Seattle's Massy Ferguson has taken their raucous rock americana to the far reaches of the globe. In the past three years, the four-piece band has played shows in Melbourne, Australia, Munich, Germany and Puerto Pinasco, Mexico, to name just a few destinations.
Despite this penchant for the international, Massy Ferguson remains local to the bone, a fixture on the burgeoning Seattle roots music scene that has spawned the likes of Brandi Carlisle and The Fleet Foxes. With an approach that is decidedly more rock than the aforementioned groups, Massy Ferguson combines growling vocals with epic guitar riffs and banging piano to create a sound that is equally burly and soulful. Tracing their influences to bands like The Jayhawks, The Hold Steady and Bruce Springsteen, the group plays its own brand of blue-collar twang rock.
In 2008, the Massy Ferguson released its debut full-length album, Cold Equations, which garnered rave reviews nationally despite the fact that it was independently released without the aid of a label. Music tastemaker Bruce Warren of WXPN Radio in Philadelphia made Massy Ferguson his Download of the Day, calling their debut full-length "an impressive record." The album also made waves in Seattle, getting serious spins on Seattle's highly influential non-comm station KEXP Radio and commercial station KMTT "The Mountain." The album helped the band put themselves on the radar as far as press. Massy Ferguson was named a 2009 Artist to Watch by Skope Magazine in fall of 2009. In November of 2009, they were featured in a short documentary film about KEXP for MTV.com.
Additionally, the band has experienced great success with live shows, packing venues in the Pacific Northwest. They have headlined rooms ranging from Neumos to The Tractor to the Sunset Tavern in Seattle. They have opened for a number of national and international touring acts as well. In the last two years alone, Massy Ferguson has opened for members of Phish and the Grateful Dead, The Bottle Rockets, Fastball, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers and Micky and the Motorcars, among others.
The band recently signed a record deal with Seattle' Spark and Shine Records and are working on their next album which will be released in summer of 2010. Their second-album is much anticipated and should bring the band into greater prominence in Seattle as well as in far-off locations.
MF Live in Europe! Gun Control
Video credits: Josh Westfall
MF live in Europe (Cold Equations)
Video credits: Josh Westfall
Video of the band playing "Bent" at the High Dive!
definitely!!!! ok my name is david, here is my phone number 89 16 66 09. Just call me anytime and I'll tell the other guys so we can go drink somewhere cool!
Damn! well that's ok, next time we'll play in san jose. Nevertheless, we really love your band and it would be an honor for us to open for you in any of the shows you have here. So if that's possible we'd love to play with you anywhere and of course you wouldn't have to pay us anything. So yeah, that'd be great and if you can't do that either that's ok too, we'll still go to your shows haha. Pura vida!
Hey guys we´ve seen that you are coming to Costa Rica, are you still interested in playing with us, we could book a concert in San Jose or we could go to Jaco or a place the you will be playing... Let us know if you are interested! Zopilot!
hey Whats up!!? we're just wondering if you already know when you are coming to Costa Rica, cause we would like to book the place, because its really hard to get a place to play in the holidays.
hey man.. i'll try to make it out on the 20th! I'm playing with Jay Nash at Nectar on the 29th.... should be a really fun show and he's a great artist.... come out if you're not busy! Alright, i'll do my best to get out to the tractor this weekend! see ya soon
hey it's been way too long ethan how are you??!! I'm planning on coming up there september/october hope i can catch a show you guys need to make a trip to texas!!
Greetings from the ocean, where I have dropped out to create this living, breathing novel of music or this real-life song of fiction, or something like art from nothing but time on my hands. Anyhow, put me down for the Tractor. I need a rocking dose of Massy proportions to celebrate the end of the novel. Check it out and come on into the maze of Post P-I creativity . . . AMBIII
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