Music Videos | Directory | Search | Top Artists | Shows | Music Forums | Music Classifieds | Artist Signup 

Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band)
Indie / Powerpop / Soul

"DAYLIGHT KISSING NIGHT: back in stock @ Amazon"

RESEDA, California
United States

Profile Views:  65756




Last Login:  7/9/2008
View My: Pics | Videos

   Contacting Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band)

 MySpace URL: 
  http://www.myspace.com/adammarsland  

   Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band): General Info
Member Since11/7/2004
Band Websiteadammarsland.com
Band MembersBelow: Video 1: Adam Marsland's Chaos Band with Alan Boyd and Al Jardine of the Beach Boys performing "Califonia Saga/California" outside Sacramento in September 2005 (audience video). Videos 2 and 3: From the "Songs of Dennis and Carl Wilson tour" Adam Marsland's Chaos Band performs "Angel Come Home" and "River Song" onstage at the Blue Bird, Bloomington, Indiana -- May 26th, 2006 (video courtesy of Jeff Green)

Adam Marsland -- Vocals, keys, guitars

Evie Sands -- Vocals, guitars

John Perry -- Vocals, keys

Kurt Medlin -- Drums

Teresa Cowles -- vocals, bass

Special guest on the Dennis and Carl Wilson tour: Alan Boyd -- vocals, keyboards

InfluencesWe like all the great "h" bands: Brian Whilson, Dennis Whilson, Ben Fholds, Shtevie Wonder, Ehlton John, John Chale, Fhoo Fighters, Sex Phistols, Frank Bhlack, Rhaspberries, Joe Jhackson, Elvis Costelloh, Suphergrass, Aihmee Mann, Bhig Star, Rhyan Adams, Whilco, Calexicoh, The Shhakers, The Nhegro Problem, Lhisting Ship, Ivyh, The Lhyres, The Whaking Hours, The Captain & Tennhille, Al Ghreen, Billy Jhoel, Shonen Knhife, Supertramph, Hhole, Bheach Boys

we also like: The New Christy Minstrels, Lou Christie, Christy from the Space Ghost Band, Chris deBurgh, The Holyridge Strings, Accept, Four Jacks and a Jill, Bobby "Boris" Pickett, The Sugar Hill Gang, Suicide, The Sandpipers, John Oates (only his solo stuff), Butt Trumpet, Andrew Ridgeley (only his solo stuff), Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, Danny Bonaduce, Odin, Burl Ives, Donnie Iris & The Cruisers, Stephen Bishop & The Bishettes, Cole Porter, Cole Muffler, Alice Cooper (only his solo stuff), The Five Satins, Duke Jupiter, M.C. Hammer, Cole Porter, Chico Marx (only his solo stuff), Tubeway Army, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Andy Kim, Kim Fowley, Kim Wilde, Kimberly Rew, Kim Fox, l'il Kim, Kim Carnes, Chili Con Carne, kindercore, kiss or kill, Kissimee Florida, Bono, Sonny Bono (only his solo stuff), Atilla, Michael J. Fox, Ian Gomm, Johann Sebastian Bach, Marty Robbins, ABBA, Astrud Gilberto with Stan Getz, Kiki Dee, Sham 69, Rosa Luxembourg, The Mike Curb Congregation, The Hot Asian Chick That Plays Cello, Crow T. Robot, Z.Z. Hill, Alicia Bridges, Paper Lace, Don Ho, X-Ray Spex, Hasil Adkins, The Rezillos, Tetsu Yamaguchi, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs, The Texas Tornados, black forest mochas at Coffee Bean, Bill Maher, Carly Simon, Benny Mardones, Robbie Rist and Paul Pope with the Tower of Light Beer Rhythm Section, Esquivel, Martha and the Muffins, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Dr. Teeth & Electric Mayhem, Kermit The Frog (only his solo stuff), Klark Kent, Shawn Cassidy, Jack Casady, Cashman & West, Brewer & Shipley, John Ford Coley (only his solo stuff), Kenny Loggins & Steve Perry, Anton Barbeau, Adrienne Barbeau, Sneaker, Roxette, Gallery, Paranoid Lovesick, The Band That Played California Lady, 13th Floor Elevators, John Ashcroft, Pere Ubu, Pink Lady, Garrison Keillor, David Geddes, GWAR, Up With People, Lassie

