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Kicksville

N/A, , US • 5 - 9 Employees
Entertainment/Media

Kicksville. Population at last count: 58 and growing fast. Founded as a creative vacation resort by Mayor Mike Stehr and Commissioner Conrad St. Clair, it's grown into a musical collective, artistic movement, and a virtual community. Everything is created from scratch by Kicksville's citizens, a team of musicians, artists, writers, and tech geeks who commute to Kicksville from twelve different cities on three continents and who've worked with a dizzying range of other artists ranging from Laurie Anderson to Van Halen and dozens of others, including Queen, BB King, King Crimson and members of the Grateful Dead.If you're still confused by how Kicksville operates, Commissioner St. Clair sums it up for you: "The Mayor and I are the starting point for most of the music, and we basically run most of the business side of things. The City Council is made up of folks who have been at the heart of our creative process - they're the core of the live show, and help out with production and business matters. The Citizens of Kicksville are people who have written, recorded, or worked with us creatively in one way or another."The music of Kicksville ranges from the Malian blues of Kalamaya to the surrealist funk of Dumfukistan to the dark industrial throttle of Krankypants. Incorporating improvisation, painstaking programming, melodic sensibility, bizarre sound effects, and award-winning poetry, genre-defying is a lame cliche that doesn't even come close to describing Kicksville.