The Show is the Rainbow is a music act from Lincoln, NE, A.K.A Darren Keen. For much of 2006, The Show is the Rainbow toured as a three-piece, with Javid Dabestani and Jim Schroeder playing alongside Keen. Currently, Keen is touring as a one-man band. The Show is the Rainbow plays an eclectic mix of rock, electronica and hip-hop inspired by artists such as The Faint

The Faint

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, Frank Zappa

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, Nina Hagen

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, Les Savy Fav

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, Squarepusher

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 and Beck

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. The Show is the Rainbow has gained a national following by means of near constant touring and energetic live shows that focus on audience interaction.

Darren Keen has gained notoriety for his commentary on indie fashion and scene icons such as Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst

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 and Saddle Creek. This is most notable in the song "Up a Creek without a Saddle." Darren Keen also produced his own version of the fake interview from Bright Eyes' own Fevers and Mirrors

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, where he discusses cocaine, trite symbolism and indie scene stereotypes. This was in response to being "called out" in a hidden track that appears on Criteria

Criteria (band)

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's En Garde

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.
He has played alongside bands such as Yip-Yip

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, Broken Spindles

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, The Mae Shi

The Mae Shi

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, Gravy Train!!!!, Beep Beep

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, Cex

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, The Locust

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, Neil Hamburger

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, Girl Talk

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, Tay Zonday

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, Foxy Shazam

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, Tub Ring

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, Cursive

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, Dan Deacon

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, Mindless Self Indulgence

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, and The Faint

The Faint

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Albums

• Radboyz Only!!! (2005 · Tsk Tsk Records)

1. Barking Up the Wrong Tree
2. Keepers of the Sand
3. Up the Creek Without a Saddle
4. The Creepiest Creep in All the Land
5. Medicillin
6. The Creep Returns Home
7. Jailbait Babycake
8. The New Deal
9. Babe Born in Blue Skies

• Gymnasia (2007 · SAF Records)

1. Gothic Cajun
2. You are the Bloodgnome
3. Three
4. I am the Decline
5. Do the Skinny
6. Alls well blah blah blah
7. Safe Art
8. Waiting not Working pt. 1
9. Waiting not Working pt. 2
10. Waiting not Working pt. 3
11. Swatting Flies
12. Gymnasia

• Wet Fist (2009 · Retard Disco (CD)/SAF Records (LP))

1. Made of Cardboard
2. First Little Whisper
3. Roar Means Run
4. Who He Says He Is
5. Wordless Whisper
6. Sperm and Egg
7. Mother and Son
8. Run Fast At the End
9. Come Dry Your Flower
10. They Won't
11. A Bloomed Loop
12. Life Is Good
13. Whisper At Once

• Tickled Pink (2011 · It Are Good)

1. Return To The Microthrone
2. Banjo Solo
3. Know All About It
4. Pay The Cover
5. VAC VIB
6. Don't Vote
7. Brain
8. Brian
9. Support The Artists
10. There's Always More Then There Was Before

Singles & EPs

• Barry Sure Wrote A lot of Songs About the Girls He's Loved (2003 · Suckapunch Records
  Suckapunch Records
  Suckapunch Records is an independent record label based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. The label was operated from around 2002 to 2004 by a group of friends from Lincoln, Omaha, and Grand Island, Nebraska....
  
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• Correcting Dog Behavior Problems Using Dog Radartron (2004 · Suckapunch Records
  Suckapunch Records
  Suckapunch Records is an independent record label based in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. The label was operated from around 2002 to 2004 by a group of friends from Lincoln, Omaha, and Grand Island, Nebraska....
  
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• Homosexual Mowhawk (2005 · It Are Good Records)
• The Perfect Push / Nametag 7" (2007 · Yosada Records)

Splits

• The Show is the Rainbow/Troubled Hubble
  Troubled Hubble
  Troubled Hubble was an indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois.The song "I Love My Canoe", from Penturbia, was a hit at college radio in 2003....
  
   - Baila Con Mi Hija 7" (2003 · Sunday's Best Records)

External links

• The Show is the Rainbow on MySpace
• IT ARE GOOD MySpace
• Tsk Tsk Records
• Lazy-i Interview: October 2003
• Lazy-i Interview: July 2005
• Lazy-i Interview: February 2007
• Retard Disco Records