Artist description The Landlords is an ever interchangeable mixture of musicians with Eric Brown being the permanent fixture as singer/songwriter.

Music Style Pop/Alternative

Musical Influences Everything from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, to The Pixies, Sunny Day Realestate and Beck

Similar Artists The Pixies, The Waterladies, Slow Drag

Artist History The Landlords don't have any band history. The band doesn't even exist. They only exist skipping around in the mind of this silly son of a bitch barely living in Kalamazoo. Yeah, Kalamazoo. The songs are all written by this guy named Eric Brown. I'm his web master and quite frankly I don't like the guy. I'm only doing this for him because I owe him money. I asked him what he wanted me to write for the "Artist Info" and he said, " I don't give a shit, write what ever the hell you think you should write". So now I gotta write all this crap for him. I'd rather just pay Eric his money back, but I'm broke and he'll kick my ass if I don't do one or the other. I've got a few pounds on him but Brown's a real shit kicker. I've seen him in action. Anyway, I should be writing less about myself and more about Eric and his stupid, non existing band. So obviously, Eric Brown writes all the music and words for The Landlords and sings everything, yada, yada, suck me. He recruits local, upstanding musicians to help him record these songs in the studio. I've got quite a bit of respect for these musicians and know some of them personally, and can't understand why they would work for such an invalid like Brown. He can't even pay these musicians, who are the best in the area. I suppose they do it out of respect for the music. So Eric gets this crazy idea for a song and goes out to the bar and approaches some musician and says "Hey, you wanna help me record a song?" and they say "Sure Brown, I'll help you record a song". When the fellas are finished recording, they usually look at Eric and say, "So what kind of pay am I getting here?" and Eric says, " You can grab another beer on your way out". I suppose they didn't expect too much to begin with. So yeah, that's pretty much it. The Landlords don't really exist. If you heard it and wanted to check out a live show, well, tough. You can, however, order The Landlords' album entitled "Super Glue" by contacting me, which probably won't happen. I'll send you an album in a hurry, but not as a favor to Eric. I'll do it because I think the music is really good and should be heard. And to Eric, if you even know what the hell a computer is and you've gotten your retarded ass on line and are reading this, just remember: I asked you what I should write. You told me to write whatever. If you want to kick my ass again, why don't you just get your lazy ass over to this side of the country and do it. You probably don't even have a god damn car. You probably don't even know if you have a valid drivers license or not. Damned Fool.

Group Members "Leave Your Toys" and "Spread The Truth" (E.Brown) Eric plays rhythm guitar and sings, Jamie plays lead guitar, Chris plays rhythm guitar, Oz plays drums, Bill plays bass.

Instruments Guitars, bass, drums, vocals

Albums "Super Glue"

Press Reviews Eric Brown, singer/songwriter for The Waterladies made an unannounced appearance at the 40th Annual Clam Bake in Cheribusco, Turtle Town last night, bringing with him a number of hired guns including Jamie Thompson from Big Sam, Mark Baldwin from Rapid Lounge, Caine Johnson from Boy's Meal, Derick Montague from Snorkel and more. The Clam Bake boasts the largest open mic night known, often attracting national, big name talent. The open mic is hosted by songwriter extraordinaire Aaron Write. Eric introduced the band as "The Landlords" and they played four songs as the sunset burned and surrendered. The Landlords opened with a song entitled "Leave Your Toy's". This song contains lyrics highly typical of Brown and the audience was immediately captured. The crowd obviously contained plenty of Waterladies fans and the music contained obvious reflections of the work Brown has done in The Waterladies, a three-piece project co-fronted by singer/songwriter Herb Ledbetter. The biggest difference between The Waterladies and The Landlords is that the latter sports three guitarists including Brown. I found the music to be very captivating and so did the crowd. This four song set seemed to set the theme for the night: Get out the booze and get the party moving, folks. The festival bustled with an excellent turn out, as it has year after year, but it wouldn't have been brought to the next level if The Landlords hadn't stopped in...The Bandwagon July, 2000.

Location Kalamazoo, MI - USA

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