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MAN MAN

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PHILADELPHIA
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   MAN MAN: General Info
Member Since4/9/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.wearemanman.com
Band Members HONUS HONUS
CRITTER CRAT
POW POW
CHANG WANG
ORGAN "TURKEY MOTH" FREEMAN
JEFFERSON




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Watch the full concert at baeblemusic.com

BOOKING:
jim@groundcontroltouring.com

MANAGEMENT:
manman_info@ravenhouseltd.com

PRESS:
hilary@epitaph.com

InfluencesLord of the Flies. Boar Hunting Expeditions. Aztec Pajama Rituals. Kilgore Trout. Real Genius. Phillies. Sun Ra. Mind Stickers. Vietnamese Hoagies. Purple Bottomous. Yeti Mating Rituals. Tragedy. Allen Iverson. Holy Mountain. Nina Simone. Dock Ellis. Piston Honda. Avocado Bros. Mr. Jarry. Mr. Hojjy. WHISKEY TROUBLE. Watermelon Sugar. Girls Girls Girls. Darth Mii. Doctor Bogs. Bobby McFerrin. Kung Fu. Log Flumes. Soda Popinski. Turkeymoth. Sex. Mistakes. Broken Hearts. Green Mango Mayhem.
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Record LabelANTI
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Oct 23 2009 8:00P
9:30 Club Washington DC, Washington DC
Oct 24 2009 8:00P
Cherry Bounce Festival Raleigh, North Carolina
Oct 30 2009 8:00P
Southern Cafe & Music Hall Charlottesville, Virginia
Oct 31 2009 8:00P
Busters Backroom and Billiards Lexington, Kentucky

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   About MAN MAN
Before the beginning...

Before the world came into existence, all was a chaos, unimaginably limitless and without shape or form. Eon followed eon, particle became mass: then, lo! out of this boundless, shapeless mass something light and transparent rose up and formed the heavens. And from the heavens fell five shapes, loud and heavy and jumbled, and from these rough forms were shaped and sculpted the first firsts: Honus Honus (the High-August-First-Voice), Sergei Sogay (the Divine-Center-of-Four-Strings), Pow Pow (the August-Beat-Divinity), Critter Crat (the Divine-Twang-and-Everything-Else) and Chang Wang (the Other-Twang-and-Wondrous-Everything-Else).

And they set out to fill the yawning void that gripped the earth, and they crammed the emptiness with sounds, of voices and guitars and drums, yes; but also with squeaky toys and pots and spoons and cap guns and chopsticks and old shoes and fruit and stuffed frogs. And such was their exuberant good time, and such was the mess they made, that they did not see their jealous creator, envious of their ingenuity and novelty items, sneaking up on their ebullient pandemonium and casting them out...

Today...

In their lost divinity, Man Man took up residence in Philadelphia, perhaps because of the Sweet Philly sound, Noam Chomsky, the water Sun Ra was drinking, Charles Barkley's elbows, the excellence of the Philly lacrosse team or Rocky or Betsy Ross or John Coltrane. Or maybe it was it's close proximity to south Jersey.

Never you mind. The point is, Man Man keeps on keeping on, filling the blankness with their weird/beautiful, esoteric/heart-rending, profound/hilarious sounds. There is so much lovely commotion to be made, Man Man famously does not break between songs during their live shows, but rather moves, revolving-door fashion, from one song to another, commandeering and discarding any of number of the instruments lying at their feet as the mood strikes and the music dictates.

Comparisons to the usual avant-garde forefathers - Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits - persist, but Man Man are decidedly not identity thieving or even overtly referencing these spiritual godfathers in their music, but rather are acting as torchbearers of the unusual, the spontaneous and the plainly fucking funny in an increasingly homogenized world. "I'm just making the songs I know how to write," says Honus. "The one thing I want to clarify is that this is an organic project -- who we are, the kind of lives we lived before we met each other, and the lives we have together. [That's] what makes this band and this music what it is. I would say being broke is one of my biggest influences. That and being in and out of relationships. Those are bigger influences than listening to a Beefheart record."

Indeed, it would be a mistake to write off Man Man as simply "experimental," "psychedelic" or even "jokesy," for they are some, but mostly none, of that. Their music is clearly rooted in rock, blues and pop, and they can really play all those instruments. A long list of the most successful, accessible and accomplished indie rock bands working today - think Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Cat Power - have asked Man Man on tour. At a Man Man show, one might see a hipster chaining up a fixie out front, a gaggle of high school kids with a genuine "Lord of the Flies/Peter Pan's Lost Boy's" fire in their eyes, some hippie old-timers, still in it to win it. The scope of their appeal attests to Man Man's genuine abilities and the palpable emotion of the music.

With Rabbit Habits, their Anti- Records debut, and the natural extension of their body of work begun with The Man In A Blue Turban With A Face and continued with Six Demon Bag, Man Man bring their incomparable vision to bear. Successfully capturing the raw spirit and essence of a Man Man live show, Rabbit Habits is the end product of the efforts of a band who are earnestly saying something important, even if you can't always make out the words over the blare of the sousaphone.


Sperm meets Egg. Egg goes bADD.


Our first two albums are available in CD form through ( ACE FU RECORDS )

Both are available in Digi-form from ( iTUNES ) (recommended for immediate gratification)

"Six Demon Bag" is available on DELICIOUS double gatefold 10" vinyl picture disc through ( FREE NEWS PROJECTS ) ( spiritually & artistically recommended, especially for all those getting free music on that internet thing )


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Tim

Tim Hubbard



Dec 25 2009 12:02 AM

I HOPE ALL OF YOU HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! I HOPE ANY ONE WHO READS THIS COMMENT HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS!! I HOPE THE WORLD HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS!! AND I HOPE THE UNIVERSE HAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Ashton Nyte (pre-order The Valley now!)

