Love Equals Pi Divided by Pie

Portland Pi(e) Rats

After arduous work and the emotional roller coaster of the last 18 months, Melvin Stalkmus and company are here with an amazing collection of fourteen songs about pie, pi, love, and art!  Including all four songs from their earlier EP with us, all their singles, and several new tracks, you can get all of this Portland indie band's Radio Oumuamua work in this collection, Love Equals Pi Divided by Pie!  Diehard fans and music lovers alike are sure to love it!

After arduous work and the emotional roller coaster of the last 18 months, Melvin Stalkmus and company are here with an amazing collection of fourteen songs about pie, pi, love, and art! Including all four songs from their earlier EP with us, all their singles, and several new tracks, you can get all of this Portland indie band's Radio Oumuamua work in this collection, Love Equals Pi Divided by Pie! Diehard fans and music lovers alike are sure to love it!

Radio Oumuamua

Love Equals Pi Divided by Pie by Portland Pi(e) Rats

You Can't Make Pie Without Pi

You Can't Make Pie Without Pi by Portland Pi(e) Rats

Pi is a Constant

3.14 Reasons

Fresh Out of Pieland

3:14 on Pie Day

My Baby's Love is Constantly Variable

My Baby's Love is Constantly Variable by Portland Pi(e) Rats

Pie Fly

About Pi

The Last Time

Pi Without Pie

Where There is Pie, There is Hope

Where There is Pie, There is Hope by Portland Pi(e) Rats

Three Hundred Sixty Degrees

Three Hundred Sixty Degrees by Portland Pi(e) Rats

Endless Circle

I Love You Most on Pi Day

I Love You Most on Pi Day by Portland Pi(e) Rats

My Life in Pie Charts

My Life in Pie Charts by Portland Pi(e) Rats

Repeater

Fingerless

‘Repeater' is the fifth album by the band Fingerless.

It was recorded mainly in Jeff Lovejoy’s studio Black Box Recording, with some tasteful overdubs done in my dodgy home studio. The title of the album has a bit more meaning than you might think. The life of a musician is full of repetition: listening to the same song(s) or artist(s) over and over again, learning/practicing an instrument is just playing the same thing(s) over and over again, writing a song is just playing a riff or chord progression over and over again until you find a lyric or melody or whatever that goes with it, writing lyrics feels like saying the same thing over and over again—and don’t even get me started on the recording/mixing/mastering process.

More than this, though, most of the songs on this album seem (to me, at least) to circle around the same topic: human connection and hope. We need this. We’ve always needed this, and we always will. We’re all repeaters, in the end. Some of these songs were written during the extended post-2020 malaise, while others were written before COVID, and still others were written more recently. But for whatever reason these songs ended up being about things people share; moments, lifetimes, tears, fears, ambition, jealousy, jokes, stories and legacies. None of this is new, we tell the same stories to each other over and over again; we all feed the same stream. But, nevertheless, there’s always more to come, more to share, more to lament. More of the same? Probably. But does that make it any less meaningful?

Playing and believing, tell me something more revealing.
Taking and repeating, building something more appealing. 

‘Repeater' is the fifth album by the band Fingerless.
It was recorded mainly in Jeff Lovejoy’s studio Black Box Recording, with some tasteful overdubs done in my dodgy home studio. The title of the album has a bit more meaning than you might think. The life of a musician is full of repetition: listening to the same song(s) or artist(s) over and over again, learning/practicing an instrument is just playing the same thing(s) over and over again, writing a song is just playing a riff or chord progression over and over again until you find a lyric or melody or whatever that goes with it, writing lyrics feels like saying the same thing over and over again—and don’t even get me started on the recording/mixing/mastering process.
More than this, though, most of the songs on this album seem (to me, at least) to circle around the same topic: human connection and hope. We need this. We’ve always needed this, and we always will. We’re all repeaters, in the end. Some of these songs were written during the extended post-2020 malaise, while others were written before COVID, and still others were written more recently. But for whatever reason these songs ended up being about things people share; moments, lifetimes, tears, fears, ambition, jealousy, jokes, stories and legacies. None of this is new, we tell the same stories to each other over and over again; we all feed the same stream. But, nevertheless, there’s always more to come, more to share, more to lament. More of the same? Probably. But does that make it any less meaningful?
Playing and believing, tell me something more revealing.
Taking and repeating, building something more appealing.

