PR Department is an experimental lush-grindcore band originally from the stormy shores of Cape Horn (but have since relocated to dismal Vancouver, WA. The humidity is excellent for Fundip's vocal cords). The band consists of Zacharys combHol, Fundip Camp and Noah Napalm, and they are famous for turning EMI down cold for a ten-album deal in 2005, opting for limited edition sharpied CD-R demos. "They're just so much closer to our fanbase. It's really all about the fans," said Zachary in a recent interview with NME.
Origins of the Band
The circumstances under which the three members of your favorite band met and made it the supergroup that it is are quite spectacular. Once the three greatest producers in the music industry, whose clients included Death Cab for Cutie, Phish, Pig Destroyer and A-Kon, our heroes shed their illustrious titles for a slice of punk rock anonymity. Of course, who could have expected such a rise to stardom? "We didn't sell out! Since when does being insanely popular, getting veggie trays and only blue m&m's, and tons of women mean selling out!?!" exclaimed Fundip Camp to regular listener and hip-hop starlet One-Take Bowers.
Fundip sat down with AP recently to level with "the kids" about PR Department's political stance. "We heard that political bands were putting their rejected songs on various fundraising compilations, so we decided to try our hand as well. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any organizations putting out punk rock comps that simultaneously endorsed a return to feudalism and turning Texas into a Penal Colony."
Plans for the future? PR Department has so many options that they have their hands full just deciding. Offered a headlining spot on the latest Warped Tour, they declined, citing "religious reasons." "It wasn't so much 'religious reasons' as just not wanting to get very very sick," offered Fundip in the AP interview. Instead, the band has opted to hunker down for about eight months recording their latest album. "The album's title is going to be longer than this sentence, each song will have a parenthesis-cloaked phrase following an already-indulgent title, and it will be more hyped than Refused's "The Shape of Punk to Come" and all of Radiohead's albums combined," said Fundip.
The album is going to be recorded in the home studio of the elusive Noah Napalm, using highest-quality Tascam 4-track cassette. "We're really going for the old school sound," said Zachary, "but we aren't afraid to get indulgent. Half of our recording budget went towards veggie trays, after all. And we still bought about fifteen microphones!" When asked to comment on his recording practices, Noah stuck out his tongue.
This is going to an amazing show and one our last before we hiberanate to to make the next record a full length we will be playing from at this show. PLease come and hang out with us.
After the bands are finished and the sun goes down - we're projecting Psycho Beach Party in the backyard: Big screen drive-in stylee. The campfire will be going all night with smores galore. this is a campover so bring a sleeping bag, everybody is welcome to stay.
We are playing the Satyricon again on April 9th at 8:00 PM with The PLank Scale, Moses Smell the Roses, Colt Vista and You.May.Die.In.The.Desert. We really need to sell tix (THEY ARE ONLY $7.00, cheaper than door price) to this show to help out our standing with the club and keep our relationship flowing. We have some more new material to debut and a new EP on sale. So, please pick up a pair tix, we will even deliver them, just call 503-490-2608 and ask for Chris and I will bring them by. thanks so much.
so we're playing a show with you guys at the coolest venue Vancouver has to offer on the 26th of March. HELLZ YAH!! Pitols was amazing. The mosh pit is in a half pipe so you can run up the walls and jump into the mosh pit whenever. Its gonna be rad.
