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| Popmatters |
 Never mind that this California ensemble’s main songwriter calls himself Mike TV or that this outfit has had music featured on both Weeds and Grey’s Anatomy. What we have here is a set of seriously smart pop tunes that belie any silliness that might surround Get Set Go. Mike TV has apparently studied at the feet of the masters, although which masters is a bit of a mystery. Unlike numerous new artists that come down the pike each afternoon, TV doesn’t wear his influences so proudly on his sleeve that he forgets to forge his own identity. All of that? A fancy way of saying that this is not a sound-alike band. Oh, sure, the strings that pop up on tunes such as “Racecar” and “Looking East” –– epic by pop standards at five-and-a-half minutes –– will call to mind British bands from days of yore, and the clever (that’s not a slam) lyrics are reminiscent of Fountains of Wayne, say, or Barenaked Ladies. But really, they’re mostly hallmarks of this band. There’s plenty of evidence to the outfit’s real talents and true strengths: the rich arrangements of those aforementioned numbers, the sexual immediacy of the title song, the swirling sense of excitement evident in that piece or the lyrical resignation of “Stone Of Suffering”, the optimistic energy of “We Will Be Stars”, and the sheer beauty of the album’s second epic –– it’s nearly six minutes long –– “Little Lost Bird”. To the credit of TV and Co., the humor here never overrides the music but instead enhances it, the winks and nudges never coming at the expense of serious musical impressiveness. Within all the apparent perfection and exactitude swirling around this affair, there are moments where everything feels a little too just so for rock ‘n’ roll. But there are far worse fates for a rock band to suffer in these trying times. Since when is perfection by any measure an indignity? If Get Set Go is not exactly a household name –– despite, apparently, over a million people having downloaded the outfit’s material –– it may very well become one of those cult touchstone bands, another NRBQ or Young Fresh Fellows for a decade that could sorely use bands of that caliber....full text |
| Kickstarter |
| Get Set Go has always been a band dedicated to our hard-core fans. From the early days of Mike TV's daily MySpace Blogs, to the Living Room Tour where we played in our fans' homes, to the bi-weekly Ustream shows we performed for a large part of 2010 and 2011. You complete us. In a very true and non-cynical way. Otherwise, we'd be making music for ourselves, sitting in our bedrooms, singing songs for our plants and animals. You are the reason we share our music. And it is from your emails, Tweets, messages, texts, phone calls, and conversations on tour that we find the joy in performing that keeps us going. As most of you know, Mike TV is a pretty prolific songwriter, and for every record we record, there are scores of acoustic demos that never see the light of day. More often than not, we give those acoustic demos away to our fans in advance of a new release and often we hear that there are songs that people love that didn't make it on the record. We have launched our own record label, Square Tire Records, and finally intend to take advantage of all the songs we wrote over 2010 and 2011. We are going to be releasing a full-length record, "Fury of Your Lonely Heart," in September, followed by 7 EPs, five songs apiece, over the following months. We also hope to get back out on the road to hang with our old friends and meet many new ones. However, building a studio, recording, mixing, mastering, and manufacturing CDs is a very expensive prospect, and if and when we see a return, it won't be for many, many months. The band has put their heart and soul into the 52 songs we're recording. We've got about 30 of them near completion and we're working away on the remainder. We need help to finance the completion of these songs, to get them into stores, and to get out on the road. That's where you come in. We did something like this 2008 to fund our side project band, I Give Up. Our hard-core fans were wonderful. You gave in small amounts, but those small amounts added up and allowed us to fly up to Missoula, MT and record that album. It still isn't yet in stores, although we have certainly handed off copies to hundreds of fans that donated. We intend to release that record this year on Square Tire as well. As every indie-rock, DIY band will attest, the business of music is no business at all. We do it because we love it. We do it because we love you. And because we feel the love you have for us. I hope you like the things we are offering in return for your donation. You have our love. You have our hearts, furious little things that they are. Thank you for taking the time to read this. With great, steaming piles of gratitude and thanks, Get Set Go...full text |
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