MERLIN WALL
MERRIMACK
MESTIZO
METROVOX
MEXICAN CHEERLEADER
MIC TERROR
MASS HYSTERIA
MASTA ACE
MATHEMATICIANS
MATHIEN
About Mathien—the nucleus of the band was formed at Southern Illinois University Carbondale around the magnetic personality of singer/songwriter/guitarist Chris Mathien. Bassist Mike Schiff and drummer Aaron Bouslog were initially drawn to Mathien’s sharply observed lyrics and eclectic musical influences. After signing with Midwest Music Group, relocating to Chicago and releasing their debut “Hello Again” the band took to the road and became a formidable live act selling out venues in Chicago and throughout the Midwest.
MATHLETES
MATT JONES
MATT KELLY
MATT KERR
Matt Kerr plays in Deuce Funk Monsters. DFM has evolved from a funky garage band formed in the late 1990’s to the monster it is today. Combining elements of multiple genres into an organic original mix of danceable tunes. DFM is a hybrid monster! Look out world…
MATT MATEO
MATT ULERY’s ‘LOOM’
MATTER OF FACT
MATTHEW KEATING
MATTHEW WILDER
MATTRESS
MAUDLIN
Maudlin writes songs about the “human experience” and things that go “bump” in the night. Lead by David and Priscilla Priebe, the duo have a long history of contrasting the dark undertones of their music with vibrant and intense performances. Radio’s Barb Abney describes them as “the Pixies married Weezer and their kids had a Sunday Real Estate cover band.”
The group has been hailed by the fridge as long as they’ve been writing songs and have graced hundreds of stages including Summerfest, CMJ, MWMF, The UMS, Mpls Zombie Pub Crawl, the MN State Fair, First Avenue’s main room, Red Gorilla Festival, and a comical appearance at the 2008 Republican National Convention in their hometown of St. Paul. Both of the band’s commercial releases charted for weeks on CMJ stations all over the country, and the group has made countless radio and television appearances.
In the winter of 2014 the band welcomed drummer Whelan Keenan to the group and went into the studio to record a song to be released on an upcoming Donovan tribute album due out in October on Rock The Cause Records. Album will include contributions from Flaming Lips, Sharon Van Etten, etc… http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flaming-lips-sharon-van-etten-to-cover-donovan-on-tribute-album-20150723
The group has been hailed by the fridge as long as they’ve been writing songs and have graced hundreds of stages including Summerfest, CMJ, MWMF, The UMS, Mpls Zombie Pub Crawl, the MN State Fair, First Avenue’s main room, Red Gorilla Festival, and a comical appearance at the 2008 Republican National Convention in their hometown of St. Paul. Both of the band’s commercial releases charted for weeks on CMJ stations all over the country, and the group has made countless radio and television appearances.
In the winter of 2014 the band welcomed drummer Whelan Keenan to the group and went into the studio to record a song to be released on an upcoming Donovan tribute album due out in October on Rock The Cause Records. Album will include contributions from Flaming Lips, Sharon Van Etten, etc… http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flaming-lips-sharon-van-etten-to-cover-donovan-on-tribute-album-20150723
MAUF
MAURICE
MAX GOLDBERG
MAX THE KING
MAXILLA BLUE
Led by the cue of Dj TouchNice, powered by the production of Aeon Grey and anchored by the vocal illustration of Asphate Woodhavet, the Des Moines based trio provides listeners with a dense, immovable, and often somber or “blue” bite of this reality as well as the next. Hailing from an often overlooked and undernourished locale, Maxilla’s creative approach has found it unnecessary to bend to the common trends and popular evolution of rap culture. As a result, the crew’s intepretation of music remains intact amidst failed fads, and followers of the work understand the natural encouragement to bend the enigmatic sound illustration to their own interpretations, adding to the timeless quality of each piece. Each member, an avid vinyl collector of over 10 years and dedicated practitioner of his respective craft, carries the innate desire to create, regardless of the recognition attached. This love affair with the art has resulted in multiple vinyl releases, side projects for the group, and independent works from Aeon Grey, including 12 in, 7in, compact cassettes, instrumental albums and digital efforts. MBC