Emerging: Mannequin Men
Aug 24, 07
Somewhere nestled between "Strychnine", Paul Revere & the Raiders, Ron & Scott Asheton and The Ponys circa Turn the Lights Out is a little room on the shelf for Chicago natives Mannequin Men.
And while garage rock revival and boozy instrumentation aren't necessarily a new thing to any of our ears, you have to give it up to a band like this. Sharing stages with The (aforementioned and also Chicago come-uppers) Ponys or more recent luminaries of blood, filth and urine, The Black Lips is seemingly no easy task. And filling your songs with this many shout-shout-guitar filler-shout-shout histrionics can run the risk of being redundant and thereby, well, quite honestly, no fun. But the kids of MM don't seem to be bothered by either case. Inducing the same fervor at shows as their Atlanta drinking-your-own-piss friends in Black Lips without all that goes along with, er, drinking your own piss, Mannequin Men even SOUND sweaty and out of (but still sort of in) control.
Mannequin Men are on tour now, behind their newest full length, Fresh Rot.
Get sweat soaked:
Sep 08 Pass Out Records In-Store Brooklyn, NY
Sep 09 Piano's New York City, NY
Sep 21 Triple Rock Social Club w/ THE VIBRATORS!! Minneapolis, MN
Sep 22 Vaudeville Mews Iowa City, Iowa
Sep 28 LSA w/ BLACK LIPS, Selmanaires FRESH ROT RELEASE SHOW CHICAGO
Oct 03 400 Club Minneapolis MN
Oct 14 Velvet Lounge Washington D.C.
Oct 18 CMJ Music Festival New York NY
Oct 19 CMJ Music Festival TBA New York NY
Oct 20 CMJ Music Festival TBA New York NY
Oct 21 P.A.’s Lounge Boston MA
(mp3) Grapefruit
(mp3) Dead Kids
(mp3) Boys
Godspeed!
