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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
??!! / Upcoming Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Get Their Own Flavor of Ice Cream
Posted by Megan Seling on Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band are always looking for creative ways to promote themselves—weird videos, handmade CD cozies, and now they've partnered with Molly Moons and created their own flavor of ice cream. Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band Ice Cream is "coconut ice cream wtih chocolate chunks and huckleberry sauce." It sounds awesome.
They'll be guest-scoopers at Molly Moon's in Wallingford on Thursday, March 5th at 6 pm. Their CD release show is at Neumo's the following night with Say Hi and Visqueen.
(If the coconut/huckleberry combo isn't you're thing, try MM's strawberry ice cream with ribbons of balsamic vinegar reduction. It's strangely delicious!)
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hey Sam Rousso works there. And my 15 year old sister hates that place.Thereby, it must be a shitty band.
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I saw that band open for DeVotchKa. I heard good things and went in looking forward to a chance to see them, mind you. Oy fawking vey. It was the most aggressively boring thing I have ever seen.
"Here's the plan gang - let's be blatantly, obviously derivative of a whole bunch of indie bands from the last 5 years, BUT - and here's what will set us apart - let's systematically eliminate everything that made any of those bands interesting. You know, like hooks or memorable melodies."
Plus, they have the most blatant use of "Cute girl who apparently doesn't play an instrument or sing very much, but we'll put her on stage because, hey, who doesn't like a cute girl in a band? She can bang an un-miked stick with bells on it on the ground or something and headbang." Which offends me the most because it gives a bad name to female musicians who actually, you know, do something in a band.
They are a marketing plan with no music to back it up. Not that that's all that unusual around here, mind you, but they have somehow managed to succeed in getting buzz as a result.
Anyway, good for them for getting their own ice cream, I think more bands should do goofy stuff like that just for the fun of it, but christ, I'd rather it was a band that was actually worth listening to.
"Here's the plan gang - let's be blatantly, obviously derivative of a whole bunch of indie bands from the last 5 years, BUT - and here's what will set us apart - let's systematically eliminate everything that made any of those bands interesting. You know, like hooks or memorable melodies."
Plus, they have the most blatant use of "Cute girl who apparently doesn't play an instrument or sing very much, but we'll put her on stage because, hey, who doesn't like a cute girl in a band? She can bang an un-miked stick with bells on it on the ground or something and headbang." Which offends me the most because it gives a bad name to female musicians who actually, you know, do something in a band.
They are a marketing plan with no music to back it up. Not that that's all that unusual around here, mind you, but they have somehow managed to succeed in getting buzz as a result.
Anyway, good for them for getting their own ice cream, I think more bands should do goofy stuff like that just for the fun of it, but christ, I'd rather it was a band that was actually worth listening to.
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Sam Rousso is probably the nicest person in seattle. i go to molly moon just to see his smiling face.
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oh, he's nice. cool. i guess we have to pretend to like his music. fuck that. this group sucks ass, and their only talent is self-promotion. make way for the new lashes!
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Sam Rousso serves the ice cream; he doesn't play in MSHVB.
He is, however, totally "the new lashes!"
He is, however, totally "the new lashes!"
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Ha! Having Andrew Matson call me an asshole leaves me feeling thoroughly vindicated and chipper for the rest of the day.
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@3:
yes, yes and more yes.
i used to work with that girl and she is just about the most air headed person i have ever met. it DISGUSTS me that their self promotional skills have gotten them a full set of shows lined up, including Sasquatch and SXSW because they sound like any other fucking seattle indie band. as a female musician, it just pisses me off that i am not a cute bubbly christ hugging ditz face because maybe more people would come to my shows.
yes, yes and more yes.
i used to work with that girl and she is just about the most air headed person i have ever met. it DISGUSTS me that their self promotional skills have gotten them a full set of shows lined up, including Sasquatch and SXSW because they sound like any other fucking seattle indie band. as a female musician, it just pisses me off that i am not a cute bubbly christ hugging ditz face because maybe more people would come to my shows.
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I predict someone coming on here and finger-wagging at all the people who don't like MSHVM for being "haters" in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
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