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Motico

About Me

Originally conceived by artist Ray Johnson as "a mailable form of collage that he christened the "motico," favoring its recipients with the private salutations of a man who still required keeping an enigmatic distance" ( -CityPages ).
But that doesn't really have anything to do with the band that we named Motico, unless you want it to mean something.
We live in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
We play amusing rock music about how much you've disappointed us.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/08/2004
Band Website: http://www.motico.com
Band Members: Buzz McKinnon: drums / Chris Glazier: guitar
Influences: Mission of Burma, Shellac, The Ex, Husker Du, The Feelies, Joy Division, Grand Funk Railroad, The Steve Miller Band, John Oates (but not Darryl Hall).
Sounds Like: “Minimalist post-punk icons Steve Albini and Ian Curtis would likely approve of Motico's grinding, repetitive riffs and their quirky, neck-snapping cadences.” —Splendid Ezine
Record Label: Not I Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Recording done, show Oct 12

We just finished mixing 15 tracks at Kurguelen Studio with Justin Foley from The Austerity Program. We have to get it mastered, but expect some new sample songs up here soon. And come see us for free ...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:55:00 GMT

Rock Star Bar

We love bands like Methodist not only for rocking hard but also for asking us to play shows with them at lovely venues like the Rockstar Bar. Despite the fact that Williamsburg basically rose and fell...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:05:00 GMT

Motico Song Library

Just posted a new recording of Ft. Apache in its slightly shorter form. Go to our main site for better-quality mp3s in our song library:http://www.motico.com/library.html
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:23:00 GMT

Hundebox and The Wandering Jew

This week we got an oldie and a ... newie. Wandering Jew is one of the few songs we still play from the olden days, we keep cutting stuff out of it. Eventually there will be nothing left and we won't ...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:27:00 GMT

Electronic Detective and Removable Partial

Whoops I forgot to write up Electronic Detective, a song we recorded a couple weeks back. This song has been in our repetoire for quite some time but never successfully recorded. Plus it has bene...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:02:00 GMT

Song of the Week

New song from last weekend’s recording session, this one you may recognize as "Hopper," one of our standards. But we never had a recording of it until now. Remember folks, these recordings are b...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:55:00 GMT

What’s that humming sound?

With the addition of a handheld digital recorder, we can now make recordings anywhere, of anything. No matter how poorly conceived or inexpertly captured, getting songs from our practice room to you, ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:56:00 GMT

Back to the grave

i never check this site anymore, but then again we haven't been particularly active of late. But we have moved (to Bushwick Brooklyn) and have completed major construction on our basement studio. So n...
Posted by on Tue, 22 May 2007 14:05:00 GMT

Finally, a new track

If this thing works like Rupert Murdoch tells it does, then you should be hearing a new track in our XML jukebox, "Bach's Arco Pitcairn." This is possibly the first and only song ever named after a sh...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:34:00 GMT

New Motico single

It's here, it's queer, get used to hearing it. Buy it online or from us at our shows (eventually it will be available in some stores, I'll post that at some point). Whaddya mean you don't have a turnt...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Mar 2005 08:07:00 GMT