Mike Kinsella

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Mike Kinsella May 2007
Mike Kinsella May 2007

Mike Kinsella (born March 4, 1977) is one of three Kinsellas (brother Tim Kinsella and cousin Nate Kinsella) involved in many Illinois-based bands (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, The One Up Downstairs, American Football, and Owen). He was first recognized in the music scene in Cap'n Jazz[1] formed by his brother Tim in 1989 while at the age of 12. In 2001 Mike began his current solo project Owen in which he performs Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards, loops, etc. [2] Mike is also in a band with his wife called The Shirts and Skins.

Mike continues to play with Joan of Arc, and perform as Owen.

Many of Mike's album's including "Owen" and "No Good For No One Now" were recorded in his mothers home[3]

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[edit] Literary References

Mike Kinsella tends to reference literature often in his writing.

  • In American Football's "Letters and Packages", he references For Esmé with Love and Squalor, a J. D. Salinger short story.
  • In the Owen album title, "No Good For No One Now", he is probably making a reference to a line from Gazebo, a Raymond Carver short story.
  • Likewise, In Owen's "Gazebo" he suggests he is reading Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and makes another reference to the short story Gazebo, with both the story and the song ending in the line "In this too, she was right".
  • In Owen's "Playing Possum For A Peek", the line "a local pharmacist and his wife" comes from The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera. The line is about how one of the characters, Tereza, goes to see a performance by a string quartet. "The hall was nearly empty. The only other people in the audience were the local pharmacist and his wife. And although the quartet of musicians on stage faced only a trio of spectators down below, they were kind enough not to cancel the concert, and gave a private per­formance of the last three Beethoven quartets."
  • In Owen's "The Sad Waltzes of Pietro Crespi", he references Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
  • In Owen's "Good Friends, Bad Habits," he references Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway.

[edit] Discography

Year Title Band Label Format Additional Information
1994 Burritos...(AKA: Shmap’n Shmazz) Cap'n Jazz Man With Gun Records LP/CD Drums/Vocals
1997 A Portable Model of... Joan of Arc Jade Tree Records LP/CD Drums
1998 Analphabetapolothology Cap'n Jazz Jade Tree Records 2xCD Cap'n Jazz Anthology. Drums/Vocals
1998 Self Titled EP American Football Polyvinyl Records EP/CD Guitar/Vocals
1999 American Football American Football Polyvinyl Records LP/CD Guitar/Vocals
1999 Live in Chicago Joan of Arc Jade Tree Records LP/CD Drums, not a live album.
2000 Gap Joan of Arc Jade Tree Records LP/CD Drums
2000 The Jordan Marx EP Dantom Sucks Theory Unknown EP/CD Listed as playing "Sexy"
2001 Owls Owls Jade Tree Records LP/CD Drums
2001 Owen Owen Polyvinyl Records CD Guitar/Vocals
2002 Heart's Desire Niamh Parsons Green Linnet CD Harmonica
2002 No Good For No One Now Owen Polyvinyl Records CD Guitar/Vocals
2002 Open Ground Kyle Fischer Polyvinyl Records CD Drums
2003 Best of Altan The Songs Altan Green Linnet CD Harmonica
2003 In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust Joan of Arc Perishable Records CD Bass, Percussion, Drums
2003 So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness Joan of Arc Jade Tree Records CD Bass, Drums
2004 Anyone in Love With You (Already Knows) Rainer Maria Polyvinyl Records CD Tambourine
2004 The Rutabega/Owen Split EP Owen Polyvinyl Records CD Guitar/Vocals
2004 Total Eclipse of the Heart The Love of Everything Record Label Records CD Drums
2004 The EP Owen Polyvinyl Records CD Guitar/Vocals
2004 Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain Joan of Arc Polyvinyl Records CD Drums
2005 I Do Perceive Owen Polyvinyl Records CD Guitar/Vocals
2005 Association of Utopian Hologram Swallowers Owen Polyvinyl Records CD Guitar/Vocals
2005 Presents Guitar Duets Joan of Arc Record Label Records CD Guitar
2006 At Home With Owen Owen Polyvinyl Records CD Guitar/Piano/Vocals
2007 Many Times I've Mistaken Joan of Arc Polyvinyl Records EP/CD Guitar
2007 Owen/The City on Film Split 7" Owen Red Cars Go Faster 7" vinyl Guitar/Piano/Organ/Vocals
2008 Boo Human Joan of Arc Polyvinyl Records LP/CD Drums


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[edit] References

  1. ^ Jade Tree | Press
  2. ^ https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/bands/band_info.asp?bandID=10
  3. ^ https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/bands/band_info.asp?bandID=10
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