The Show Is the Rainbow
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The Show is the Rainbow is a one man band from Lincoln, NE, A.K.A Darren Keen, formerly of 3 Day Meat Sale. For much of 2006, The Show is the Rainbow toured as a three-piece, with Javid Dabestani and Jim Schroeder playing alongside Keen. Currently, Keen is touring as a one-man band. The Show is the Rainbow plays an eclectic mix of rock, electronica and hip-hop inspired by artists such as Todd Rundgren, Frank Zappa, Nina Hagen, Les Savy Fav, Squarepusher and Beck. The Show is the Rainbow has gained a national following by means of near constant touring and energetic live shows that focus on audience interaction.
Darren Keen has gained notoriety for his commentary on indie fashion and scene icons such as Conor Oberst and Saddle Creek. This is most notable in the song "Up a Creek without a Saddle." Darren Keen also produced his own version of the fake interview from Bright Eyes' own Fevers and Mirrors, where he discusses cocaine, trite symbolism and indie scene stereotypes. This was in response to being "called out" in a hidden track that appears on Criteria's En Garde. He has played alongside bands such as Yip-Yip, Broken Spindles, The Mae Shi, Gravy Train!!!!, Beep Beep, Cex, The Locust, Neil Hamburger, Girl Talk, Tay Zonday, Foxy Shazam, Tub Ring, Cursive, Dan Deacon, Mindless Self Indulgence, and The Faint.
Darren has started his own record label, It Are Good -
IT ARE GOOD RECORDS RELEASES
IAG001- The Show is the Rainbow "Homosexual Mohawk" CD- 06.23.05. 1000 CD's
IAG002-The Show is the Rainbow "Gymnasia" LP- 04.03.07. 500 Blue/Brown LP's
IAG003 - Yip-Yip "Two Kings of the Same Kingdom" LP- 04.27.07. 500 Black/White Lp's.
IAG004 - UUVVWWZ "UUVVWWZ" LP - 06.04.08. 500 Black LP's
Band members
- Darren Keen
Discography
Albums
- Radboyz Only!!! (2005 · Tsk Tsk Records)
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree
- Keepers of the Sand
- Up the Creek Without a Saddle
- The Creepiest Creep in All the Land
- Medicillin
- The Creep Returns Home
- Jailbait Babycake
- The New Deal
- Babe Born in Blue Skies
- Gymnasia (2007 · SAF Records)
- Gothic Cajun
- You are the Bloodgnome
- Three
- I am the Decline
- Do the Skinny
- Alls well blah blah blah
- Safe Art
- Waiting not Working pt. 1
- Waiting not Working pt. 2
- Waiting not Working pt. 3
- Swatting Flies
- Gymnasia
Singles & EPs
- Barry Sure Wrote Alot of Songs About the Girls He's Loved (2003 · Suckapunch Records)
- Correcting Dog Behavior Problems Using Dog Radartron (2004 · Suckapunch Records)
- Homosexual Mowhawk (2005 · It Are Good Records)
- The Perfect Push / Nametag 7" (2007 · Yosada Records)
Splits
- The Show is the Rainbow/Troubled Hubble - Baila Con Mi Hija 7" (2003 · Sunday's Best Records)