Sounds Likebenfolds, toddrundgren, joejackson, cardiganz, fountainsofwayne, elviscostello, fleetwood mac, a hangover, a ten-ton Mack truck being dropped from Sears Tower into Lake Michigan, the sound a flatulent duck makes when shot
Record LabelKarma Frog
Type of LabelIndie





   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 12 2008 9:00P
The Buccaneer Sierra Madre, California
Jul 18 2008 9:00P
Brennan’s Pub Marina Del Rey, California
Jul 20 2008 8:00P
The Sugar Mill Tarzana, California
Jul 26 2008 9:00P
True Love Coffeehouse Sacramento, California
Jul 27 2008 8:00P
Peri’s Fairfax, California
Jul 28 2008 8:00P
The Elbo Room San Francisco, California
Jul 29 2008 9:00P
Johnny B’s Medford, Oregon
Jul 30 2008 7:00P
Mon Ami Vancouver, Washington
Jul 31 2008 8:00P
Salvador Molly’s Portland, Oregon
Aug 1 2008 10:45P
Skylark Cafe Seattle, Washington
Aug 2 2008 7:00P
Kona Kai Coffee Kent, Washington
Aug 3 2008 9:30P
East End Portland, Oregon
Aug 4 2008 8:00P
House Party (tentative) Eugene, Oregon
Aug 6 2008 9:00P
Burt’s Tiki Lounge Salt Lake City, Utah
Aug 7 2008 6:00P
Mo’s Salt Lake City, Utah
Aug 10 2008 9:00P
Nallen’s Denver, Colorado
Aug 13 2008 10:00P
The Waiting Room Omaha, Nebraska
Aug 14 2008 8:00P
The Record Bar Kansas City, Missouri
Aug 20 2008 9:00P
Birdy’s Bar and Grill Indianapolis, Indiana
Aug 21 2008 8:00P
Dirty Jack’s Cincinnati, Ohio
Aug 22 2008 9:00P
Andyman’s Tree House Columbus, Ohio
Aug 23 2008 9:00P
Winchester Tavern Lakewood (Cleveland), Ohio
Aug 27 2008 8:00P
Cyber Cafe West Binghamton, New York
Aug 29 2008 7:45P
The Living Room New York, New York
Sep 1 2008 8:00P
Labor Day Picnic Greene, New York
Sep 8 2008 7:00P
Dunn Brothers Houston, Texas
Sep 9 2008 9:00P
The Hole In The Wall Austin, Texas
Sep 10 2008 10:00P
City Tavern Dallas, Texas
Sep 12 2008 9:00P
O’Malleys On Fourth Tucson, Arizona
Sep 17 2008 8:00P
The Sugar Mill Tarzana, California
Oct 11 2008 9:00P
The Buccaneer Sierra Madre, California

Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band)'s Latest Blog Entry  [Subscribe to this Blog]

CD collection sale Part II  (view more)

Jerry Cole Has Passed Away  (view more)

selling my CD collection  (view more)

7 Tony nominations for Stew ’n’ Heidi!  (view more)

the big blog (touring, new studio album)  (view more)

[View All Blog Entries]

   About Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band)

Top 40 on Amazon!

"The best power pop album I've heard this year" -- Paste Magazine

click on the cover to order through amazon

10 years, 20 songs (with 7 newly recorded or reworked tracks), fully remastered, full color artwork and lyrics...for $6.

Also available through: Amazon UK, Amazon Japan, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and retail outlets across the U.S. and internationally.


