Our Next Show: Thursday, June 24 at the Crystal Corner in Madison from 9:30pm to 12:30.
Our second album, "Impossible Things," is now available for purchase on this site as aCD or as mp3s.
You can also order at CDBaby.com or get mp3s off of iTunes or at Amazon.
Impossible Things is 14 gripping tunes that range from breezy to super dark, with layers and layers of guitars, shimmering harmonies, and a pretty potent overall kick. You are absolutely going to like this album. If you choose a purchase option involving mp3s, just be patient; we'll e-mail you how to get them within the day of your order. (It'll take some time before the album is on iTunes, and the mp3s posted here are higher resolution than you'll get from there anyway.) Read the album review at maximumink.com.
Listen to some tracks now:
The Answer Matt's poptastic pessimism
Find You Out Mark gets spooky and slightly Latin.
Honest Judge A bombastic tune from Nate.
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You can also still buy our first CD: "The Easy Thing." With 13 songs, great liner art and other goodies. Cost: $15 including shipping, which includes electronic download as soon as we read your e-mail. It's $9 for just the mp3s.
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.
Here's a nice review of the album on "Bill's Music Forum."
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Tracks from "The Easy Thing"
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 Easy Thing.
Check out Mark's music blog, unveiling original tunes every week for the frist half 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.)
Some Info on the Band
The band is Matt Ackerman and Mark Lint, playing guitar and bass respectively and splitting the singing songwriting duties, and Nate Pinney (who appears in the first photo on this page, not the one 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, and drummer Julian Salgado Laredo was added the following August.
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, recently also of Madison's Ghost Town Council. Nate adds some more ROCK energy to the band as well as a third vocal and songwriting chops. This new lineup recorded New People's second album "Impossible Things" from December 2009 through November 2010, with mixing and mastering running into early 2011.
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, at Glass Nickel Pizza, the High Noon Saloon, Alchemy, the Frequency, Mother Fool's, and the Club Tavern in Middleton, as well as for two years at Brat Fest.. We've played shows with the Gomers, Anna Wang & the Oh Boys, A Minute Jack Forum, Two Bird Rock, Optometri, the Bar Code, Vanessa Tortolano, Paul Mitch, The Type, Tangy, Brian Daly from Sunshine for the Blind, and others. If you want to hear and read more about the ramp-up for this band back in 2006, check this page.
For more songs and other things by Mark Lint, start here.