More to Come (Original Mix)

More to Come

Portfolio (Original Mix)

Portfolio

Grotesque (Original Mix)

Grotesque

Monster (Original Mix)

Monster

Yes Today (Original Mix)

Yes Today

Charlie (Original Mix)

Charlie

Hell is Othering People (Original Mix)

Hell is Othering People

Cry a Little (Original Mix)

Cry a Little

The Same Stream (Original Mix)

The Same Stream

Radio Oumuamua Sampler #4

Crow Headquarters

Heart Life

Toys I Don't Trust

Jazz Funk Greats

Nico and the Machiavellians

Cool Breeze

Heart Metal

The Nigels

The Hank Toughs

The Birmingham Sand

The Funktionals

Lotta Lane

The Dots

Sepulchre of Doomed Doom

Peaty Petes

Penny Bets

The New Exorcists

Curvewave

The Meaty Yoricks

Our fourth sampler is out!  One track by each of our artists who have released any recordings on Radio Oumuamua since our last sampler, available, as always, at a nice price on Artcore and Bandcamp at least until the next sampler rolls around.  And, as always, you should be able to find it on your favorite (or least-disliked) streamer!

Our fourth sampler is out! One track by each of our artists who have released any recordings on Radio Oumuamua since our last sampler, available, as always, at a nice price on Artcore and Bandcamp at least until the next sampler rolls around. And, as always, you should be able to find it on your favorite (or least-disliked) streamer!

Such a Waste of Time

Flock Off

Such a Waste of Time by Crow Headquarters

I'd Love to Create Some Song Lyrics for You

I'd Love to Create Some Song Lyrics for You by Sepulchre of Doomed Doom

Recommendation

Hey Mama Don't Mess with My Threads

Hey Mama Don't Mess with My Threads by The Nigels

Making, Baking, Waking

Making, Baking, Waking by The Funktionals

Scotch Might Kill Me (But You Will First)

Scotch Might Kill Me (But You Will First) by Peaty Petes

It's Saturday Night

Our Job is Done (Time for a Drink, a Smoke, and Swinging)

Our Job is Done (Time for a Drink, a Smoke, and Swinging) by Nico and the Machiavellians

That Summer in Montreal

Hochelaga

High Wire

Everyone Wants Something

Everyone Wants Something by The New Exorcists

Hamlet War an Arse

My Avocado Toast Ain't What it Used to Be (But What Is?)

My Avocado Toast Ain't What it Used to Be (But What Is?) by Cool Breeze

Twenty Years

Sirens

Apparitions

Double Juicer

Urban Campus Life

I Still Love You All, Mostly

I Still Love You All, Mostly by Toys I Don't Trust

Portland Pi(e) Rats are back with "My Baby's Love is Constantly Variable", another beautiful gem!

Portland Pi(e) Rats are back with "My Baby's Love is Constantly Variable", another beautiful gem!

It's here, Fresh Out of Pieland, Portland Pi(e) Rats' first EP for Radio Oumuamua!  This includes long-time fan live favorite "3.14 Reasons," as well as their first two singles for us and a brand new and breathtaking piece, "3:14 on Pie Day"!

It's here, Fresh Out of Pieland, Portland Pi(e) Rats' first EP for Radio Oumuamua! This includes long-time fan live favorite "3.14 Reasons," as well as their first two singles for us and a brand new and breathtaking piece, "3:14 on Pie Day"!

Fresh Out of Pieland by Portland Pi(e) Rats

As we all get ready for next week's release of Portland Pi(e) Rats' new EP, "Fresh Out of Pieland," we bring you "Pi is a Constant."  Next week (week of 4/21) we'll unveil the music video for this and, fingers crossed with forks saved from dinner, music videos for ALL FOUR songs from the EP (which includes their prior and first single for us, "You Can't Make Pie Without Pie," and a recording of longtime live favorite, never before released, "3.14 Reasons", along with the astonishing debut of "3:14 on Pie Day")!

