Next Best Records (614) 256-9996 www.nextbestrecords.com THE KNIGHTS OF INFINITE RESIGNATION “PARIS HILTON & CAPTAIN BEEFHEART” SINGLE Release Date: July 24, 2007 Middle Culture.  It’s not the stuff dreams are made of, but it is the subject matter of “Paris Hilton & Captain Beefheart,” the new single by Columbus, Ohio’s Knights of Infinite Resignation.  Truth be told, maybe it’s not about Middle Culture, but we thought it sounded good (for a few moments). Anyway, the Paris Hilton & Captain Beefheart single is the Knights’ follow up to their iTunes only EP, Peace and Rest, which was released in April and represented the first recorded output distributed for public consumption during the five years of the band’s existence.  Written by guitarist Ronnie Wallace, the song “Paris Hilton & Captain Beefheart” does, in fact, explore the distances between high art and low culture, albeit in a sort of 21st Century Jan & Dean way.  “Were not a band that’s afraid of its sense of humor,” singer Lee Wadlinger says.   “The Electric Eels did TV theme songs.  The Velvet Underground released that version of ‘Temptation Inside Your Heart’ with those vocal overdubs left in.  Joe Strummer appeared on South Park.  You don’t have to be perpetually serious.” Inspired by a picture that’s been floating around the internet of Hilton holding a copy of Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica album (the band first found it on WFMU’s blog and still argues about its authenticity), “Paris Hilton & Captain Beefheart” probably represents the first time the title’s protagonists, Guided By Voices, and NEU! have all been mentioned in the same song.  “It isn’t namedropping, though,” Wallace says.  “It’s really just me using cultural touchstones to poke fun at elitism in its various forms.  We worry too much about what other people think.  If everybody – indie rockers, people who watch the E! channel, people who appear on the E! channel, people who appear on C-SPAN – would relax and sit down and talk to each other, we could probably get to work on the important stuff.” The second song on the single, “Ice Cream Truck,” is the band’s take on the track off Pere Ubu’s Cloudland album.  “That was my idea,” Wadlinger says.  “When I was in high school, I had three tapes in my car.  Lou Reed’ s Coney Island Baby, Ubu’s Cloudland, and a copy of the Children’s Crusade album.  For better or for worse, that album is in a sense ingrained in my psyche, and I’m from Cleveland, so I figure we’d better represent.  Plus, I like the irony of us doing a cover of a song that says, ‘There’s too much music.’” “Cricket The Bug,” the single’s final track, is also written by Wallace.  Pressed for comment, Wallace simply says, “It’s a pretty straightforward song.  Lee says he likes how the vocals sound like Prisonshake, but I don’t really see it.” The “Paris Hilton & Captain Beefheart” single will be available via nextbestrecords.com and assorted independent record stores, as well as iTunes, Napster, eMusic, and other digital retailers. For more information on the Knights, check: www.nextbestrecords.com/knights.html www.myspace.com/theknightsofinfiniteresignation