is most revered for charged live performances and original flavor embedded in homage to the classic 1 producer, 1 emcee, 1 Dj equation. The sum was conceived in 2006 and released it’s first full length and self-titled album, in April of 2008 on the home grown Central Standard Records (www.central-standard.com). M.B.C has steadily crushed shows throughout the midwest and mountain regions, including coordinating performances with, and opening for such acts as Typical Cats, Qwel & Maker, Qwazaar, Ghostface Killah, Brother Ali, Mr Lif, Toki Wright, Naughty By Nature, Eyedea and Abilities, Scarub of Living Legends, Sick Jacken, Das Efx, Fashawn, etc, and in every appearance rocks real heads off necks. Maxilla Blue Vol 3 is off to press, with a retail release date set for 2.28.12, and the Des Moines vinyl & CD release show set for Friday, March 2nd @ The Vaudeville Mews. The Maxilla crew, along with a few other like-minded individuals recently and feverishly tossed a few dope vibe and quick hit sessions into another BumRap edition, Median Risers, (5.24.11). If you’re instate, check ZZZ, and other record stores in Des Moines for Maxilla Blue and BumRap material. If you’re local and we’ve sold out somewhere, or you have a record store referral for us, let us know..MBC is independent, and spaces out often and could use the tip-off. Check Co-Op and Ragged Records in Quad Cities area, both in Iowa and Illinois, the Exclusive Company in Osh Kosh, WI, www.hhv.de for all UK and Europe heads and more stores soon. www.galapagos4.com, Amazon and Itunes, Zune, www.fifthelementonline.com all availablle now… other channels coming soon..
MAXIMILIAN EUBANK
MAY QUEEN
MAYOR FOR LIFE
MC FRONTALOT
MDC
MDC (Millions of Dead Cops) is an American punk rock band formed in Austin, Texas in 1981. The band was subsequently based in San Francisco, California, and are currently based in Portland, Oregon. Originally formed as The Stains before changing their name, the band also changed their name to a different initialism of MDC with every new record released. They play fast hardcore punk music espousing far-left sociopolitical ideals, with singer Dave Dictor expressing his animal rights, gay rights, transgender rights, pro-racial equality and anti-capitalist convictions.
MDC eventually released material through ex-Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra’s independent Alternative Tentacleslabel. In the 1990s, Dictor published editorials for the internationally distributed fanzine Maximumrocknroll. MDC’s initial run ended in 1995, and the band spent five years on hiatus before Dictor returned in 2000 with new band members.
ME AND THE DEVIL
Formed in the spring of 2009 Me and the Devil quickly became known for putting on a great live show. Mixing traditional country and blues with there own original material they’ll either make you get up and dance or cry in your beer
ME AND TIM
ME MYSELF AND RHYME
MEA CULPA
MAKERS OF SENSE
MAKESHIFT PRODIGY
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A manifestation of pure expression.
“This is something different. This is the music people live to.” …With heart-wrenching emotion, and epic-anthemic choruses their sound can captivate a listener from the first note to the last. Makeshift Prodigy takes a live show to the next level and thrives on making the listening/viewing experience to be simply one of the best evenings of their fan’s lives and yet an unforgettable & incomparable experience. With energy and emotion Makeshift Prodigy takes the listener to another state of mind by creating music that is not just what everyone else is doing, but what comes from the soul of the musicians to the soul of the listener. Their explosive choruses and laid back, smooth flowing, melodic vocal style make for an intensely beautiful, energetic, and memorable live experience that the listener can take home with them to embrace the powerful message this band has to give…
MAKING MOVIES
Making Movies is a psychedelic Panamanian band that makes American music with an asterisk: because Making Movies’ sound encompasses the entirety of the Americas. It’s through this broader perspective that Making Movies crunches classic rock into Latin American rhythms — African-derived percussion and styles like rumba, merengue, mambo and cumbia — in a way that feels oddly familiar, yet delivers the invigorating chills of hearing something singularly special.
