About Manbox:"Man in the Box" is a single by the grunge group Alice in Chains. It was released in 1991 and featured on their debut full-length album Facelift. In the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection, Jerry Cantrell said of the song, "That whole beat and grind of that is when we started to find ourselves; it helped Alice become what it was." The song makes use of a talk box to create the guitar effect.
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Track Listing:
1. Broken Head
2. Ahoma Coma
3. No One's There (I Don't Care)
The making of the Manbox EP:
1. Quickly have two complete strangers record an EP of songs via the internet with 2 completely different recording programs...one of those programs being terrible.
2. Burn 200 cdrs (well, have a sad intern do it...guess what interns...there's never going to be any more openings in the music business...EVER! We tricked you into being a cdr and social networking slave!)
3. Spray paint 200 cdrs. (do not open window if you wanna have a "brain party")
4. Find a friend of a friend's photobucket page and then ask them if you can use one of their drawings for free. Send them some cd promos from 2001 as payment.
5. Cut a stencil of this drawing.
6. Have another "brain party" and spray paint 200 cardboard cd cases
7. put a giant Doghouse sticker on the back (this is called "branding" If you don't know what that is you don't know anything about business and shouldn't be running your own spray paint cdr label)
8. stamp all the cardboard cd cases with a doghouse logo on the spine..."double branding!"
9. print out some cd inserts on a color printer which is mostly out of color ink. This will give the project a "vintage" feel. Making something vintage makes it more credible and you'll be able to sell the product to an older demographic. (you'll probably even get a great review
on "in-the-know websites" like pitchfork, stereogum and AOL Music!
10. Have a dude randomly draw something awesome for the project. Find a low resolution jpeg of this and print out a blurry insert with the tracklisting on it. If it is blurry then it is mostly likely extremely "difficult" to read. If things are difficult, then they are challenging and therefore "experimental" "music" "experimental music" is big right now... so guess what...you've just "branded" yourself to a new "target demographic"..this is called "music marketing" and "juicing the goose"
11. find some yarn in your office. Instead of throwing out the yarn, cut up 200 pieces of it and stick those in the cardboard cases. This is what we call a "mystery item" "mystery" is a type of business model. Do you know who Nine Inch Nails are? Thought so...guess what??...you fell for a "mystery item business model" and didn't even know it. Enjoy listening to Pretty Hate Machine!!!...even if you don't like it?
1. Broken Head
2. Ahoma Coma
3. No One's There (I Don't Care)
The making of the Manbox EP:
1. Quickly have two complete strangers record an EP of songs via the internet with 2 completely different recording programs...one of those programs being terrible.
2. Burn 200 cdrs (well, have a sad intern do it...guess what interns...there's never going to be any more openings in the music business...EVER! We tricked you into being a cdr and social networking slave!)
3. Spray paint 200 cdrs. (do not open window if you wanna have a "brain party")
4. Find a friend of a friend's photobucket page and then ask them if you can use one of their drawings for free. Send them some cd promos from 2001 as payment.
5. Cut a stencil of this drawing.
6. Have another "brain party" and spray paint 200 cardboard cd cases
7. put a giant Doghouse sticker on the back (this is called "branding" If you don't know what that is you don't know anything about business and shouldn't be running your own spray paint cdr label)
8. stamp all the cardboard cd cases with a doghouse logo on the spine..."double branding!"
9. print out some cd inserts on a color printer which is mostly out of color ink. This will give the project a "vintage" feel. Making something vintage makes it more credible and you'll be able to sell the product to an older demographic. (you'll probably even get a great review
on "in-the-know websites" like pitchfork, stereogum and AOL Music!
10. Have a dude randomly draw something awesome for the project. Find a low resolution jpeg of this and print out a blurry insert with the tracklisting on it. If it is blurry then it is mostly likely extremely "difficult" to read. If things are difficult, then they are challenging and therefore "experimental" "music" "experimental music" is big right now... so guess what...you've just "branded" yourself to a new "target demographic"..this is called "music marketing" and "juicing the goose"
11. find some yarn in your office. Instead of throwing out the yarn, cut up 200 pieces of it and stick those in the cardboard cases. This is what we call a "mystery item" "mystery" is a type of business model. Do you know who Nine Inch Nails are? Thought so...guess what??...you fell for a "mystery item business model" and didn't even know it. Enjoy listening to Pretty Hate Machine!!!...even if you don't like it?
Manbox Downloads:
none available
NEWSRecent news about Manbox.
Monday, February 23rd 2009The Making Of The Manbox EPCurious to see how those limited edition CD-R packages for the Manbox EP are being put together? Head over to the Dog Blog and check out our in-depth look into the process. How about a hand for those interns, eh?
Wednesday, February 18th 2009Limited Edition Manbox EP Available NowThe Manbox EP isn't scheduled for release until April but we've got a way for you to get your hands on it two months early. Doghouse will be hand-making 200 physical CD-R copies of the EP and packaging them in spray-painted cardboard boxes. This special, limited-edition CD-R is available now, with two packaging choices. For $4 ppd, you can get the three-song Manbox EP or for $9 ppd, you can get a 3 CD bundle that includes Weatherbox's The Clearing EP and Mansions' self-titled EP. Whichever you choose, it's super limited and awesome so don't delay because they'll be gone before you know it.
Wednesday, February 04th 2009Mansions + Weatherbox = ManboxMansions' Christopher Browder and Weatherbox's Brian Warren have joined forces to create Manbox. The duo's debut EP will be released in April via Doghouse. Stay tuned for further updates.
Both Mansions and Weatherbox will hit the road together for a few dates in March, so check out Tour Dates page and see if they are stopping in a town near you.
Both Mansions and Weatherbox will hit the road together for a few dates in March, so check out Tour Dates page and see if they are stopping in a town near you.
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