Coming Soon: The Key Session
New Music: In Bloom
Wether it’s Aaron quietly closing a show with Sisters of Mercy, the band jamming into Big Mouth Strikes Again or going under a fake name to play select “Blue Album” / “Pinkerton” Weezer songs, you may have noticed that in the recent years mewithoutYou has acquired an affinity for cover songs. And although you can find pretty much all that stuff on the YouTubes and Internets the band has never actually released any covers. Well, as Dylan once said, “the times they are a-changin’.”
You may or may not have heard that Nirvana’s seminal record, “Nevermind,” turned 20 years old this year on September 24th. To commemorate this milestone Jim Sampras asked us to record a version of “In Bloom” for a tribute record called “Come As You Are.” At first we just approached the song by just playing it like it is on the record. But eventually we settled on something much more unique; turned it on its head, personalized it. If you’re familiar with the song its pretty significant departure from the original. Still, it’s pretty cool, but probably not as cool as this cover though.
We Are the Final Gift from Steve Jobs
NPR’s All Songs Considered contacted us the other day to let us know that they’s be featuring Messes of Men on their tribute to Steve Jobs titled “A Final Gift from Steve Jobs.” The twist isn’t that Steve Jobs personally selected these songs on his death bed but that all the songs on the playlist were selected by a 1st Generation iPod put on shuffle. So if the iPod is an extension of Jobs then I guess through some transitive property of invention we were selected by the man himself (but probably not).
Holiday Shows with Thursday Announced!
We are proud to announce that we will be supporting Thursday on the road in December on the East Coast. It should be noted that show in Philly is actually co-headlining show. Should be fun!
12/26 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
12/27 – 9:30 Club - Washington, DC
12/28 – Toad’s Place - New Haven, CT
12/29 – Royale Boston - Boston, MA
12/30 – The TLA – Philadelphia, PA (co-headline)
all dates w/ Screaming Females, Make Do And Mend, Aficionado