Ashton Nyte (pre-order The Valley now!)



Dec 22 2009 7:52 PM

Season's Greetings! "The Valley" is now available for order and would look fabulous in your Christmas stocking :-). New songs up too. Have a wonderful holiday!





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Dec 22 2009 1:05 AM

please please please come back to buffalo. <3
Charl_ _

Charlie Meyer



Dec 21 2009 4:48 PM

When you guys gonna be headin back to chi city??
im missin ya
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Dom Swagz New Single



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Dec 18 2009 11:16 PM

Hi we just posted a new song called "Imagination's Cruelty" Please take a min to check it out and let us know what you think? Thanks for your time.


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Shelly THIckadds



Dec 18 2009 4:44 AM

Hi =) I've got the coolest stuff on my page!
Festival Prints

Festival Prints J-Red



Dec 18 2009 2:43 AM

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Maximillian

Maximillian



Dec 17 2009 10:43 PM

Wishing you the best this holiday season from: MAXIMILLIAN
LA TERRA TREMA

LA TERRA TREMA



Dec 17 2009 9:09 AM

Hey Man Man, what's news? back in France!!!!!
sleeping dogs lie

sleeping dogs lie



Dec 16 2009 7:35 PM

Happy Happy Holidays Holidays Man Man.
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Unmen

Unmen



Dec 15 2009 9:13 PM

Check out our tracks dudes! we just put them up tell us what you think
-timm
Cabaret Sauvage

Cabaret Sauvage



Dec 14 2009 11:54 AM

Folles Nuits Berbères

7 ans déjà ! La fin d'un cycle et d'une fabuleuse aventure qui a vu se succéder des musiciens et circassiens dans une des ambiances les plus chaleureuses de Paris quand au coeur de l'hiver il est souvent si difficile de trouver un coin de soleil...
Pour cette dernière édition, nous vous convions à un bouquet final féérique grace à une distribution de rêves...

Entre music-hall et cirque, Méziane Azaïche réunit pour le meilleur et pour le fun, des amuseurs, des comédiens, des acrobates, des chanteurs et...deux ânesses accompagnées par un dresseur poétique!

Cela déclenche des rires sains et bien des sensations fortes ! Ce sera le cas avec Yukki Yoyo, qui déboule sur scène en twistant le yoyo, une discipline difficile à réaliser, dont il est le champion absolu. Cette ouverture vers l'Asie se traduit également par l'apparition d'Antoine et Rocco, duettistes doués dans l'art extrêmement acrobatique du mât chinois. La danse occupera une place de choix et le trapèze volera haut avec l’aérienne et planante Jane Allan.
La musique sera assurée par deux valeurs sûres de la chanson maghrébo-universelle. Samira Brahmia, dont la voix limpide accapare l'oreille, la cajole, la console, l'émeut, une artiste de scène à la puissance hors normes.
Et Akli D qui est fort capable de faire se rencontrer des montagnes, ou à défaut de les déplacer. Ses musiques ont du caractère, un tempérament de feu, ses strophes sont frappées au coin du bon sens et ses rythmes ont de quoi réveiller les hanches les plus blasées.
Tout au long des réjouissances, outre les odeurs (culinaires), les couleurs (artistiques) et les figures (acrobatiques), le comédien Athmane Bendaoud et la slameuse Tata Milouda seront vos guides.
Bienvenue à bord de ce spectacle, mis en scène par le très inspiré Arnaud Joyet, et décollage immédiat le 4 décembre dans un monde insoupçonné qui n'est pas sans rappeler les veillées fascinantes, autour d'u
David Normal

David Normal



Dec 14 2009 6:20 AM

I've made a new painting, "Traffic Jam". You'll find it on my profile and in my blog.
The Subterraneans.

The Subterraneans.



Dec 13 2009 5:25 PM

free drugs
Eleonora

Eleonora Niesi



Dec 12 2009 4:28 PM

vi aspettiamo in Italia!!!
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Darci Marie



Dec 12 2009 2:39 PM

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[S.H.E] Label, records, agent, venue, booking, etc

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Dec 12 2009 5:15 AM

:o) Calling all Super Heroes. Please report for duty. Superhero2008@rock.com
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Dec 11 2009 12:16 AM

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Of Silence and Salvation (Writing!) {Update Blog!}

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Dec 10 2009 9:27 PM

How's it goin?
60 Tigres

60 Tigres



Dec 10 2009 6:25 PM

Estamos presentando nuestros Nuevos videos de TV en HD..entra a nuestro Myspace o Da click a este link:
http://www.youtube.com/sesentatigres

"Garage" es nuestro 2do Ep. Descargalo Gratis en: http://garage.delhotel.com

Mientras tanto te invitamos a que pases a delhotel.com y descubras una parte de la escena regiomontana que no esta en el radio y que es parte de nuestra familia.
En Ventura, Mr. Racoon, Album, Club Comfort.. y toda la musica de 60 TIGRES.
HiPpiE

HiPpiE



Dec 10 2009 5:04 PM

georgia needs man man
marialee[CMXS]

marialee[CMXS]



Dec 10 2009 4:16 AM

Come to Birmingham, AL please!!
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We miss you&need you!
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