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
We put together a little video for The Country Song, an awesome ditty written by Vicente Viray!
This is an oldie off our first album 99 Cent Dreams.
Yeehaw!
So WRFA, WRFA!!!!
Our songs have been played on WRFA 90 times since December 2021.
They love us, they really love us.
Eventually, I’ll breakdown which songs were played the most but wow.
WRFA, if you’re reading this, anytime anywhere we’ll play for you!
When we get a little down, we just think WRFA loves us and we love them.
Our music video for I’m Glad is here!
This song is about the moms. Mark lost his mom and I lost mine all too recently.
My mom, Margaret DeAngelis, underwent brain surgery to remove a congenital cyst growing and pressing on her brain 22 odd years ago. After the surgery she was better overnight, it was amazing. This song was about how relieved we were she was ok. She had about 15-16 good years but then the damage from the cyst caused her supranuclear palsy and we finally lost her on June 13, 2021.
Mark’s mom, Nancy Purnell, passed away from lung cancer in October 2018. She was an artist and art teacher up until the end of her life. You can read about one of her posthumously shows here.
Filmed on the rooftop of our building. This song is from our latest album Fancy Hercules.
We did a music video for America Where Are You?
Sorrow and horror equally intertwined in our hearts.
This song is from our second album, Funeral Genius.
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!
We received a fantastic review of our song I’m Alright on Music Existence:
It’s hard to pick a fav section in this review. But we think it’s this:
“Knowing that they have the street credit, the indie rock darlings of the world, I rooted for Makar’s overall essence. It’s like walking into a vintage store, all the yellows, the greens, the rust colors – and feeling an overwhelming sense of sunshine and love. They somehow embody this punk world but let in shards of light and optimism. If they were a periodical, Makar would be the homemade kind you used to grab on your way out of the downtown record stores. Someone took the time to make a run to Kinkos and make those music rags.”
You can read the rest of the review here —
https://musicexistence.com/blog/2022/01/28/single-review-makar-im-alright-premiere/
And you can check out the video for I’m Alright below