Patrick Callan- guitar,vocals
Collaborators- Claude Culotta, David Hutner, D. Sykes, Turn Back Now!, Andrew Bizek, Disposition, Kristel Porter,Claire Johnson, Mike Ballard, Rob Oesterlin, The Chelsea Boys, The Hunger Bone, Warsame Awale, and many others in the Blanket Statement Records family.
Influences
the holdsteady, against me, robert johnson, velvet underground, John Irving, Malcolm X
Sounds Like
Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb,and Derick Drooker's illustrations put to music
Patrick Callan was born in Millwaukee, Wisconson in 1986. He spent his childhood in a rural farming community an hour outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
He began playing guitar and writing songs at 9 years old.
In 1998, Patrick's family relocated to Lino Lakes, Minnesota, a suburb outside of the twin cities. He was introduced to Punk Rock and started his first 2 bands, Plush Sunday and the Euroes.
In 2004, he relocated to Minneapolis and teamed up with Claude Culotta to form Flynn Effect, and later Turn Back Now! and to put together what is now Blanket statement records.
In May of 2009, Patrick released his first full length studio record "Tales of a Folk Punk Nothing." Which has been well received by fans and critics alike.
In August of 2009 he left Blanket Statement Records to join Ant-Civ Records, a Twin Cities Based Non-Profit Collectively run record label.
The Anti-Civ Rerelease of "Tales of a Folk punk nothing" will be out in May of 2010 along with a collection of new material called "Atomic Mind" EP.
A currently untitled double disc concept Album is also in the works and due out December 12,2012.
Come grab an advanced copy of the new disc from my fuzzgrunge noisepop band The Sextons, and as always bands, let me know how I can help out with your next tasty record!
This Friday, we are debuting a project called Sonic Transformations. Every month or so we will present a new audio-visual performance based on a different theme/story. We will be collaborating with artists and other creative musicians along the way so let us know if you have something you'd want to bring into this project.
The first in the series is called "AN OBJECT TO CRAVE". Live music and visuals based on a short story about life, love, loss, fantasy, obsession and death.
Another group of mine, The Magnetrons, which plays an exciting and innovative Livetronica set (i.e. STS9, Disco Biscuits, The Histronic) will also be playing. It will be a musical adventure, and we hope that you can come participate :)
Here's the info:
Blood Root Mother - "An Object to Crave" w/ The Magnetrons & Thought Thieves Friday, October 16th Station 4 201 E 4th St St Paul, MN 55101 9pm / $5 / 18+
We hope everything is going wonderful in your world, always stay true to yourself and continue on the best path you can choose. If your free and have the time to listen to a song please take a listen to one of ours<3
We also uploaded a new picture so please let us know what you think of it<3 Forever yours Forever Mine
I hate spamming and all this but this is very important to me and I want everyone to know!
As you may or may not know the original album release party for the B Mc-C album "Mr. Nice Guy" was scheduled for late June but much to everybody's dismay got canceled due to the venue shutting down 3 days prior to the event.
THAT'S NOT GONNA STOP US!
The event is re-booked and re-vamped for Friday, September 25th at The Loft @ Barfly in downtown Minneapolis! This time with modernsextrash co-headlining for their one year as a band bash!
Doors open at 9 PM and it is 5 dollars for 21+ and 7 dollars for 18+
DRINK SPECIALS UNTIL 11 PM: 2 for 1 Mich Golden Light $5 Jag Bombs
YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS! BRING A FRIEND OR TEN!
I just wanted to stop by to say hello and give you a little update on what Blood Root Mother is up to! We will be recording an EP of new music in August, and we recently finished recording a live DVD. The DVD is currently unreleased and I actually just saw it for the first time a few days ago. It features the last two performances with Tony Ellis still alive, and some footage from the tribute show we played on the night of his funeral.
There are some cool covers, as well as some NEW music that will be on our upcoming EP. We're very excited about the new music and we'd like to share a sneak peak with you. Here's a video of a new tune called Run Bobby Run:
![Austen Leathers [NEW SONG!]](http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/88/s_a39defc8e826405aabff6005240fffc6.jpg)
Online Now!
