Sinfinis: News

On July 18, 2010, Teya King interviewed M.E. and Kai on Poor Souls Society Radio. Hear it, RIGHT HERE.

Get ready for an acoustic, a cappella, avant garde adventure when
Sinfinis goes Bare at SUBVERSION's One-Year Anniversary Party on May 14!

School's out for summer, and Mary Elizabeth is heating up and stripping down Sinfinis songs for a twisted little set she'll play all by her onesie. (Well...perhaps a guest or two will join her...you'll just have to stop by and find out what surprises are in store.)

Unaccompanied voice! Unusual instruments! Brand-new songs! Chainsaws! And YOU!

Keep your Monday blues at bay a while longer...
head to Cicero's in the U-City Loop TOMORROW night
for pizza, beer, and rocking with
Robbie Hazen & the Riot, Spiral-Shaped Mind, AktarAktar, and Sinfinis!
 
Sunday, March 28 at 7:30pm
Cicero's - 6691 Delmar Blvd
University City, MO 63130

 
When to see us next?  Go ask ALICE...

Sinfinis T-Shirts Have Arrived!
Right now, get yours for $10, either style, any size: S - 5XL!
Tall sizes also available...ask for pricing.

 
Sinfinis Logo T-Shirt in Black

 
Sinfinis Logo Ladies' Babydoll Tee in Cardinal Red

Send a message to merch@sinfinis.com to request
a Sinfinis Logo Shirt of your very own! 
Indicate which style, color, and size you would like. 
Someone will contact you lightning-fast.

Join us at the Firebird for our first show of 2010!
We'll be playing there January 21 at 9pm
with Sean Renner, Glitch Factor, and Final Veil.

Bring a non-perishable food item for Operation Food Search and get a FREE CD
or other merch from one of the bands!

First, I want to extend a ginormous THANK YOU to everyone who has supported Sinfinis during the past year. Whether you downloaded a Sinfinis song, came out to a show, bought a CD, forwarded someone a link to the website, took photos or video of a performance, posted flyers around town or throughout cyberspace, harrassed me about the magazine cover shot, tuned in to a radio broadcast, or replied to one of these posts with some encouraging words, I sincerely and humbly thank you for giving your time and attention to my band. 2009 was beautiful and busy. I could not be doing this without people like you.

Here are a few things I'm hoping to see happen during the next 12 months:

1. Expand listenership. Contacting commercial, college, and internet radio stations is crucial to getting one's music heard. It's also immensely time-consuming. If you're willing to help, please send an e-mail message to info@sinfinis.com.

2. Record more music. New songs are begging for release from their confinement in my mind. Remixes of songs from The Edge of a Knife are floating somewhere in the space-time continuum, waiting to be captured.

3. Produce a music video. Have ideas. Have professional contacts. Lack funds. Are you / do you know a talented film student in need of portfolio material?

4. Book more shows at venues we haven't played yet. So far, so good! Catch us at the Firebird on January 21 (with Sean Renner, Glitch Factor, and Final Veil) and at VooDoo Lounge on February 26 (details TBA)!

5. Offer Sinfinis merchandise. I've never factored things like t-shirts into the budget, but now that a number of people have asked me about them, I am starting to look into ordering a few. Please tell me if you might be interested in purchasing a shirt or some other item that you can proudly display on your person or in your home or office. (Sinfinis coffee mugs? Rulers? Wrist bands? Key chains? Bottle openers? Yo-yos?)

6. Participate in more events with local charities and other community service organizations. Off to a good start...the January 21 show will be sponsored by LiveFeed. Bring a non-perishable food item to the show and get a FREE CD or other merchandise from one of the artists on the bill!

7. Utilize more social networking tools. Thanks to a good friend and loyal supporter, you can now follow Sinfinis on Twitter and become a fan at Reverbnation! And if you haven't already, add Sinfinis to your network on MySpace and Facebook.

8. Turn Sinfinis into a more lucrative enterprise. It should be reeeeally obvious by now that I am NOT in this for the money. As many of you know, merely sharing my music has always been more important to me than turning a profit. This is still the case. But let's face it - in order to produce more quality recordings (see items 2 and 3 above), I need cash. So, if you have the dough and the inclination, please buy a CD, or share a link to the music with a friend and encourage him or her to buy one. Or buy other merch when it's available (see #5 above). Or come to a show. Or ask me how to make a donation.

