Welcome to Square Tire Music.

Well, you made it. Frankly, we're impressed. There are billions of websites. Millions and millions of bands. Thousands of record labels. And yet here you are. Standing at our doorstep. However you found us really doesn't matter. We're glad you're here. We hope you like what you find here at Square Tire. We hope you tell only your closest and best friends and they in turn only tell their closest and best friends.

The single most significant thing that separates the Square Tire bands from any other record label is that we are all of us friends. We hang out. We sing each others songs. We often play in each other's bands. We expect this will change over time, as we plan to add more bands to our label's roster, but at the core of Square Tire there will always be friendship.

Unfortunately, we're not scenesters. We're also not hipsters. We're not particularly cool. We're certainly not connected. Our fathers weren't rock stars. Our mothers weren't record executives. Our uncles aren't publicists, agents, or producers. We're just normal musicians with extraordinary talent that have grown weary waiting and hoping that someone will someday “discover” us. We don't want to be discovered anymore. We want to be found. By you. And we've succeeded.

However, without the backing of multi-billion dollar record labels we aren't able to afford lots of things that our competition can. In fact, right now, as our video introduction says, we can't even afford to eat, clothe ourselves, and keep gas in our vehicles by making music alone. We all have day jobs. Sometimes we have two day jobs. This fact, however, is about to change. And we're asking you to help us make this change.

The first way we ask you to help is by buying our music. We know you can probably download our music for free. Or burn a copy of your friend's disc. But we're asking you to recognize that we have spent hundreds and thousands of hours writing, rehearsing, recording, and performing these songs and that has value. In the same way you would expect to get paid for something that you spent years of your life working to create. It's only 10 bucks. We all drop 10 bucks for food without thinking. We spend dramatically more for a night out at the movies. This is 10 dollars that goes directly into the pockets of the bands that you love. It means that we get to make more records. We get to keep recording the music that you love. And we get to do so without having to worry about whether or not we'll have a place to sleep at night. All because you paid 10 bucks for music you get to keep forever.

Second, we ask that you tell only your closest and best friends about our site. The band members of every Square Tire band have made a commitment to this site. We're on this site every day. We're actively connecting with our fans. And we want to make sure that those fans are the types of people that we like to associate with. We don't want assholes. We don't want music snobs. We don't want people that misinterpret music as background noise. We want people that love music. That's what we are. Music for people that love music. And if you happen to fall into this category, if you truly fall into this category, then you will recognize that good music is not defined by genre, or instruments, or clothing styles, or fads, or sounds, or even musical ability. Good music is defined by you. And what you like, well, that's good music. Hopefully, you like the music we make. We love it. It's our reason for existing. And that's a pretty good feeling, knowing that you're doing what you were born to do.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.

Mike TV
Proud member of the Square Tire family. Close