Children's Masterpiece Theatre is an alternative rock band from Chicago, IL. After nearly seven
years of self-produced and distributed CD's, CMT released their third full-length album on Tyranny Belle Records on September 27th, 2007.
Children's Masterpiece Theatre started out as a one-man studio project, went through a number of line-up changes over the years and is currently a four-piece band featuring Gerald Good on drums, Timothy O'Connell on guitars/vocals, Peter Walsh on bass and Nate Winter on synth.
The band's most recent material sounds like a cross between Cursive and Chemlab or Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. Children's Masterpiece Theatre's unusual sound is characterized by aggressive drums and thick bass at the rear, O'Connell's ragged howl at the front and a melody section in the middle that sounds like a fistfight between a solid-state synthesizer and a classic Fender.
Children's Masterpiece Theatre started out as a one-man studio project, went through a number of line-up changes over the years and is currently a four-piece band featuring Gerald Good on drums, Timothy O'Connell on guitars/vocals, Peter Walsh on bass and Nate Winter on synth.
The band's most recent material sounds like a cross between Cursive and Chemlab or Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. Children's Masterpiece Theatre's unusual sound is characterized by aggressive drums and thick bass at the rear, O'Connell's ragged howl at the front and a melody section in the middle that sounds like a fistfight between a solid-state synthesizer and a classic Fender.
NEWS AND UPDATES:
The Nate Winter Holiday Song
Nate Winter | November 26, 2008
Nate here.
Pursuant to my then-idle threat of becoming CMT's primary songwriter on Sept. 22, I'm actually working on a holiday song. It will be included on the Jingle Belles Vol. 2 holiday collection.
It's not done yet, but it's shaping up nicely. It's slow. Acoustic. Homocide-inducing. Eye-gouge-friendly. No title just yet. Musically, it's a series of uber-minor open chords. A few lyrics, but mostly heavy breathing and gasping for air.
Okay, there are a few working titles:
* Holidays On Ice (Kiss My White Ass, David Sedaris)
* Malaise, Ennui, C'est La Vie (Kiss My White, French-Speaking Ass, David Sedaris)
* Noel (Fuck You, Liam Gallagher)
* Great Winter (Hats Off to You, Nate Winter)
* Old Man Winter (Pants Off to You, Future Me)
I'll keep you all updated as this song progresses.
Okay, fuck this. Actually... there is no song. I made all that shit up. I just needed to replace that God-awful last post. It is, like me, a touch out-dated.
Tim's back in DC this week. Without me. Sigh. So I'm dealing with that. Guh. Looks like I have some material for that depressing holiday song after all. whew. lucky me.
fate's rosie-cheeked, many-strings-attached marionette puppet,
Nate
Pursuant to my then-idle threat of becoming CMT's primary songwriter on Sept. 22, I'm actually working on a holiday song. It will be included on the Jingle Belles Vol. 2 holiday collection.
It's not done yet, but it's shaping up nicely. It's slow. Acoustic. Homocide-inducing. Eye-gouge-friendly. No title just yet. Musically, it's a series of uber-minor open chords. A few lyrics, but mostly heavy breathing and gasping for air.
Okay, there are a few working titles:
* Holidays On Ice (Kiss My White Ass, David Sedaris)
* Malaise, Ennui, C'est La Vie (Kiss My White, French-Speaking Ass, David Sedaris)
* Noel (Fuck You, Liam Gallagher)
* Great Winter (Hats Off to You, Nate Winter)
* Old Man Winter (Pants Off to You, Future Me)
I'll keep you all updated as this song progresses.
Okay, fuck this. Actually... there is no song. I made all that shit up. I just needed to replace that God-awful last post. It is, like me, a touch out-dated.
Tim's back in DC this week. Without me. Sigh. So I'm dealing with that. Guh. Looks like I have some material for that depressing holiday song after all. whew. lucky me.
fate's rosie-cheeked, many-strings-attached marionette puppet,
Nate
