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    <description>Suppose you're a little kid on the island of Guam – that's right, Guam. And suppose you're in your room with a beat up old acoustic guitar and some bongos your parents gave you, practicing cha-cha and jitterbug music with your cousins because that's all anybody ever showed you how to do. And suppose you glance up at your Ramones poster and have a vision of yourself on stage with long hair and sunglasses, blasting a Les Paul through a rumbling Marshall stack, gaping at the seething audience in front you – elbows spinning in circles, fists punching the air, and kids flopping around like crash test dummies, all to the beat of three beautiful power chords. And suppose at that moment you decide that you want to someday, somehow, realize that rock n' roll vision -- even though you're just a kid playing cha-cha and jitterbug music and living on the tiny tourist-driven island of Guam which rarely sees mainstream touring acts, probably only has a couple rock clubs on the whole chunk of land, has an entire population smaller than that of an urban city, and which most Americans probably couldn't even find on a map.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You'd probably think, Okay, there's no way I'll ever realize my rock n' roll vision. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you're not any of the five members of Mud. If you were, you'd have figured out a way to migrate thousands of miles across the ocean to San Francisco, build up a large enough fan base to pack venues like Slim's and Bottom of the Hill, perform with noted local acts like The Matches, the Lovemakers and The Dodos, land spots at SXSW, the CMJ Music Marathon and the Vans Warped Tour, and join forces with the Bay Area's most promising young label, Talking House Records. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flash forward to 2008, and Mud has released their first full-length, Yearbook. It's an album that fuses the accessibility of punk with the acumen of progressive and indie, and does it all with an I-just-wanna-rock attitude.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pages turn rapidly on Yearbook, some of them in full color, others in eerie black and white. On tracks like "Should've Known" and "Tomorrow," vocalist Nikki Aclaro sings clever pop musings on love and loss. At the opposite end of the spectrum are tracks like "Psycho," a clash of Alan Kao's heavy guitar against a full-on brass-and-string arrangement -- an explosive cinematic mixture of film noir and spy movie. Meanwhile, bassist Ralph Blas, keyboardist Aris Nicholas and drummer Jared Cruz crash and rumble in a tight rhythm section. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last year, Mud returned to Guam to do a small tour and inspire a new generation of island kids who just wanna rock. Blas says the cha-cha and jitterbug music he played on the island as a kid continues to influence Mud. "I still feed off of that stuff – rhythmic, groove-oriented music," he says.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 17:43:23 -0000</pubDate>
      <title>Careless</title>
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      <description>&lt;br /&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would like to thank everyone that has seen our new DIY music video and provide feedback. Please continue to send the video link to all your&lt;br /&gt;friends and family. We are extremely grateful for all your support. We love you Guam !! We promise to write back to all of you as soon as we can. It seems we are getting a lot of the same questions in the your emails so I'll try to give you the answers to the most popular.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Did the video really take only 7 days to make? Yes it did. Due to a late start,we had only 7 days to submit the video for Locus at Keanry Street Workshop and San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival's DO IT YOURSELF MUSIC VIDEO CONTEST. We shot the video in 2 days. 1 day to shoot the whole band playing together and another day just to shoot all of Nikki's bed room scenes;-) and 5 days to edit. Our director Matthew Abaya and assistant director Angelo Ibanez were amazing! Talk about super DIY film makers, they constantly thought outside of the box and made best of the time,money and resources we had. FYI, we were close to missing the deadline! For our next video, we're spending a little bit more time ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Did the video cost only $500? We set a budget for $500 from the start of the project, we had a make up person that cost $50, props was $40, Matthew's parking ticket was $50, light rental was maybe $100 and we gave the tint shop where we shot the video $200 and I think we spend the rest of the money buying food ( breakfast and lunch) for the band and a crew of 4. The crew didn't really eat much,I think we ate most of the food and in true DIY spirit ,we even took home the left overs;-) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) What is the prize for winning the diy music video contest? If our diy music video gets the most views, our director Matthew Abaya and assistant director Angelo Ibanez will be showing "Careless" at the 2009 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. For all you musicians out there,it's like playing SXSW or CMJ. It means a lot. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Is Nikki single? Come on guys !! Ask her yourself !! I heard she is but don't tell her I told you ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Is Matthew Abaya and Angelo Ibanez available to shoot my band's video? You can google them and find tons of stuff they worked on. Here are some links you can use to get in touch with them. Ask them yourself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Matthew Abaya&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/24eTJiGUf_" title="http://www.idontcarefilms.com"&gt;http://www.idontcarefilms.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/14u_jGUf_" title="http://www.youtube.com/user/idontcareproductions"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/idontcareproductions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/24iW_kGUf_" title="http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Abaya/527795428"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/people/Matthew-Abaya/527795428&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/14b2lGUf_" title="http://www.myspace.com/misterabya"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/misterabya&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Angelo Ibanez&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/14u_mGUf_" title="http://www.youtube.com/user/tuci2"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/tuci2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/14b2nGUf_" title="http://www.myspace.com/angeloibanez"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/angeloibanez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/24iW_oGUf_" title="http://www.facebook.com/people/Angelo-Ibanez/700745463"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/people/Angelo-Ibanez/700745463&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well,I hope this answers some of your questions in regards to our DIY music video. Please keep watching the video and try to find the white rabbit. Let me know when you find it !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a link to our DIY music video "Careless". Don't forget to send the link to your friends and find the white rabbit !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/24fTJpGUf_" title="http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/videos/single?v=595bed7a371e553b4b6590f9d780898b"&gt;http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/videos/single?v=595bed7a371e553b4b6590f9d780898b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;xoxo,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mud&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/24iW_qGUf_" title="http://www.facebook.com/pages/mud/21086765081"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/pages/mud/21086765081&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/14b2rGUf_" title="http://www.myspace.com/mudtheband"&gt;http://www.myspace.com/mudtheband&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/mud"&gt;http://www.imeem.com/mud&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://links.imeem.com/24Rd0sGUf_" title="http://www.mudsf.com"&gt;http://www.mudsf.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/careless" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/angelo" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/671" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/ibanez" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/abaya" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/guam" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/imeem" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/house" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/matthew" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/tag/live105" rel="tag"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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      <link>http://www.imeem.com/mud/blogs/2009/02/26/Mln15Qeu/mud-careless-music-video</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:21:32 -0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:13:02 -0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:44:03 -0000</pubDate>
      <title>Tomorrow by Mud</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:42:48 -0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:42:41 -0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:41:39 -0000</pubDate>
      <title>Sticky by Mud</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:41:36 -0000</pubDate>
      <title>Fallen by Mud</title>
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