AMCB'S MY SPACE GROUND RULES:

We NEVER randomly send friend requests to people. We ALWAYS e-mail first (unless we already know you personally).
We listen to every band and check out every profile that friends us. We add almost every individual person that sends us a friend request, but WE REALLY HATE FRIENDBOT. If we think you're auto-spamming us we probably won't add you even if we like you. We want to keep our myspace a place for our actual fans and friends and people that care about us and we, them. We don't want 10,000 friends that we'll never see or hear from again.

We love making friends with bands...real friends. Bands, before you send us a friend request, shoot us an e-mail and let us know you care! :)

SEMI-OFFICIAL BAND BIO, QUOTE-UNQUOTE:

Recently described in SPIN magazine as "a high-energy cross between Brian Wilson, Paul Stanley, and Elton John,” Adam Marsland's pop adventurism, brash vulnerability and stubborn idealism have not earned him the record sales of his L.A. contemporaries Weezer (with whom he once shared rehearsal space) or the cult following of Wondermints or The Negro Problem (both of whom he has performed with), but he has had one of the more prolific and intriguing music careers of the last 10 years.

A talented singer, arranger, performer, multi-instrumentalist and "one of the most gifted songwriters to come out of the west coast in a long time" (Time Out-NY), Marsland has pulled off rock, punk, baroque pop, soul and alt-country through the course of seven albums and 22 tours. When his label collapsed on the week of the release of his band's third CD, he went totally underground, touring alone for 2 1/2 years straight and selling thousands of albums out of the back of a 1994 Toyota Tercel. More recently, thanks to the advent of myspace, a jaw-dropping band that includes a bonafide pop legend, and a tour-de-force live album of similarly overlooked but worthy Beach Boys songs, Marsland's smartass-punk-meets-music-geek songs and persona have attracted a new audience.

This writer of songs "almost too literate and catchy for mass consumption" (All Music Guide), scored a local hit at age 17 in upstate New York before moving to California to found the high-octane pop-punk band Cockeyed Ghost with current drummer Kurt Medlin. The band signed to Rykodisc-distributed indie Big Deal in 1996 and made two albums, KEEP YOURSELF AMUSED and NEVEREST, appeared with Fastball, Third Eye Blind and Shonen Knife, graced the cover of the L.A. Weekly and even appeared in an NBC-TV movie. A change in membership and a move toward emotional, baroque pop resulted in 1999's THE SCAPEGOAT FACTORY, which The New York Press named album of the year. It also coincided with Big Deal going bankrupt, killing momentum for the band.

Disgusted with the music industry, Marsland fought for and won back the rights to his albums and then pressed on with Cockeyed Ghost's last and finest album, LUDLOW 6:18, a desert rock film noir which came out in May 2001. At first ignored and poorly distributed, Adam hit the road in a series of "One Man, One Car, One Guitar" tours, logging 350 shows and 75,000 miles in the next two years, documented on his 2002 live album 232 DAYS ON THE ROAD. He also found time to contribute keyboards and vocals to L.A. singer/songwriter (now "Passing Strange" Broadway playwright) Stew and The Negro Problem on tours with Counting Crows and John Mayer and on the highly acclaimed albums Joys and Concerns and The Naked Dutch Painter. The LUDLOW 6:18 CD eventually garnered a small, but devoted following.

Returning back to Los Angeles after 2 1/2 years of constant touring, Adam formed an unlikely -- but extremely satisfying -- alliance with the similarly unpredictable and sometimes underappreciated ' soul chanteuse Evie Sands (writer of songs for Barbra Streisand and Beck and the original voice of "Angel of the Morning," among many other accomplishments). Along with Cockeyed Ghost alumni Kurt Medlin and Severo and keyboardist John Perry, they cut Adam's solo studio debut YOU DON'T KNOW ME, which was released in 2004 and was the first of Adam's records to garner substantial commercial radio play, but once again fate intervened as Adam was soon after sidelined for several months with a mysterious illness (probably a misdiagnosed outer ear infection) that affected his hearing and made performing difficult.

