We submitted our song Rock ‘n Roll Sailor to the 2023 NPR Tiny Desk Contest.
Our entry isn’t up there yet because we were kind of last minute this time round. But it’s on YouTube.
It’s a brand new song we wrote that we were still in the process of learning while preparing our entry. This video is the only place you can hear our new song.
But it was so much fun! We’re excited to throw our hat in the ring. We’re even more excited to record this song for our new album.
Please wish us luck. Cheers!
We filmed our music video for Devil in a Dream Part II on Wednesday, July 6th! And was it a party! Join the Devil’s conga line below.
We had a fantastic time shooting this video as you can see from the evidence below.
Devil Conga line!
the Devil is after Mark
Mark even did a flip
The dress the devil is flashing is Smak Parlour from a while ago but check their digs on Sourpuss Clothing
The Devil dreaming
Filmed at Williamsburg Artist ‘s Parlour
https://www.peerspace.com/pages/listings/6254767feee98f000f561657
Great space, great people (Thank you Ellis!)! Our first foray into peerspace and it was as awesome as it looked!
Part III is being written
Our album, Fancy Hercules is on The Roots Music Report’s Top Blues Rock Album Chart for 2021 and for 2022!
We’re climbing the charts!!!! We’re ahead of ZZ Top & Melissa Etheridge. Pretty cool for an indie band!
We also appeared on two other Roots Music Report Charts for the Week of Jan 1, 2022 - #26 on Top 50 Blues Rock Albums and #24 on Top New York Albums. Fuggedaboutit!
MAKAR’s song Devil in a Dream Part II is in the top 100 songs on NBTMusicRadio out of 4,000 songs!! Wow! 83 baby! What an honor!
Woooooooooooooohoooo!
Read our interview in Lost in the Manor.
We talk specifically about our song Love and Confusion.
“Your latest track is 'Love and Confusion'. Can you share with us the background of its creation and did any unusual things happen during its creation?
Andrea: I know there’s really no resemblance to this but when I started this song I was listening to Love and Happiness by Al Green over and over again. I mean it sounds nothing like that song, it’s just the longing in it. It’s my little Indie nod to Rev. Green. I just love the way he begins the song. He whispers in your ear, sets your soul on edge, talking just to you, telling you a truth. I like the beginning because it feels so quiet and yet so powerful.
What surprises me with this song’s creation is that it alludes to other songs we’ve written and I wasn’t even aware of it at the time. The lyric, “the sky is falling down” connects with another song on the album, Devil Don’t Do Me In lyric – “Do I give into depression or does the sky simply fall on me?” Emotions always threaten to burst through and are frowned upon in the day-to-day grind.
It’s funny, I only see all these intersections with in hindsight. Even in our second album, Funeral Genius in the title track, I wrote “the sky below is always falling a little.” And the sky is that feeling when depression starts to circle and you feel if only you fight hard enough you can hold up the sky and push back the depression. I tend to write about the same things unknowingly – insomnia, depression, anxiety, wanting to belong.
In the recording of Love and Confusion, it became a very different song. It was angrier before (https://youtu.be/sGHqsKfA4bo). I had this desire to play it in a higher octave and in those higher octaves, Mark and I found all these different harmonies I could sing as well as the ooooo in the bridge. I can’t imagine the song without the oooo.
While I like the original version, the final version on the album with all the high / low harmonies and the high energy made the song take off. Add a little timbales and the song transformed.”
Read the rest of the interview below
https://www.lostinthemanor.co.uk/blog/interview/december2021/musosoup/makar
Another awesome review of our single - Love and Confusion - from Indie Dock Music Blog.
“The single 'Love And Confusion' is the main tune from this record and it really has that amazing energy and extraordinary melody that fascinates us with its simplicity and memorability.”
Click on the link below to read the rest of the review
http://indiedockmusicblog.co.uk/?p=9583
If you missed our premiere of our music video for our song Love & Confusion, here it is in all its retro golden glory.
We had a completely different concept for this video which was NOT working and will be regulated to the dust bin. Hahaha don’t you wish you knew. You’ll never know!
This was acted, directed and filmed by MAKAR (well, obviously it was filmed by Mark P.)
DIY, baby.
alien face at the ready
Boooowoohahah!
Zombies Have Rights Too was played on Ruby Slippers Radio Oct 29 2021 Spooktacular show!
Listen below or here
Thank you Carol!!!
Please check out her shows — https://carolbonciut.blogspot.com and https://rubyslippersradio.blogspot.com if you want to be spectacular!