Paranoid Futures

Welcome to Paranoid Futures. A blog and record label run to document my work as an artist. I am a musician/composer currently living in Los Angeles. Founder/member of Deep Sleep, Kent State, Suspect and others as well as composing music for various television/film projects. Most everything on the site is available to download free, so please take a look around! I offer free downloads so that it may be available to as many people as possible, however, it is not free to make and any and all purchases go towards future releases, shirts, cover art, and more. Thanks! -Nicholas booking/questions/paypal/contact = [email protected] Paranoid Futures Discography FREE downloads Paranoid Futures Webstore Buy Stuff! Deep Sleep 80's Hardcore Kent State Lo-Fi Psychedelic Death Pop Suspect Punk/Hardcore

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 SUSPECT - Crawl To The End two sided tees available now! www.paranoidfutures.storeenvy.com

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Modern Life Is War /Suspect this Saturday, Nov 30th at The Che in SD!

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Tonight at The Che Cafe in San Diego.  Get there early and catch Suspect!

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Deep Sleep at The Fest 12 in Gainesville, FL 2013 Into My Brain/ Head Spins from the Turn Me Off LP

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Tennis System Part Time Punks Session

I played bass for Tennis System for their Part Time Punks Session. It's being released by PaperCup Music. I think it came out great and had a lot of fun playing on these songs. You can pick up a physical copy on PaperCup Music HERE. This is a limited pressing of only 500 LP's and the first 100 are a special edition translucent blue. You can find more info on Tennis System HERE

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    Next Up: November 2nd Deep Sleep W/ Vaz, Roomrunner, Multicult at the Golden West Baltimore, MD  November 3rd

Deep Sleep w / ALL at THE FEST Gainesville, Florida

November 30th Suspect w/ Modern Life is War Che Cafe, San Diego, CA

December 1st

Suspect w/ Modern Life is War

Echoplex

Los Angeles, CA

booking: [email protected]

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Deformities - Sometimes I Wish For My Own Death b/w Still Separated II

Deformities - Sometimes I Wish For My Own Death b/w Still Separated II www.deformities.bandcamp.com Free download Punks from Baltimore and LA. Members of Sick Thoughts and Kent State. Drew Owen on Drums and Lead Vox and Nick Vance on Guitars and Backing Vox 

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Deformities are coming!

Beware.

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  Kent State Wrong Side of History Collection LPs have arrived. We think they look great. 100 on blue and 400 on black. Will not be repressed. They are $13 PPD in the US to [email protected] International orders please place through our bandcamp. "an interesting and unlikely combination of shoegaze noisiness (and occasionally droniness), Guided by Voices-style hooks, and hardcore punk energy. If, like me, your anglophilic tendencies encompass everything from the Buzzcocks to Ride to Blur to Blitz to Mega City Four you will almost certainly like this. Killer, heavy, guitar-oriented pop" - Sorry State 

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New - Kent State - Crashing Satellites

Kent State are a four piece out of LA, headed by Nicholas Vance (a busy man having founded several other bands in addition to running his own record label Paranoid Futures and composing music for television and film). If the low-fi rawness of their sound wasn’t enough of an indicator, and the fact that The Wrong Side of History is a collection of tracks previously released only to tape, Vance has that DIY ethos that we here at Opinears not only appreciate but massively respect. This guy is just giving music away on his website (The Wrong Side of History is free on bandcamp, but also selling it on blue vinyl for the low price of ten bucks). You can get someone to listen to your music by making it free, but you make a fan when that music is also good.

So, how do we describe Kent State? Well they did all the work for me by describing themselves as psychedelic death pop. After giving their latest release, a few listens I couldn’t agree more with this self assessment. Crashing Satellites pretty much showcases all those elements: fuzzy echo effects abound in the vocals, off kilter guitar chords and fun poppy drums to wiggle to. Hundred Years War and 2814 (this one starts off with a really rad surf guitar) are other favorites of mine. 

You can just sense that these guys will do a number on your hearing after seeing them. The Wrong Side of History is one of the more ambitious and strange (I like strange!)  lo-fi albums I’ve heard this year , not sticking to any one sort of formula and never a moment dull.  The entire album gives you this sense that something is creeping in the shadows, ready to put it’s cold hand on your shoulder and pull you in. Don’t be afraid though, it’s way more fun in the dark. -a

<a href=”http://kentstate.bandcamp.com/album/the-wrong-side-of-history” data-mce-href=”http://kentstate.bandcamp.com/album/the-wrong-side-of-history”>The Wrong Side of History by Kent State</a>

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Stoked to announce a new SUSPECT 10 song 12” ep coming this fall on @reactrecords !

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Tennis System Technicolour Blind video

Tennis System recently released a video for the song Technicolour Blind from their forthcoming LP. Check it out!

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The Kent State Wrong Side of History LPs are out now on Debt Offensive/Paranoid Futures records. 100 on blue/400 on black vinyl. 

Canadians/distros/bloggers/zines/stores/etc get in touch with Todd Debt Offensive. [email protected]

http://kentstate.bandcamp.com/album/the-wrong-side-of-history

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KENT STATE this Friday at The Echoplex!!!!

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Paranoid Futures summer update

Hey everybody! It's business as usual around here and I have a million things going on at once. First off, there is a Kent State LP 16 song collection coming out in July called The Wrong Side of History being released on Paranoid Futures/ Debt Offensive Records. We've just released the Kent State Live On KUCI digitally. You can go check it out on the KS bandcamp. As usual it is streaming/free download. We had some problems with the Kent State/ Shivering Window split tape but it should be out very soon and will ship as soon as we get them. Thanks to all who have ordered, and thank you so much for you patience. For those who wanna check it out, it is available to stream/DL on the bandcamp page as well. Unfortunately we have had to postpone the Kent State Eats Coast tour for a number of personal reasons. We are gonna hit the road as soon as we can! In other exciting news, SUSPECT is tracking songs for their new 10 song 12" ep today. Expect an late summer release for this one. We are working with a really awesome label, we just gotta keep it quiet for now! The tape will be released on Paranoid Futures. the SUSPECT cassettes of the demo are almost gone so grab them while you can from our webstore! It will be re-released soon on 7" by Six Feet Under Records. For those who don't know, I recently joined a shoegaze/ noispop band from Los Angeles called Tennis System. Great dudes, great songs and it's been a lot of fun so far! We recently played an MTV event called the O Music Awards. Check out footage of a song we played that night called Such A Drag here. We have some cool shows coming up! July 5th   -Kent State at the Echo w/ The Oblivians, Fuzz, Milk Music, The Intelligence and more! July 28th -Tennis System at the Echo w/ Weekend & Surf Club for more shows and info just click on the new upcoming shows  tab in the sidebar

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the Kent State live set on KUCI from a few weeks ago is now up on our bandcamp to stream or download FREE!

http://kentstate.bandcamp.com/album/live-on-kuci

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I recently joined Tennis System on bass for their 30 day US tour. 

Last night we played an event called O Music Awards hosted by MTV/VH1. MTV posted a video from last night's performance Tennis System playing our new single Such A Drag. Check it out!

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KENT STATE 16 song LP Wrong Side of History available July 2013! #psychedelicdeathpop #shoegaze #lofi #noisepop