By mid-2005 he had recovered enough that Adam Marsland's Chaos Band -- with Dragster Barbie bassist Teresa Cowles replacing Severo, who left to join The Smithereens – began a rigorous playing schedule and stunned audiences with its NRBQ-like versatility, whipping out covers by Dead Kennedys and the O’Jays with equal panache, and playing as many as 60 songs in one night. They then mounted an ambitious tribute to Beach Boys Carl and Dennis Wilson with archivist Alan Boyd. This drew the attention of Beach Boy Al Jardine, who appeared with the band at a few shows that year.

Grammy-award winning engineer Mark Linett (Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE)recorded the band's June 24, 2006 performance for the LONG PROMISED ROAD: SONGS OF DENNIS AND CARL WILSON – LIVE album, which was released over the internet in December and hit record stores March 13, 2007. The album, which showcased the band's harmonic and instrumental versatility and was released with few studio overdubs, was a steady seller throughout the year and even made the short list for a Grammy nomination.

During the last half of 2007 Adam became more active as a session player and sideman (which besides the aforementioned Negro Problem and Wondermints have included Jeff Merchant, Kjehl Johnansen, Martin Luther Lennon, Kaz Murphy, Spooky Pie and, posthumously, Badfinger vocalist Pete Ham) including producing the debut CD by soul singer Norman Kelsey and arranging vocals for L.A. alt-country songwriter Anny Celsi's second album.

Most recently, he played guitar and keyboards side by side in studio and onstage with Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers Hal Blaine and Don Randi and legendary guitarist Jerry Cole in recording sessions recreating '60s hits they originally played on for the soundtrack of the upcoming Shawn Bryant-produced documentary Makaha. His music began to be used more frequently in TV and film, including for the Fall 2007 season MTV Road Rules, Lisa Williams: Life Among The Dead, Scott Baio Is 46 And Pregnant as well as the Sci-Fi channel original film The Headless Horseman. An instrumental version of his song "Burning Me Out" was used as the end theme for I Know My Kid's A Star on VH-1.

In 2008 Adam completed his return to full-time music-making with a 20 track album called "Daylight Kissing Night - Adam Marsland's Greatest Hits," released on March 18, 2008. With a artist-breaking $5.99 list price and several new recordings included, the album was his first marketed exclusively to the retail chain since his Big Deal day, and was the subject of an intense word-of-mouth campaign among Adam's fan base. The CD immediately sold out across the U.S. and reached 17 on Amazon's rock chart. A more traditional promotional campaign is slotted for the summer. Writing and rehearsals are also underway for a new studio album, his first in four years.

Adam Marsland's new 20-song, $5.99 compilation (fully remastered with 7 newly recorded or reworked songs, full color artwor and lyrics) DAYLIGHT KISSING NIGHT: ADAM MARSLAND'S GREATEST HITS is available through Amazon, Amazon UK, Amazon Japan, Borders, Barnes & Noble, and retail outlets across the U.S. and internationally


   Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band)'s Friend Space (Top 12)
Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band) has 2853 friends.
 Ariana 


 Erin 


 Thom Bone 


 kateri 


 The Facets 


 Monica 


 Extra 


 Jeff Celentano 


 Milkshake Jones 


 The Boss Martians 


 In Support of Living 


 Matt 





Adam Marsland (+ His Chaos Band)'s Friends Comments
Displaying 50 of 1651 comments  ( View All | Add Comment )
Fido





Jul 8 2008 11:04 PM

Hey Adam! Thanx for the props--The GLMS loves you too!
Derek





Jul 8 2008 9:11 PM

The Living Room - Aug 29..I am so there! Thanx for coming out this way!
Sweet Melissa





Jul 8 2008 6:59 PM

Thanks for the comment :D

When is you Nashville date? Didn't see it on the list??
Jesse Ashfield





Jul 8 2008 1:43 AM

Hello Adam,
Everything OK?

