We can't really expect to list a life's worth of influences, even just limiting the list to music. But: Shades of REM, The Jayhawks, Wire, Rain Parade, The Chameleons, Echo and the Bunnymen, New Order, The Replacements, Hank Williams, Throwing Muses, Pavement, Black Lab, Roxy Music, Coldplay, Nick Drake, Jimmy Buffet, Low, Raffi, Pretenders, Jon Brion, Innocence Mission, Lisa Germano, The Flowerpot Men, Recipe, Radiohead, Otis Redding, Savage Republic, Ivy, Big Star, Eliot Smith, My Bloody Valentine, Joe Henry, Jesus and Mary Chain, Cowboy Junkies, Seventeen Pygmies, Frazier Chorus, uh, and so on...
Sounds Like
Radiohead and the Replacements got on that plane with Buddy Holly and Momzer emerged from the alt.ashes?
Wire, Leonard Cohen and the Jayhawks walk into a bar in Athens, GA?
(Momzer's the punchline)
Roxy Music, Throwing Muses, and Elliot Smith get together for a BBQ?
Garage band: You know what this means. You know what this sounds like. Momzer doesn't sound like that. But they've been playing in each other's garages, and each other's parents' garages, and some garages they rented, and a couple basements of people they barely even knew, and some living rooms when spouses and upstairs neighbors were insanely understanding and no garages were available, for years now. So. Momzer is a garage band.
Indie band: You know what this means. You probably have your own idea of what indie bands sound like. Momzer doesn't sound like that. Or, sometimes they do, a little. It's been a running joke with the band's family and friends for all this time. Mark spent his non-Momzer formative time in a dance/party band, Rex is a Portland punk scene vet, Jonas (the guitarist) likes synth pop and Glen (the keyboard player) likes everything but most of all guitar bands. So all of them draw ideas from each other and sometimes even try to sound like some of the people they listen to and still wind up sounding like Momzer. Years ago they all decided they didn't want to be rock stars. Yet today they're still springing music on anyone who'll listen. 'Cause they love it a lot. So. Momzer is an indie band.
Momzer have been building tunes and taking them apart and surprising each other and catching unsuspecting listeners and even some people who don't know them off-guard for a long time, now. There are blues elements and folk elements and a wild range of pop elements running through their music. They sing about escaping and staying put, parenting and stealing, soured friendships and stupid politics and good books.
They might surprise you, too.
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Momzer
Hey, hope you are doing well......i've got a busy couple of months coming up. I'm touring the UK for the first time in June with Kevin Montgomery, and then right back to New York for a show at the Lincoln Center on the 29th with the Texas Playboys.
I hear my name is originally English.........."All-sup"-meaning everyone raise their glasses and drink up!!! It took me 75 years, but i'm finally making there.
Anyway, here is a video about the tour, and with some footage from last year in Crete at Songs in the Sun-Crete--you can see it on youtube here www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCZkbJM3rg, or by going to my myspace.
Take care, and hope to see you soon.
Tommy
Hello
Thanks for adding us, good luck with the album. Particularly like Henry M, quite taken with the reference to Connemara, It really is the only part of Ireland that looks a bit different, quite strange really. The rest of the country is pretty much just Rain + Green Fields + Cows/sheep. Some tour bus should poster the windows with photographs of cows and fields and drive around the garage for an hour and nobody would be any the wiser. Anyway, If you're ever playing around these parts will definately head along to it.
Cheers
Mike
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