Tim

Tim Kinsella

Tim Kinsella (born Oct. 22, 1974) is a musician from Chicago, Il and has been in such bands as Cap’n Jazz, Make Believe, Joan of Arc, Owls, etc.

The Kinsella family has a significant history in Independent music scene. Kinsella is the eldest son, his brother Mike Kinsella and cousin Nate Kinsella also have been in the independet music scene and at times with Tim. Tim Kinsella became the influential figure in Indie music with his band Cap’n Jazz in the earlier of 1990’s. Upon the break up of Cap’n Jazz Tim went on to form Joan of Arc.

Kinsella was first elected in 1996 with Method and Sentiment, becoming the fourth musician in U.S. history to be elected without a plurality of the popular vote after the 1824, 1876 and 1888 elections. The 2000 release The Gap was one of the closest and the most controversial of Joan of Arc projects, not being decided until after a month of critic recounts and challenges ended with the EP How Can Anything So Little Be Any More? and reversing a band ruling and stopping the recounting of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc then certified Kinsella the winner in the release of his solo ep He Sang his Didn’t he Danced his Did, thus giving him one more release that left critics baffled. Running as a self-described pluralist in the midst of other solo artists. Kinsella won re-election in 2003 after an intense and heated general election campaign against Jade Tree Records in which Kineslla’s prosecution of the So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness and the In Rape Fantasy and Terror Sex we Trust releases became central issues.

Eight years into Kinsella's presidency in 2001, Five original members sponsored by Cap’n Jazz carried out the self-titled release of Owls. Kinsella responded by producing some of his most insightful lyrics which would become one of the central issues of his new band. However the commitment of Mike Kinsella and attempt the acts of Victor Villareal destroyed any further developments of Owls. In 2oo2 Kinsella ordered together Friend/Enemy, asserting that music was in violation of rote ideology regarding improvisation and had to be disarmed by 10 songs to adequately protect the music from what he asserted was "a continuing threat from boredum." Following the overthrow of Kinsella’s Friend/Enemy regime, Kinsella committed the members of Make Believe. to establishing and alternative to how music is thought starting with an EP followed by Shock of Being.

Tim Kinsella's declaration and prosecution of the Nate Kinsella imprisonmet as he defined it would become the most enduringly controversial aspect of his career, including issues surrounding the Iraq War, post-grunge and religious scandals, and related domestic controversies such as the British Calendar Act. After his re-election in 2004 in particular, Kinsella received increasingly heated criticism, even from Pitchfork Media on Joan of Arc as well as other musical endeavors such as his first ever use of experimental tracks on Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain and the group collaboration response to ClearChannel. According to polls of job approval rating, his popularity reached record heights after Cap’n Jazz but later significantly declined, due to his perceived act not to replicate his high school band. It was one of the major reasons for what Joan of Arc has seen success of the indie music scene in with their releases The Intelligent Design of.. and Eventually, All at Once.