User:Menasor2782/Music is the Enemy

Music is the Enemy is a hardcore punk band from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Characterized as an "anti-band" with no official bio, promo photos, or personal identity. The band maintains public anonymity stating that their identities are omitted to protect the innocent. The band doesn't play shows. Instead they protest to inform others on the so called harmful effects of music. Claiming it has ruined their lives and is an addictive plague on society.

Biography
Started in early 2008 by frontman and song writer Miles Bodmer after the break-up of his then band No Party System as a personal project writing and recording music while trying to remain in the Albuquerque local scene playing in other bands. Around the same time, he had met guitarist Alex Hetlinger around the University of New Mexico area, who would later come to play in the band. In September of 2008, Miles met newly-moved Ohioan and drummer Michael Wieclaw on craigslist and began teaching him and Alex the eight then written songs. The three of them would practice and interact over the course of the next year looking for a bass player and second guitar player to fill out the line-up.

For the span of a few months, Eddy, a University of New Mexico music student, played bass. After rehearsing and inviting some people from the Albuquerque scene to watch the band, they began booking shows after someone said, "you guys should just play as a three piece."

First show was June 5, 2009 at the Launchpad in Albuquerque, NM. From then, the band performed as a three piece locally and distributed the recorded demos known as the Fucking Demo. While playing shows, a second guitar player, Chris Gutierrez, rehearsed and did one show with the band and decided it was not for him. In June 2010 long time friend Timmy Plath from the Albuquerque local band Epiphany joined. Also, Karie Morgan, ex-guitar player in Albuquerque local band Scarless, joined. Filling out the line-up for the beginning record cycle of their debut Mr. Murdoch... We're Ready For Our Target Audience.

Recording MMWRFOTA began in June 2010 at Knife City Studios (AKA Dude Sauna Studios) with engineer Mike Day whose works include Fondo, Tenderizer, Sabertooth Cavity, Leeches of Lore, and Retard Slave. The final mix was finished in September, mastered soon after at Ampreon Recorder in Youngstown, OH, pressed and saw an all ages release on September 25, 2010 at The Treehouse house venue in Albuquerque, NM and a 21+ release on October 2, 2010 at Burt's Tiki Lounge. Promotion surrounding the release was prominent with a campaign made with flyers, stickers and newspaper printed posters conveying what was called the "end of music."

Since the release the band has periodically toured the regional Southwest and continued its DIY promotions and sales techniques. The band is mentioned frequently in the Weekly Alibi, Albuquerque's free newspaper. In the December 2010 Issue of Albuquerque the Magazine the band was voted "Best Local Band Headed For Stardom." In April 2011, the Covers EP was released--a three song CD of revamped covers.

As of late, rumors have surfaced that members of the band have become dissonant and irritable to each other over the course of the writing/rehearsing of the new album due out fourth quarter 2011/first quarter 2012. There is speculation of a break-up though the band does not say anything to support or deny it. Another rumor is that with time on the road supporting MMWRFOTA there's been a rift between the members due to insecurities and heightened egos.

Influences
The band publicly states the following as their influences: "Insomnia, caffeine, insomnia induced by caffeine binges cured by caffeine binges, cocaine, not so much the actual stuff just the idea of it, fucking, making love, and spousal abuse, in that order, the mathematics of back alley abortions, pretentious statements like the previous, and the previous, repetition, contradiction, the idea that someone is listening, the idea that no one is listening and possibly not looking which means i can take my pants off, my penis, clowns, make-up, the subtle difference between the two, the women who still don't understand that difference, the women that sleep with me, the women that think they don't sleep with me anymore, my active imagination, the people i don't like but who's jokes i still laugh at, the people i do like who's jokes I've heard before but laugh anyway, people who laugh to much but have little to say, getting the joke, saying i get the joke when I don't, retirement in Cancun with super models champagne and and enough meaningless sex to keep myself entertained during the commercials, knowing where I'm going when i die."

Fucking Demo (2009)
Burnt CD-R passed out and or sold at live performances. CD-R was spray painted and came with a few or all of the tracks listed below. Note that R-demo tracks were recorded by Miles Bodmer in his home studio, and L-demo tracks are practice space room-mic one-takes.

Mr. Murdoch, We're Ready For Our Target Audience (2010)
Released September 25, 2011 on SickSickSick Distro is an 11 track manifesto calling out popular culture and the underground scene semantics of Albuquerque, NM.

Covers EP (April 2011)
Released April 9, 2011. What was originally planned to be a split 7" vinyl with another Albuquerque local band, became the Covers EP. The Covers EP is a three track EP of cover songs revamped to fit a more abrasive genre. The songs were orginally done by the following artists: The Mountain Goats, Cee Lo Green, and The Wu Tang Clan.

Second Album
The band stated in a news post that new material is being written for a second full-length album. Word-of-mouth surrounding the project has turned up many different, unconfirmed names for the album. Ones that have surfaced are as follows: Boozewhore, Street Talk, Gutter ball Hopscotch, and We Know You Stuff'em.