There are some new songs online. You're welcome to check them out! ;)

Grtz Jesse
WIN TIX 2 SEE COLDPLAY - SEE BLOG FOR DETAILS!!





Jul 6 2008 11:17 PM

Hey Adam!
I have a huge favor to ask... We have a shot at opening for Coldplay in Philly. Please help us out by taking a moment to vote!!
Thanks so much,
John
..
Lemanis





Jul 6 2008 3:31 PM

Hello
How's things? You got the POB re-issue yet? I haven't, but will soon, my old record is very worn.... What's on the Bamboo disc? Gonna look that up now actually.
Hope you're well
Phil
AMY





Jul 4 2008 3:31 PM


Glitter Graphics & Comments
MANDI





Jul 4 2008 12:04 PM

zwani.com myspace graphic comments
Myspace 4th of July Comments & Graphics
Clara's Gallery





Jul 4 2008 10:26 AM

HAPPY 4th !!! Hope you "feel" the fireworks! Looking forward to seeing you and your band in Marina del Rey in July!
Hal Blaine





Jul 3 2008 7:39 PM

HEY ADAM! GREAT SHOW. YOU'RE AWESOME. HAL LOVED IT.
Drew





Jul 3 2008 10:51 AM

wow! that would be so great. I'm central Virginia, but I would definitely go pretty much anywhere hours around here to catch a show.
you guys are sounding great, and I'd love to bring some of my friends to see ya live!
Kelly





Jul 2 2008 8:28 PM

I am going to try to make your New York show - I've been meaning to see you here in LA for like 2 years, and I've been a tool about it.
I'm moving back to Jersey though next week - so I'm gonna try to make it to the Living Room!
ShawnB





Jul 2 2008 7:55 PM

Adam..Thank you for your great playing and singing w/Hal/Don/Chuck and friends! We will take the Wrecking Crew boys out for some dates this fall for sure...Also, thank you so much for introducing me to three Marilyn,Ginger and Diane...I've had a crush on them for over thirty years! You are the true "King of Pop"...see you in July!
KISS Amy





Jul 2 2008 6:38 PM

Hi Adam,

How are you?

Have a happy 4th of July...

july4
Drew





Jul 2 2008 2:01 PM

hey guys. hope things are going really well. when are you going to break away and stage a few shows on the east coast? I would love to see you out here.
we miss that sound!
lauree





Jul 1 2008 1:18 PM

thanks for the birthday wishes, Adam!

I wish you safe travels on tour!
Ms. B





Jun 30 2008 8:22 PM


MUAH!


DIGGY-KAT - back like a howling mad bat cat!





Jun 30 2008 6:01 PM

hiya T! thanx for replying so quickly! i finally came out from recording, starting recording a song for the new Vufcup cd and it's about 95% complete now, probably finish up that little 5% tomorrow and who knows, maybe start recording another song? maybe!
of course, i always think of the Chaos band, always turning people onto the tunes, infact just the other day a friend of mine had his ipod going and said "i'm listening to this really great band! called Cockeyed Ghost!" and i told him he'd have to come out to one of the shows!
but yes, one of these days we'll definitely have to play a show together, that would be amazing!
love y'all! keep up the fantastic work!!!!

Diggy
DIGGY-KAT - back like a howling mad bat cat!





Jun 30 2008 2:13 PM

hiya Adam + co.! how is everything?!?
the headlining band we were supposed to play with this Thursday at Mai's Cafe in Ventura couldn't make it and they can't find another band yet and i instantly thought of all of you.
the slot is for 10pm to pretty much whenever.
i know this is last moment so if you can't make it totally understandable, if you can, that'd be awesome as well =)
thank you so so so much!

Diggy
GIBBY





Jun 29 2008 1:56 PM

Thanks for posting on my MySpace page. I'm a long-time Beach Boys fan (since '61). Went to Hawthorne High (Class of '67). My oldest brother was good friends w/ Denny. Been catching Brian's shows whenever I can. Saw him @ the Roxy: Royce Hall, UCLA; Hollywood Bow