*“Seattle’s next big act…” – NPR, “A great find…” – Entertainment Weekly

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Mountain Con singer James Nugent professes that, “If you want to know what rock will sound like in ten years, just listen to Mountain Con”. And who wouldn’t want to know what music will sound like in 10 years? And now you can take a look at the future as well, with the band’s amazing new video for “The Silver Age,” the latest single from Mountain Con’s new album Sancho Panza.

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The self shot, directed and edited promo film is a huge achievement considering the odds, and effectively brings to life the band’s complex, unique sound and unusual vision.* But, that’s all talk, isn’t it?* Take a look at “The Silver Age” via YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXnPRE-hjTw.

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Mountain Con just celebrated Labor Day by playing this year’s Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, alongside other artists such as Blondie, The New Pornographers, Kanye West, and Lady Sovereign among others.

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That’s comfy company for a band like Mountain Con.* They are rock outsiders, but rock innovators - forging a new brand of music on the margins of the culture - seamlessly incorporating hip-hop production into the rock aesthetic - five musicians and one DJ feeding off of each other to produce new sounds.

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Mountain Con build their own samples and in some cases sample their own samples, like a snake eating its own tail.* A perfect example is the third track from Sancho Panza.* “Apocalyptic” is a song built from a sample taken from another song on the same album, “Rocket Out of Trash”.* In a sense, Mountain Con exists to feed itself samples, using them as inspiration and structure for the finished songs.

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This all comes from a rock band that NPR calls “Seattle’s next big act”. A band that Entertainment Weekly dubs “a great find”, with an album that The Tripwire touts as, “a soundtrack fit for all aspects of the everyday”.* They’re right - Sancho Panza is one of those records that invariably end up on those “best records you didn’t hear this year” lists.* Don’t leave yourself wondering “how did I miss this record?”

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Sancho Panza Tracklisting:

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01. Encoder

02. The Escape Artist

03. Apocalyptic

04. Killers

05. House Party In The New Dark Ages

06. Devotion Is So Twentieth Century

07. The Silver Age (VIDEO)

08. Nero

09. To Infinity

10. Rocket Out Of Trash

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On The Web:

www.mountaincon.com *

www.myspace.com/mountaincon

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