Over the course of their career, the quartet has turned heads as a Tiny Desk newcomer (with “A La Deriva”), a voice for immigrant rights (with “I Am Another You” which reached #3 on Billboard’s Latin Pop Album chart), and as a co-writer alongside salsa icon Rubén Blades (with Latin GRAMMY nominated song “No Te Calles”).
Making Movies has toured extensively, appearing with the likes of Arcade Fire, Rubén Blades, Los Lobos, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Bomba Estereo, Galactic, Flor De Toloache, and Thievery Corporation. The band’s fourth album XOPA was just released on L.A.-based label Cósmica Artists.
MALADICTO
MALAS
Forged in 2000, MALAS have been conjuring their brand of skull thrashing METAL. Members from the 1990’s bands MALDICION & LORD BLASPHEMER have maintained the bone crushing Chicago sound influenced by CELTIC FROST, SLAYER, SODOM, etc. “Their live show is an assault to the senses. Blasting & thrashing a fierce attack of death metal”. In 2004, they released a three song sampler which was the catalyst to the full length cd titled “Conquest.” The 2005 release was done with three Indie labels, Sempiternal Productions, Utterly Somber Creations and MALAS’ own Maldito Records. The second demo titled “King of Thieves” was released in 2010. Our second full length release, “Path to Holocaust”, blisters its way through Hell and back. This record was made possible by the efforts of Utterly Somber Creations and Maldito Records. “Path to Holocaust” is available now! We invite you to check out our live shows, music and website. If you would like to book the band for a show or purchase a cd or shirts, please contact us. email: maldicion@msn.com
MALDROID
MALIKON
MAMA’S LOVE
MAMBA NEGRA
MAN/DROID
MANBIRDBELLY
manbirdbelly is comprised of five friends, living too far away from each other, making music on a regular schedule.
MANIC SEWING CIRCLE
MANSIONS
MANTIK RITUAL
MANUFRAQTURE
MANYOURHORSE
MAPS AND ATLASES
MAR CARIBE
MARA
We are a metal/post-hardcore/experimental band from the southside of Chicago. Formed in the summer of 08, with Fern, Walter, Stevematt and Jimmy. Recently Stevematt left the band so we then added Guerro to take over. Then we decided to add Paco to do keys/synths. With a new line up we are pretty much branching off into other genres. Expect something way different but still brutal!!
MARBIN
MARBIN is a progressive jazz-rock band based in Chicago, IL, with a unique story that stands out in today’s music world. With a do-it-yourself approach, Marbin started touring extensively in 2011, bringing their original instrumental music to every part of the United States. Through word of mouth, Marbin has gained hundreds of thousands of devoted fans all over the world and has sold tens of thousands of albums. Marbin has released eight albums: Marbin (2009), Breaking the Cycle (2011), Last Chapter of Dreaming (2013), The Third Set (2014), Aggressive Hippies (2015), Goatman and the House of the Dead(2016), Israeli Jazz (2018), and Strong Thing (2019). Marbin regularly plays in clubs all over the US and in jam and jazz festivals around the world.
MARDUK
An unswerving commitment to blasphemy and extremity combined with a relentless touring schedule and a steady stream of recordings has helped establish Sweden’s Marduk as one of the better-known bands on the Scandinavian black metal scene. They began as more of a standard death metal band with a black metal influence, but have come to be known for their style of extreme black metal, which tends to focus on themes of warfare and anti-Christian sentiment and is characterized by relentlessly fast drumming and blurred walls of guitar.
MARGARET MURPHY
Currently a senior at Chicago State University majoring in Jazz Piano and Classical Voice, Margaret, affectionately known as “M & M” to her musical family, has been singing professionally throughout the United States and Europe for over twenty-five years. She developed her unique vocal style and showmanship under the tutelage of world renown tenor saxophonist Von Freeman with whom she shared the stage at the Taste of Chicago, The Chicago Jazz Festival, Andy’s, Pete Miller’s, Pops, The Jazz Showcase, and many other venues.