A Paper Cup Band
From Minnewiki
It’s ironic that a band with memorable tunes is named after disposable cups – maybe it’s because they are infectious. A Paper Cup Band actually refers to jug band music, but this modern update conceived in 2006 splashes refreshing cup after cup of “bastard folk” tunes. Time to wake up folkies.
If you take a sip of A Paper Cup Band’s debut 2007 concoction, Midwestern Post-Sarcastic (self released Bastard Folk Records), it will taste like Langhorne Slim and The Baptist Generals amid the rolling boil of Milwaukee’s Violent Femmes. Yet, it defies simple comparisons. A Paper Cup Band serves a fizz of pop but it’s more like the spontaneity of a wopituli in a dented trash can; the wide eye frenzy of a caffeinated energy drink; or an exotic mellow herbal tea. There is more in this package than you may initially think and its flavor changes with each layer. It’s best described as the audio version of Willie Wonka’s everlasting gobstopper that changes with each lick in the ear. This wet willie tickles and will either get you dancing in surprise, or you’re sponging it up with the headphones and asking for more.
Midwestern Post Sarcastic beguilingly rocks/folks/punks/raps with acoustic guitar, kitchen implements, a guitar case for bass drum, tambourine, banjo, mandolin, trumpet, and vocal harmonies. The lyrics at times are impressionistic and ambiguous; others are honest observations, self-reflections and pleas; and others, are in your face wry satire and sarcasm. The LPs 21 songs were written and composed by the founder of A Paper Cup Band, Andrew Jansen (a.k.a. Webby Moore). Jansen created the band after a stint with Sleeping In the Aviary, in Madison, Wisconsin.
The band’s three cups travel the Greyhound Bus from their current residence in Minneapolis/St. Paul to their hometowns of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Andrew Jansen, lead vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo; and Kyle Sobcczek, percussion and vocal harmonies) and Lincoln, Nebraska (Brian Bussaird, stand-up bass). They play to enthusiastic crowds in coffee houses and bars throughout the Midwest, and made winter forays to Colorado, Oklahoma, Florida, the Carolinas, the Dakotas, and will travel to any other city comfortably served by the bus line, or any place that a borrowed vehicle will take them. These paper cup minstrels rely on the kindness of other bastard folks looking for a family. Buy their cd, sample tunes on the web, book a show in your city, send the songs over the radio air waves, distribute their cd, attend a concert, and join the legion of real and virtual friends by visiting www.apapercupband.com and www.myspace.com/apapercupband
Now let’s raise our cups high. May the Paper Cup Band be indispensable and have a long life, cheers!
(Bastard Folk Records, March 2007)
Contact: Andrew Jansen, 612-518-9731, andrew@apapercupband.com
'Discography and Recordings'
A Paper Cup Band Midwestern Post-Sarcastic (self released, Bastard Folk Records) 21 tracks at 54 minutes
Andrew Jansen Webby Moore’s Song-A-Day Journal on www.apapercupband.com/songjoural.htm A song recorded each day (almost), postings since 2/7/07 until indefinitely
Moorebeck Stellar - down tight/in-bloom (self released, 2004); selected by cdreviews.com as one the “50 Best Albums of the Year 2004”
Moorebeck Stellar - A Blind Man’s Waltz (self released, 2002) Both of these critically acclaimed LPs are available at: www.moorebeckstellar.com
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