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mayhew the traitor

About Me



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never underestimate or take for granted the people you get to play music with...bands come and go but an alliance through music can happen! create! wake up! imagine!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/10/2005
Band Website: you are here
Band Members: Matt : Andrew : JW
Influences: neil young, hank williams, johnny cash, bob dylan, the broadways, the lawrence arms, tuesday, the honor system, operation ivy, fifteen, murder by death, isis, botch, nick cave, nick drake, elliott smith, sunny day real estate, cap n' jazz, american football, owen, you and i, joshua fit for battle, love lost but not forgotten, charles bronson, leo tolstoy, planes mistaken for stars, appleseed cast, jazz to moon base 2, scouts honor, rocky votolato, chew toy, pedro the lion, the undertow orchestra, mineral, the gloria record, zookeeper, cursive, jean paul sartre, hemingway, belle and sebastian, small brown bike, minus the bear, hot snakes, built to spill, the decemberists, band of horses, the refused, sick of it all, hank III, converge, snapcase, subsist, the velvet underground, nico, the beauty shop, signsedso, hewhocorrupts, mewithoutyou, lou reed, david bowie, george harrison, john lennon, william elliott whitmore, steven, ignite, bear vs. shark, the clash, the ramones, my morning jacket....and so many more
Sounds Like: whiskey / camel filters / miller high life / living life to the fullest
Record Label: thinker thought / toys in the attic
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

write-up in quincy herald whig

Thinker Thought Records artist Mayhew The Traitoris not what I expected, and the trio from Macomb, Ill., would be hardto shelve by genre in a record store. (This may sound funny, but thatsmeant in a ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:40:00 GMT

deathwish review from skyscraper magazine

Mayhew The Traitor received a new review for "Deathwish" from Skyscraper Magazine:"Mayhew the Traitors Deathwish opens with 'Shakin with John Wayne,' an upbeatmixture of jangle guitar and gritty cou...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:17:00 GMT

shakin with john wayne - video

the fellas from chew toy were nice enough to put together a video for "shakin with JW" - video footage taken by Mark Twitchell and Justin Georges anytime between 2004 and 2008. Thanks guys!
Posted by on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:36:00 GMT

review from ghettoblaster magazine

MAYHEW THE TRAITOR - DEATHWISH"The isolated college town of Macomb, IL seems a fitting setting for the dark American gothic sound crafted by the trio of Mayhew The Traitor. However, even with song t...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:26:00 GMT

review from punkbands.com

Getting records like this while writing for a site called "punkbands.com" always catches me off guard. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but it just goes to show that punk rock has become a l...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:08:00 GMT

"DEATHWISH" review from Big Takeove Magazine

"To hear Deathwish once is to fall into its heavy yet folky Americana rock spell. The Macomb, IL college town trio have the good fortune to be fronted by enormously talented singer-songwriter Matthew ...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:31:00 GMT

DEATHWISH" Review from theplaylist.net

"Mayhew the Traitor is another winner for Thinker Thought Records, an emerging label that won't be small for very long with their roster. Mayhew the Traitor deliver ten songs of what their label descr...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:28:00 GMT

mayhew profiled in macomb by western courier

if you want to see the pics for the article go to westerncourier.com ---> archives --->  February 2 issue ----> Macomb brews 'Mayhew'   MACOMB BREWS 'MAYHEW' From the melancholy "Deathwish" ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 14:00:00 GMT