The Running Scared EP

 The Bomb EP

If Thomas Jefferson were alive today
He'd view record companies with dismay.

If Thomas Paine were here he'd say
Expose the evil of the RIAA.

And if Samuel Adams were to join the fray...
He'd dump the CDs in the Bay.

Say it loud and let 'em know...
The Big Five labels have got to go!

 

(Click to download full lyrics)

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 "In this day and age where email is becoming the norm, these postcards are a revelation made up of equal parts of Karl Marx and Groucho Marx."

 - Bob Burke, Director of Social Sciences and History, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Branch, Baltimore, MD

 

 "Are you tired of hearing news about the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA, hereafter) suing 12-year-old children for downloading music? If so, there is a band that you should check out. Fitehouse"

- Michael J. Puglisi, Editor-in-Chief, The Georgetonian

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Running Scared was released under the Fitehouse General Public Music license. The FGPML is an open source license, meaning that we are encouraging individuals to copy, modify and build upon "Running Scared" by making its "source code" (that is, the raw instrumental and vocal tracks) readily available. The Fitehouse GPML is similar to the Creative Commons License, however the FGPML also requires the musician to make their raw tracks available to other artists.

 

(Click to download the FGPM)

 

To hear Running Scared, go to the music downloads page.

The Bomb: Postcard #5

"Fitehouse gets the ol' school spirit!."

When the Office of Fine Arts of the Baltimore City Public School System called us up and requested 300 copies of our Baltimore Rock Anthem, we were pleased as punch. When they told us that the song would be distributed to all city music teachers, the Fitehouse propaganda machine went into overdrive! Making sure our town’s tikes were getting the best education possible, we wrote lesson plans and a piano reduction of the tune. Taking our school spirit to the musical extreme, bassist Edward Plant even prepared a full marching band arrangement of the song!

Our campaign to get Baltimore declared the city's Official Rock Anthem was on a roll! Sure, it was inspired by the cheesy arena-rock anthems of the 70s, but we wanted to give citizens better karaoke options than the 1916 anthem "Baltimore, Our Baltimore." And our efforts to update our town’s tune-tastic lexicon were appreciated! Several politicians went on record supporting the song, including then Lt. Governor Townsend, an assistant fire chief and a deputy police commissioner. 98 Rock even gave us a half-hour to make our case, though the 6 AM Sunday morning airing probably only got us a few votes from the "I'm still drunk and can’t find my way home from the party” crowd.

Fitehouse...pressin’ flesh, kissin’ babies and sellin’ rock!

Publishing postcards is a
perfectly pleasant pastime!

 

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