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The Massacres

Windy City Psychobilly

About Me


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/25/2004
Band Website: themassacres.com
Band Members:

    Hoagy - Lead Vokills and Party PantsMickey Massacre - Guitar and Backing VokillsColin Massacre - Percussion / DrumsThe Butterknife - Double BassEthan - New Merch BitchBuddy Sutton - Retired Merch BitchB.J. - Retired Doublebass

CONTACT INFORMATION

Label Contact
Mikey Von Ransom
Bouncing Betty Records
E: Mikey[at]BouncingBettyRecords[dot]com

Booking
E: booking[at]themassacres[dot]com

Influences:
THE MASSACRES
Redemption CD
Bouncing Betty Records (2008)
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Season of the Scarecrow CD
Flying Saucer Records (2006)
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Paid in Black: Johnny Cash Tribute CD
Wolverine Records (2007)
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DOWNLOADFar too many to really put down. We all grew up on different types of music before we formed as a band. But the most obvious types are: Rockabilly, Country, Horror rock, metal (yep, deal with it!), Blues, Rock and Roll,Punk, Oi!, and Psychobilly.
Sounds Like: Your best nightmare...
VIDEOS
"Pumpkin Patch Murders" w/ Blitzkid

"Transsylvanian Express" at Knitting Factory, Hollywood

"Season of the Scarecow" acoustic

"Resurrected" at Stage83



Record Label: Bouncing Betty Records ///// Flying Saucer Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Update - July 8th 2008 - Show Cancellation!

Down to business straight away - The July 11th show at Buzzbomb Club has been cancelled. We received an email from the people who run the place last night telling us they 'do not have all ages shows o...
Posted by The Massacres on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:29:00 PST

New MASSACRES Merch!

Hi to all you creatures of the night! Quick update, in anticipation of the Metro show with Horrorpops on Wednesday, we have a new shirt design in, fresh off the printing press. The initial run will fe...
Posted by The Massacres on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:10:00 PST

Preorder THE MASSACRES and get free goods including free MP3

We are pleased to announce that THE MASSACRES have signed to Chicago's punk label, BOUNCING BETTY RECORDS (home of the Vindictives, Pink Lincolns, Apocalyse Hoboken, The Scarred and others) for the re...
Posted by The Massacres on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:25:00 PST

Update *yawns*

Alrighty then! I was in Mystery Street for the most part of yesterday laying down the vocal tracks for the new EP. I have heard the rough mixes with the new guitar tracks that Mickey put down recently...
Posted by The Massacres on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:05:00 PST

Update on new EP...

Indeed! we spent Saturday and Sunday locked away at Mystery Street Recording Co feverishly working on our new EP. The drum and bass tracks are finished and Mickey and myself will be finishing the rest...
Posted by The Massacres on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:44:00 PST

Latest news 12/27/07

Greetings to you all, fellow fiends and ghouls! Just a quick update to let you know that The Massacres will be heading into Mystery Street Recording Studio the weekend of the 5th and 6th of January to...
Posted by The Massacres on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:55:00 PST

The Massacres at The Note - Oct 20th

Holy crap! what a great time we had on Saturday night! 2007 saw the 10th anniversary of our good friends The Gravetones, and they celebrated the fact with a show at The Note on Milwaukee Ave in Wicker...
Posted by The Massacres on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:13:00 PST

Massacres photos from 08/05/07

Here are some pics of us from the Blitzkid/Graverobber show on 08/05/07, kindly supplied by Lee Klawans enjoy!  ...
Posted by The Massacres on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST

Milwaukee - 06/16/07

Well, we officially played our first show of 2007 on Saturday at the Miramar Theater in Milwaukee. A very cool venue with lots of potential. A good size, with a pretty good sound system. Overall the t...
Posted by The Massacres on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:21:00 PST

Massacres stuff - Update 04-23-07

Well, its a sad day in the Massacres camp, and I have been deliberatley holding off on writing this until the dust settled. As we all know, Mistah BJ, our string slapper of ultimate doom and destructi...
Posted by The Massacres on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:28:00 PST