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  Review by: GlassPipeMurder See others by this writer ![[staff]](/images/icons/staffsticker.gif){kind=icon}
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Published on April 13th 2007
With independent record labels in a panic over declining sales in the past months, many are taking certain measures to cut costs. One of the cost-cutting strategies has been to scale back on promoting via independent and college radio stations. Having worked with college radio for a number of years now, I have been saddened to see the tradition of independent record companies working hand in hand with independent, non-commercial radio stations diminish in such a short amount of time. That’s why I couldn’t have been happier with opening a package from Takeover Records addressed to the radio station, sliding Hey Mike!’s self-titled into the CD player, and receiving the best surprise I’d had in a long time.
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"I think it's the negative comments below are pretty funny seeing as how the people who wrote them obviously arent doing shit thats worh being known about. they have nothing better to do than cut people down. They can say whatever they please but in real life the guitarists for HeyMike! would eat them alive all day.Namely Steven and Brandon.Ben plays in Brandon's place now and he's no spring chicken either." this album is awesome.kinda reminds me of the "in recovery" from inspection 12... "The singer/guitarist for this band was in Craig's Brother for awhile and so was their drummer." pretty fuckin awesome stuff right here.... think i'm gonna get this. Score's for mentioning Inspection 12. Damn shame that band wil never be as huge as they should be. I think it's the negative comments below are pretty funny seeing as how the people who wrote them obviously arent doing shit thats worh being known about. they have nothing better to do than cut people down. They can say whatever they please but in real life the guitarists for HeyMike! would eat them alive all day.Namely Steven and Brandon.Ben plays in Brandon's place now and he's no spring chicken either. they picked bad songs for their myspace page. definitely check out the ones in the review. I'll admit, the whole "throwback to 90s skatepunk" line made me go check this out. Last I checked, Simple Plan weren't a 90s skatepunk band... that's exactly who this sounds like. score is for the album almost as bad of a name as ryan's hope Yes, I believe Ben Harper is now in this band, though I don't think he played on this record. I'm going to check out some stuff off this. I12 is underappreciated. yeah, since we all know punk is all about experimentation, douchebag. i think this stuff is cool. def. better than most shit that's popular now. oh my god. a 90's-sounding skate/pop punk sounding band. that is so original. I am shocked that a band could possibly be original. for the past five hours, I have been reassuring myself, saying "oh my God, this cannot be possible; no band can be that creative". then I look back at the screen, and Hey Mike, with their limitless conceptual talent, stares back at me, saying "be prepared for something that isn't totally hackneyed" Hey. |
