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MARK MALLMAN ALBUM RELEASE + MURDER SHOES
MARK MALLMAN:
There is a line between insanity and genius that indie superhero, Mark Mallman has built a career on. His solid songwriting and wild stage persona have earned hi2015m opening spots on stages with artists as diverse from Cat Power to Green Day to Guided by Voices to name a fraction. Mallmans expansive catalog of infinitely catchy and masterfully orchestrated, boot stomping pop songs has rocked the airwaves of MTV, VH1, NPR, and dozens of major motion picture trailers and video games.
He's been written about by Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, USA Today, Wired, NME, The Toronto Star, Chicago Sun-Times, the Denver Post and so on. Hes a featured contributor to the Music Theory for Dummies series alongside Bob Moog, John Cage and Andrew Bird. He is a composer for film and television, most recently Lion's Gate's zombie romp, Bite Me. He is a pioneer of brainwave EEG/MIDI generated music, as well as the first person in history to webcast a transcontinental non-stop concert.
However, despite this substantial list of credits, he's also been characterized as a madman numerous times, by numerous sources, over the years. Possibly for his Elton Johnny Rotten live show. But most likely Mallman actually is a mad genius for staging four of his Marathon events over the years, including a non-stop, non-sleep 78-hour song with 576-pages of lyrics, all live from his hometownsTurf Club in an endurance exercise much more akin to John Cage than David Blaine. Did the 110 musicians and over 25,000 people who tuned into the internet broadcast during its peak thinkMr. Serious (nickname) was nuts? Hopefully.
Amidst off of this, theres the matter of Mallmans anticipated upcoming album which claims sonic inspiration from John Lennons Double Fantasy and Walls and Bridges albums and from Brian Enos production style in the 1970s.
Hmm, maybe Mallman isnt such a madman after all.
MURDER SHOES:
Sometimes, it really does boil down to who you know. Shortly after Derek Van Gieson first moved to Minneapolis, he met fellow guitarist Chris White through an ex-post-hardcore-punk pal. For a year or so, Derek and Chris stockpiled hundreds of songs. The songs ran the gamut of 60s pop/garage nuggets, gothic folk, chaotic post-punk, 80s funk and R&B, country/western, shoegaze, rockabilly, and surf. It could have been a real hot mess, but Derek brought Tess Weinberg in to the picture and she tied the whole thing together with her sultry cross-genre vocals. They further refined their sound as a trio and just when they thought they had it figured out, bassist Tim Heinlein and drummer Elliot Manthey brought the volume, power, and muscle.
Inside of a year as a quintet, Murder Shoes recorded and released three EPs, a full length album, and went on tour. After many adventures in the studio and live, the band has refined the eclectic nature of their sound, which can now accurately be described as Murder Shoesy.
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LocationIcehouse (View)
2528 Nicollet Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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