Paleface Signs With Avetts’ Label Ramseur

Paleface and Mo be rockin' the roost...

By Blurt Staff

Last December, when Paleface and Mo charmed the bejeezus outta BLURT during an opening set for the Avett Brothers, we knew we would be fans for life. Now comes word that Paleface has inked a deal with North Carolina label Ramseur, longtime home of the Avetts, which plans to release his new album The Show Is On the Road early next year.

You can read our comments at the above link and also check out the goods directly at the official website: www.palefaceonline.com . Meanwhile, below is a capsule history of Paleface handily provided by the label. Enjoy!

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1989 Paleface meets Daniel Johnston. Daniel teaches him how to write songs and Paleface begins to make home tapes, which in the following years will evolve into sought after underground bootlegs.

1990 Roommates and burgeoning songwriters, Paleface and Beck hang out in the Lower East Side, NYC. Danny Fields (Stooges,The Ramones, MC5, The Doors, etc.) discovers him at Lach's Antihoot and signs on as his manager.

1991 Polydor signs Paleface to a major label deal; he writes and records his first album Burn and Rob.

1992 Paleface is excited for his first album tour, but is mismatched with tourmates The Judybats and then The Crash Test Dummies. Not long after, he tours with Billy Bragg and gains his own following laying the foundation for his grass roots fan base. He appears in Rolling Stone and Spin Magazine.

1993 Paleface begins work on his second record, but A & R badgering keeps him awake at night and by the end of ‘93 he gets dropped because the record company doesn't understand the new songs.

1994 He records Generic America produced by Kramer for the indie label Shimmy Disc. With the touch of one finger, Kramer erases the masters. Consequently, the record doesn't come out.

1995 The New York Post does a feature article on Paleface in Lisa Robinson's column. Toward the end of ‘95 he signs to Sire Records. Hanging out behind the bar at Coney Island High, Paleface finds out he's been signed to Sire from Jesse Malin, (D-Generation), who had read it in the paper earlier that day.

1996 Sire releases PF's album, Get Off, about the same time as Beck's Odelay. Sire doesn't want to compete with the marketing and one month later Paleface is dropped.

1997 A bit disillusioned with the music industry, he begins a spring tour with The Breeders and Lutefisk. Rightfully pissed off, they all indulge in too much substance consumption.

While touring near Vegas Paleface gets shakes, Lutefisk breaks up soon after, and The Breeders album gets shelved.

1998 Paleface alters his lifestyle and starts the process of restoring his health and well-being. Paleface also begins a very prolific writing period; he produces and records some of his best songs as lo-fi underground bootlegs.

2000 Paleface meets and becomes friends with a new breed of artists which includes The Moldy Peaches, Langhorne Slim, and Regina Spektor at Lach's Antihoot in NYC and releases his famous underground classic The Multibean Bootleg.

2001 Jason Carmer (The Donnas, Run DMC,) and Arion Salazar (Third Eye Blind) invites Paleface out to San Francisco to make a new record, but the sessions are postponed after the events of September 11th. PF releases another one of his home recordings, The Couch Tape, and sells out his bootlegs at shows.

2002 Paleface forms a new band called "Paleface" with Monkeybone and they gig around New York. Monkeybone is a vehicle for Paleface to showcase the new songs that he's writing faster than the band can learn them. During this period, Paleface plays gigs with The Moldy Peaches and other New York emerging rock bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and is introduced to their audiences.

2003 Along with his re-emerging solo career, PF experiments with the Americana sound and forms a new side project called "Just About To Burn." They release their first record, Produced by Paul Kostabi ("Ena") and the band tours London. The crowds love the new songs and the new sound.

2004 Free Your Mellow is recorded and released as a new Paleface solo record.

2005 Paleface is invited by The Avett Brothers to their mountain recording hideaway to join in the making of Four Thieves Gone. 31 songs are recorded including 5 PF songs from which "Dancin Daze" is chosen for the final release. Later that year The Multi-bean Vol 2 is compiled and released.

2006 "I Just Wanna Play Guitar" is recorded with old friends Momotaro, Julian Summerhill, and Ena. It is released in Germany on the trash/punk rock label Wanker Records. Refurbished Just About To Burn begins recording anew. The band has grown to a four-piece.

2007 Paleface (and Mo)  hit the road and tour all over the US.  They are both featured on The Avett Brothers record Emotionalism (Ramseur), which sells close to 50,000 copies in its first year.

2008 Paleface releases "A Different Story" and continues to tour nationally.

[Photo Credit: Cheater Slick]