Welcome to The Mathletes Website
The Mathletes are coming out with a new album called Excalibur. It’s a “real” album (not a CD-R or tape or bunch of mp3s), so I’ve been asked by the locals who run Homeskool Records to promote it some. This is part of that.
We’re doing a local record release show on August 13th at Fitzgerald’s I’m hoping will be a big enough thing. I asked lots of my favorite people to play and do “versus” sets; two bands setting up at once and then either trading off songs, collaborating, maybe they’ll actually fistfight but probably not. This practice, the “versus” (or “cockfight” show), has its roots in other things that other people have done. Click here to read more about the show.
Here’s some basic information about The Mathletes, like a press release: it began as a teenage bedroom pop / noise recording project. After a couple years a friend helped me set up a website where I offered a mail-order subscription thing: six albums for twenty-three dollars, mailed out over the course of a year. I did two of these (“The Ninja Death Club”… I was young), and eventually Asaurus Records, the aforementioned CD-R label based out of Michigan (later Athens, GA) offered to put out some stuff. Around then some friends convinced me to start up a live performance-type band; folks came and went and after a few lineups fell apart it turned into a revolving door Guided by Voices / Fall thing, nice fun indie-pop with one guy at the center. Asaurus knocked it off in 2008, and since then I’ve kept putting out limited-release CD-Rs here in Houston, playing shows rarely and recording a ton. We don’t tour and I find promoting myself to be difficult and weird but I’ve been making music for over a decade and probably won’t stop. We have another website now, with a domain name and everything. A steady band, too. The (long-overdue) discography I’m working on is up to 39 separate “proper” albums and EPs, and we may have hit 40 by the time you read this. Aside from music I have led a full and interesting life. I am 27, tall and I did not trust anybody else to write a press release.
Sincerely,
Joe Mathlete
