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Hello Friends, I hope you all are well. This is the space where I’m suppose to write something cute and you’re suppose to learn everything you need to know about After Edmund. Honestly, none of us are that hip to gross self-promotion or detailed facts about our personal lives being used to sell you music. But people love a story (just look at reality tv; And who hasn’t heard their maternal ancestry say “I’ve just got to get my afternoon stories”), so I’m inclined to give you one.

After Edmund are a band. Shocking, I know. More on the “is vs. are” argument later. We released our national debut album entitled Hello on Slanted Records (released 2/26/08). We are quite happy to be a signed band. After all, that’s what so many people dream of being. With this said, I assure you that there’s a lot more to life than a signature licensing the collective creativity of five guys. You see, all of us, known as the singular entity After Edmund, think music, creativity, work, play, marriage, school, birth, life, and death are just part of our having a relationship with our Creator. Everything we do is ultimately to show love for/to God. (That’s Jesus the Jewish rabbi from 0 A.D. for those of you keeping score). All of our lives have been radically changed by the guy we pray to. Naturally, this affects everything we do. And that’s a good thing. We don’t necessarily condone the actions of everyone who calls themselves Christians. A lot of what people do in the name of Christ has nothing to do with Jesus or what he calls us to do. And that makes Jesus look bad. We don’t want to be those kind of people. Loving Jesus is all about receiving God's gift of grace and freedom and genuinely caring for and sharing Christ’s good news with everyone around us. If you have questions about this stuff, feel free to ask us about it. You can send us a myspace message and we will get with you asap.

More about the band: We’re just a bunch of goofballs. We really don’t take ourselves or much of anything seriously. For examples of this checkout our video blogs at youtube.com/afteredmund … we also think it’s hilarious to provoke random people into an argument on the plurality of the band name After Edmund. This is the famed is vs. are I spoke of earlier. If you don’t care then you’re with us, but you’d be surprised how many people have strong feelings on the subject. And if you ask us how long we’ve been together and we answer in some ridiculous number of months, don’t be alarmed. Just divide by 12 to get it in an intelligible format. Oh, and we’re considering taking stage names and we’re open to suggestions. Just send us a message. Right now we’re thinking: Newton’s Nemesis, Mr. DJ Icedream, Big Dragon, they call me Hawkeye, and Brittlenickel. (The preceding idea is actually just a test to see if anyone reads this thing).

More about our music: We write and record music that we think you’ll like. We don’t strive to sound like anyone or any genre (though some people will strongly disagree with both the former and latter statements). You are free to pigeon hole us however you like, but we think the best description of our music can be found by clicking the play button on this page. We encourage you to tell your friends whatever’s necessary get them to go buy our music. Even if you need to do personal favors for them like mow their grass or baby-sit their children, it is but a little sacrifice to encourage such good behavior. And we appreciate it.

If you’re still reading this then I apologize for being long winded, and I hope you find something more productive to do with the next 10 minutes of your life. If you skipped to the end without reading the whole write up then do yourself a favor and stop skipping to the end of novels to find out what happens. It can’t be healthy, and you know they’re going to start asking if you exhibit that type of behavior in those psychoanalysis questions on wal-mart job applications. I hope you enjoy letting us into your world. We’re glad to be here. Please come sing hello, hello to us at a show sometime. It’ll be good to have you close.
Enjoy your day,
The After Edmunds