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Hey folks, this is Paul from Karate High School.

What you're about to read is what bands call a "bio," a one-page sales pitch that will typically feed you a bunch of nonsense about how cool and hip we are. If we're lucky, we'll come across as legitimate music artists, and you'll be enticed to either purchase our music and/or come see us perform live. Normally, I would write this pitch in the typical third-person format, filling the page with trite phrases such as, "Karate High School's new album will astound you with it's Sasquatch-sized melodies and war-starting, crushing guitars! All the trendy zines say that if you buy it, your Cool-O-Meter will be raised 13 points, and you will instantly become 46% more attractive to the opposite sex!""

Oh, the joys of bullshit hyperbole.

I'm going to keep it simple this time around, and start with a few facts: Karate High School is a rock band from the San Francisco Bay Area. We decided to take this music thing seriously in 2004, and released two records called Arcade Rock and The League Of Tomorrow through a label that nobody has ever heard of. We toured the country in the filthiest van ever many times over, and played both heartbreakingly terrible and massively inspiring shows. Ray spent years cold-calling everyone in the music industry, begging them to listen to an unknown band with a silly name. The result? A collective shrug of the shoulders and an email inbox and voicemail full of No New Messages. At some point in a band’s life, you have to make a decision to either A) get a real job so you can pay your cell phone bill, or B) chase your dreams. For me, the answer was simple: chase your dreams. Naïve? Probably. Exciting? Hell yes. Fortunately, in 2008, we met a group of people that are just as passionate about music as we are: Alex and crew at Eyeball Records, and Jesse and Black at Piermont Management. We signed a deal with Eyeball in late '08, and the world has never been the same. Okay, the world has been exactly the same. There are just four dudes that are, like, way happier.[Continue reading]