Wang & the Oh Boys, A Minute Jack Forum, and Two Bird Rock
Contact us to get on our mailing list to be alerted of future shows and major additions to this site. You can also go friend us on MySpace or or join our Facebook group.
Read our recent profile/review in Madison's Isthmus.
Here's a nice review of the album on "Bill's Music Forum."
Our Press Pack
Free Album Tracks
Love Is the Problem Mark's song for all you single folks out there.
The Last One Matt's anthem about recrimination.
Kite Matt's song about taking someone for granted.
The Easy Thing Mark's song about singing for the ladies.
#1 and 2 were recorded and all were mixed/mastered by Jake Johnson at Paradyme Studios in Madison.
Read lyrics for every song on the album
Check out Mark's new music blog, unveiling original tunes every week of 2010.
"Love Is the Problem" video
A little thing Mark slapped together in 12/08 using pictures graciously (and in most cases willingly) donated by his friends.
(Click the "HQ" button here if your connection is good to see it in high quality.)
The band is Matt Ackerman and Mark Lint, playing guitar and bass respectively and splitting the singing songwriting duties, and Nate Pinney (not pictured above) playing drums. Mark's fronted lots of bands. Matt currently plays with Blamm-O and used to play in Doll and the Sun Dogs, among others.
Matt and Mark had met back in 2001 when they both worked at Epic Systems and Matt considered joining Madison Lint, but that band was full. That band broke up in 2004, and after some time off, Mark was looking to just play bass with some existing band, while at the same time Matt wanted to try out being a front man and had started to meet up with some members of Blamm-O to create a side project for his own material. Mark was interested in joining, and Matt invited him to contribute his songs as well, and so in spring, 2006, New People was born, but a hunt for a permanent drummer went on for a while before they found Julian Salgado Laredo in August; he had just moved to Madison from Mexico in July.
Julian played with the band for two years and plays all tracks on The Easy Thing. In summer 2009 he decided to pursue other projects, so the band now features additional singer-songwriter-drummer Nate Pinney, of late also of Madison's Ghost Town Council. Nate adds some more ROCK energy to the band and is working out splendidly. This new band has learned all the songs for album #2 and began recording in December.
What kind of music do we play? Oh, just listen to the sound files above. We're aiming for direct rock/pop here with nice harmonies over a sort of a grunge base, but we've got wide tastes, and the music will inevitably reflect that.
Where do we play? New People have been playing shows in the Madison area since Spring, 2007, mostly at Glass Nickel Pizza and Alchemy, but also at the High Noon Saloon, Frequency, Mother Fool's, and the Club Tavern in Middleton. They've played shows with the Gomers, Anna Wang & the Oh Boys, A Minute Jack Forum, and Two Bird Rock, Optometri, the Bar Code, Vanessa Tortolano, Paul Mitch, The Type, Tangy, and others.
If you want to hear and read more about the ramp-up for this band, check this page.
For more songs and other things by Mark Lint, start here.