As we all get ready for next week's release of Portland Pi(e) Rats' new EP, "Fresh Out of Pieland," we bring you "Pi is a Constant." Next week (week of 4/21) we'll unveil the music video for this and, fingers crossed with forks saved from dinner, music videos for ALL FOUR songs from the EP (which includes their prior and first single for us, "You Can't Make Pie Without Pie," and a recording of longtime live favorite, never before released, "3.14 Reasons", along with the astonishing debut of "3:14 on Pie Day")!

One More Year

Following the release of our first album, 'Last Light', playing shows had begun to prove difficult due to many health issues within the band and each of us going through life changes which spread us apart.

At the same time, we slowly started to become more of a collaborative songwriting unit when we were able to get together. It was a catch 22. We were getting better at writing music that meant more to us on a personal level, rather than writing about heady topics like ‘riding down the cosmic drain’ – probably because we were facing some difficult challenges in our personal lives.

Liz and Kris in particular had a songwriting chemistry that really started to blossom. Over the course of about 12 months, through sending ideas back and forth, the two of them had written 10 or so songs that explored a general theme of moving on and not giving in to negative thoughts. We reluctantly stepped away from performing live for the most part and spent the next few years slowly recording songs at a painstaking pace, whenever possible, mostly at Tom’s home in Brisbane.

The result is our second, and possibly final long play, ironically called ‘One More Year’. We cut the record down to 8 tracks. Hope you like it. It was a labour of love and much patience. We feel that it’s our first real attempt at showing our take on shoegaze and dreampop – something we sought to do years before even starting the band.

Following the release of our first album, 'Last Light', playing shows had begun to prove difficult due to many health issues within the band and each of us going through life changes which spread us apart.
At the same time, we slowly started to become more of a collaborative songwriting unit when we were able to get together. It was a catch 22. We were getting better at writing music that meant more to us on a personal level, rather than writing about heady topics like ‘riding down the cosmic drain’ – probably because we were facing some difficult challenges in our personal lives.
Liz and Kris in particular had a songwriting chemistry that really started to blossom. Over the course of about 12 months, through sending ideas back and forth, the two of them had written 10 or so songs that explored a general theme of moving on and not giving in to negative thoughts. We reluctantly stepped away from performing live for the most part and spent the next few years slowly recording songs at a painstaking pace, whenever possible, mostly at Tom’s home in Brisbane.
The result is our second, and possibly final long play, ironically called ‘One More Year’. We cut the record down to 8 tracks. Hope you like it. It was a labour of love and much patience. We feel that it’s our first real attempt at showing our take on shoegaze and dreampop – something we sought to do years before even starting the band.

4000 Records

Bookcase (Original Mix)

Bookcase

Falling (Original Mix)

Falling

Pieces of You (Original Mix)

Pieces of You

Glimmer (Original Mix)

Glimmer

Moving Around (Original Mix)

Moving Around

Lavender Sky (Original Mix)

Lavender Sky

Only Yesterday (Original Mix)

Only Yesterday

Fade Away (Original Mix)

Fade Away

Transmission Cinema

Illogistical Resource Dept.

Dan Menapace - Bass, Samplers, Vocals, additional Guitars
Jim Harris - Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bouzuki
Noa Oz - Drums and Percussion

Guest Musicians: 
Forest Huggins - Vocals on Subject to Change. Background vocals on Return of the Gargoyles
L. Michael Wishman Jr. - Vocals on The Great Conspirator. Spoken word in March of the Urchins

Recorded at Tranquility Base - Burlingame, CA and The Locker - San Francisco, CA

Dan Menapace - Bass, Samplers, Vocals, additional Guitars
Jim Harris - Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Bouzuki
Noa Oz - Drums and Percussion
Guest Musicians: 
Forest Huggins - Vocals on Subject to Change. Background vocals on Return of the Gargoyles
L. Michael Wishman Jr. - Vocals on The Great Conspirator. Spoken word in March of the Urchins
Recorded at Tranquility Base - Burlingame, CA and The Locker - San Francisco, CA

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