Mike Kinsella

Mike Kinsella
Mike Kinsella May 2007
Background information
Born	March 4, 1977 (1977-03-04) (age 34)
Occupations	Musician, Actor
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, keyboards, Bass guitar, drums
Years active	1989–present
Labels	Polyvinyl Records, Jade Tree Records, Green Linnet Records, Perishable Records, Man With Gun Records
Associated acts	Joan of Arc, Owen, Cap'n Jazz, American Football
Website	Official Owen site

Mike Kinsella (born March 4, 1977) is one of three musicians in his family (brother Tim Kinsella and cousin Nate Kinsella) involved in many Illinois-based bands (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, The One Up Downstairs, American Football, and Owen). He was first recognized in the music scene in Cap'n Jazz ^[1] formed by his brother Tim in 1989 while at the age of 12. In 2001 Kinsella began his current solo project, Owen, in which he performs vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, loops, etc.^[2] Kinsella is also in a band, called The Shirts and Skins, with his wife.

To this day, Kinsella continues to play with Joan of Arc, as well as Owen. Many of Kinsella's albums including Owen and No Good for No One Now were recorded in his mother's home.^[3]

Literary references

Mike Kinsella tends to reference literature often in his writing.

• In American Football's "Letters and Packages," he references For Esmé – with Love and Squalor, a J. D. Salinger short story.
• In the Owen album title, "No Good For No One Now," he is probably making a reference to a line from Gazebo, a Raymond Carver short story.
• Likewise, in Owen's "Gazebo" he suggests he is reading Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and makes another reference to the short story Gazebo, with both the story and the song ending in the line "In this too, she was right."
• In Owen's "The Sad Waltzes of Pietro Crespi," he references Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.
• In Owen's "I Woke Up Today," he references T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men."

Discography

Year	Title	Band	Label	Format	Additional Information
1994	Burritos...(AKA: Shmap’n Shmazz)	Cap'n Jazz	Man With Gun Records	LP/CD	Drums/Vocals
1997	A Portable Model of...	Joan of Arc	Jade Tree Records	LP/CD	Drums
1998	Analphabetapolothology	Cap'n Jazz	Jade Tree Records	2xCD	Cap'n Jazz Anthology. Drums/Vocals
1998	Self Titled EP	American Football	Polyvinyl Records	EP/CD	Guitar/Vocals
1999	American Football	American Football	Polyvinyl Records	LP/CD	Bass/Vocals
1999	Live in Chicago	Joan of Arc	Jade Tree Records	LP/CD	Drums, not a live album.
2000	Gap	Joan of Arc	Jade Tree Records	LP/CD	Drums
2000	The Jordan Marx EP	Dantom Sucks Theory	Unknown	EP/CD	Listed as playing "Sexy"
2001	Owls	Owls	Jade Tree Records	LP/CD	Drums
2001	Owen	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals
2002	Heart's Desire	Niamh Parsons	Green Linnet	CD	Harmonica
2002	No Good For No One Now	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals
2002	Open Ground	Kyle Fischer	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Drums
2003	Best of Altan	The Songs Altan	Green Linnet Records	CD	Harmonica
2003	In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex We Trust	Joan of Arc	Perishable Records	CD	Bass, Percussion, Drums
2003	So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness	Joan of Arc	Jade Tree Records	CD	Bass, Drums
2004	Anyone in Love With You (Already Knows)	Rainer Maria	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Tambourine
2004	The Rutabega/Owen Split EP	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals
2004	Total Eclipse of the Heart	The Love of Everything	Record Label Records	CD	Drums
2004	The EP	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals
2004	Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain	Joan of Arc	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Drums
2005	I Do Perceive	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals
2005	Association of Utopian Hologram Swallowers	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals
2005	Presents Guitar Duets	Joan of Arc	Record Label Records	CD	Guitar
2006	At Home With Owen	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Piano/Vocals
2007	Many Times I've Mistaken	Joan of Arc	Polyvinyl Records	EP/CD	Guitar
2007	Owen/The City on Film Split 7"	Owen	Red Cars Go Faster	7" vinyl	Guitar/Piano/Organ/Vocals
2008	Boo Human	Joan of Arc	Polyvinyl Records	LP/CD	Drums
2009	The Seaside EP	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals
2009	New Leaves	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	CD	Guitar/Vocals/etc.
2010	Abandoned Bridge	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	7" EP	Guitar/Vocals
2010	Darling, Darling	Crissi Cochrane	Independent	CD	Drums/Guitar
2011	Oh, Evelyn	Owen	Polyvinyl Records	7" EP	Guitar/Vocals/etc.

References

1. ^ Jade Tree | Press
2. ^ https://www.polyvinylrecords.com/bands/band_info.asp?bandID=10
3. ^ http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/artists/index.php?id=284

External links

• Official Owen site
• Biography in a Joan of Arc fan site
• Owen live on The Current
• Owen's Myspace
• The Shirts and Skins' Myspace

External links

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