9. Talk Jason Cook into becoming a permanent member. He's been a hired gun up to this point, which is absolutely fine, but I'd love for him to be a bigger part of Sinfinis. If you've had the pleasure of seeing Jason in all his electro-awesomeness at one of our shows, and you think that he ROCKS, please post a comment on this blog or send me a message with a compliment that I can forward to him. Perhaps flooding his inbox with flattery will encourage him to sign on. (No pressure, Jason.)

10. Acquire additional band members. This year, my songs met the stage with a variety of instrumentation, from acoustic guitar to glockenspiel to flute to synth/keys to voice alone. Know a fantastic bassist? You shred on guitar? Play a mean set of spoons? Call me.

If you read this far, you're ultra-committed, and I thank you again.

Wishing you a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!
Mary Elizabeth
Managing Member
Sinfinis

The station whose motto is "Playing Whatever We Feel Like"
feels like playing Sinfinis!
Tune in to Westplex 100.7 FM at 8:30am on Tuesday, December 8 to hear Beau Vighn and Katy Kruze interview Mary Elizabeth and Jason.

Gear up for White Noize with Local Static!

Stop by the Hot Topic store at Saint Louis Mills on December 2 to hang out with Ken from Shinma, Mary Elizabeth and Jason from Sinfinis, and Justin from Spiral-Shaped Mind!
Hear music from all the artists from 7pm-8pm!
Score CDs and other goodies!
Get tickets to their December 5 WHITE NOIZE show
at The Fox Hole!

Celebrate the season with this all-electronic lineup!

Jason Cook (Skinjobb, Jetpack) will join Mary Elizabeth again to electro-rock Felix's on Saturday, November 21!
Also playing: The Peluso Project, Hephaestus, and Nedra.
This show is ALL-AGES!

Thanks to everyone who took photos at our October 10 show at The Library in St. Louis, MO! Click HERE to check out some photos shot by friends in addition to several by photographers Lynn Gerred and Annie Bort!

Mary Elizabeth is pictured on the cover of the September 2009 issue of St Louis Sinner magazine, wearing art by Pl@stic! Pick up a copy at one of various concert venues, shops, and restaurants in the downtown St. Louis area or the University City Loop!

The STL SHE! SHOW scheduled for tonight at The Map Room has been CANCELED!

We were planning to play outside in the Courtyard.

As recently as last night, the venue owners had told us that if it rained then the show would proceed indoors.

Today, the owners changed their minds. The Map Room owners have decided to cancel the entire show, despite our protests.

Sinfinis is VERY VERY SORRY - especially for the inexcusably late notice - and we hope that The Map Room's poor judgment and unprofessional decision will not reflect badly on Sinfinis or any of the other artists.

If you would like to register your displeasure - purposefully but politely - please contact The Map Room directly via telephone or email at:

314-776-3515
the-map-room@sbcglobal.net

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FOLLOW-UP

"The show must go on." ~ Old Performance Adage

This is Mary Elizabeth of Sinfinis. In my view, The Map Room's cancelation was extremely unprofessional and unfair to the four bands on the bill, to live artist Pl@stic, as well as to the unknown number of people who planned to attend the show. If you share my view, and if you are able to gently and politely bring your opinion to The Map Room's attention - without "flaming" or being vitriolic - then I encourage you to do so. I DO NOT encourage you to do so out of petty vindictiveness or spite, but out of the belief that gentle correction should be used when it is warranted and in the hope that such correction will help to enhance The Map Room's professionalism. The St. Louis music scene cannot reach a higher level of professionalism without accountability. I agree with the following principle:

"True peace is not the absence of conflict, it's the presence of justice."

~ attributed to Martin Luther King Jr.

The views expressed here are solely mine and my husband / business consultant, Matthew J. Bell's, not necessarily the views of the members of Wack-a-Doo, Sheila Shahpari, Blue, Bradley Pipkin (Pl@stic), or the show promoter, Craig Scheffer.