"This is one of the first groups whose progress I've been excited to see in twenty years. These guys are ready for the prime time." -Sid Bernstein, industry legend
"What do you get when you put Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Coltrane, and A Tribe Called Quest in a room? Mike Maven and the Goodlife... Sexy. Sexy. Sexy." -Study Breaks Magazine, September 2008
Take the sensual and emotive vocals of R&B crooners like Robin Thicke and combine it with the grit and groove of Bill Withers. Take the modern sound of Maroon 5 and add a little classic Hip Hop. Take the idealist in John Mayer and mesh him with the edge in John Legend. Add the "Maven" in Kanye West, and mix him with Prince. When you have done these things, you will have created the blueprint for the sounds and style of Mike Maven, whose goal is to take modern American music and move it forward.
Mike Maven is a singer-songwriter, bandleader, producer, and multi-instrumentalist with a passion for life and musical knowledge and diversity. Alluding to inspirations that span cultures and decades and working them into a modern popular structure is what drives Maven to create new music. For Mike Maven, being multi-faceted in both personality and approach is a central philosophy, and this shines through in his genre bending blend of styles.
Recently, Mike Maven had a front page feature on Okayplayer.com for his acoustic cover recording of Kanye West's "Amazing." The feature was received with incredible popularity, and the song was posted on numerous other music blogs across the web. With home bases in Austin, New England, New York, and the Midwest, Mike Maven has developing fan bases in the most unexpected places with the most diverse group of fans. In the last two years, Mike Maven has opened for Hanson, Stephen Kellogg, The Wood Brothers, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Zox, and the legendary Sugar Hill Gang. The debut album was released in may of 2006 and has sold over 1000 physical copies nationally in the US and Japan and featured emerging artists that have since made careers of their own. His most recent release, Rules In Love, has attracted the attention of Sid Bernstein, Joe Fletcher Presents, E! Television, and NACA.
Thanks Mike for the pic comment. I enjoy your music. How much would it cost for you to make theme song for my Cartoon Series Team Notion? I'm currently talking to a publishing company about the book. Hopefully everything will go good :D
Waddup MY hooligans!! 2 mixtapes dropping NOVEMBER 5th!!!! and we got lots in store, openin for sean kingston real soon and in 3 weeks openin up for webbie hit a nicca up if you interested ill keep ya updated and also check out the snippets for one o...f the mixtapes called " off the leash Vol 1 " the 2nd jawn " Dhat kidd" snippets will be up in afew days!!! <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.11NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNTYwMjQ*NTcwMTUmcHQ9MTI1NjAyNDQ1OTE4NyZwPTI3MDgxJmQ9bXVzaWNfcGxheWVyX2ZpcnN*X2dlbiZnPTEmb2Y9MA==.gif" /> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://cache.reverbnation.com/widgets/swf/15/widgetPlayer.swf?emailPlaylist=artist_445738&backgroundcolor=EEEEEE&font_color=000000&posted_by=artist_445738&shuffle=&autoPlay=true" height="228" width="434" /><br/><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a4/15/445738/Artist/445738/Artist/link"><img alt="Da%20Novel%20Aka%20Little%20Hooligan" border="0" height="19" src="http://cache.reverbnation.com/widgets/content/15/footer.png" width="434" /></a><br/><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://www.reverbnation.com/widgets/trk/15/artist_445738/artist_445738/t.gif"/><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-05---xoNhTXVc" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-05---xoNhTXVc.gif" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></a> and the 2nd mixtape DHAT KID <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx
Ciao Mike! :) Grazie per la req e per l'amicizia!! Il tuo italiano è ok non ti preoccupare!!! ;) Your music is very very good!!! I love the music!!! Without music, the world is devoid of color!!! Do you like the poetry?? I hope than yes, because you make me happy, if you read and comment my poems in my blog!!! Saluti e abbracci da Palermo!!! ;)
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