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Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on SellaBand
"If you haven’t heard of Matthew Grimm and The Red Smear, you’re missing a great band, sort of a cross between the Clash and Wilco. They’re Iowa’s best rock’n’roll band -- intense, melodic and political . . ." DOWN WITH TYRANNY
"Me, Im gonna play the hell outta this stuff, stick it on mix CDs, blast it on my radio program, rock the tavern on my weekly DJ night and force every hard-working, beer-guzzling, non-voting dumbass friend I have to listen to every word of it. Until I hear stuff like this rammed down my ear-holes as fervently and repetitively as I currently do patriotic pabulum like Toby Keith, Pat Robertson and Bill O Fing Reilly, Ill consider it my duty as a proud, practicing, rock n roll preachin American . . ." Pulse of the Twin Cities
Blazing out of the Midwest like somebody sabotaged their van, Matthew Grimm and the Red Smear are the most blacklisted band in Iowa. Foolishly flaunting the First Amendment, the Smear plays the rock & roll music the kids love liberally peppered with obscenity, salacious inuendo and treasonous invective that has more recently proven utter and immutable truth versus dissembling propaganda of the Assholes In Charge. Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear are the enemies of all things good, pure and proper, as is in full evidence at their actual website REDSMEAR.COM , along with FREE DOWNLOADS, UNABASHED LEFTIST RANTING AND REASONED DISCOURSE WITH THOSE WHO SEND US HATE MAIL.
Former frontman of the famously obscure NYC roots rock "legends," The Hangdogs , Grimm has returned to his native Iowa, where he spends his spare nights seeding his ultimate legacy as a filthy-mouthed, prophetic barroom sage and counseling young people on their "relationships." His first post-Hangdogs record, Dawn’s Early Apocalypse, helmed by the multiplatinum producer Pete Anderson (Dwight Yoakam, Michelle Shocked, The Mavericks) and Pete Lubin, is a fistful of dynamite-packed powerpop and punky rootspop songs featuring the work of a stellar lineup of LA musicians, including Anderson, bassist Teeneage Rob Douglas (Chuck Prophet), drummer Josh Day, keyboardist Mike Murphy, guitarist Charlton Pettus (Tears for Fears) and the vocal talents of Dusty Wakeman (Yoakam) and Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams), as well as Iowa Smear guitarist Jason Berge.
If you’d like to see the Smear in YOUR town, yell at the people at your local PA-equipped bar to return our fucking calls and/or emails.
"When it comes to using lyrics and Web-site writings to take on right-wing politicians, the religious right, the mainstream media and others who raise his ire, Grimm has few peers. Smart and literate (a dangerous combination), Grimm also knows how to rock and twang with abandon -- an even more dangerous combination." San Antonio Express-News
"Those who like their rock n roll pretty and polite should avoid Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear, as wanton a band of aural barbarians as ever assaulted a soundboard . . . That [Grimm] couples his populist protests with a slashing wit makes it all the more imperative that the tracks on Dawns Early Apocalypse find a wider audience." Playback:StL
WHO WE’D LIKE TO DRINK WITH: Revolutionaries, dissidents, the defiant, the disenfranchised, the put-upon, downsized and mortgaged, union fucks, non-union fucks who need a union, freedom fighters, Jon Stewart, Bill Hicks, anybody who wants to meet Bill Hicks, Matt Groening, Subcomandante Marcos, Chavez, Lula, Evo, Ness, Feingold, Janine Lindemulder, Raylene, Rita Faltoyano, sluts, whores, strippers, subs, doms, earthbound angels, losers, dweebs, drunks, freaks, wretched refuse, tempest-tossed, Grangers, Wobblies, anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists, non-doctrinaire socialists, non-DLC Democrats, social economists, social pariahs, the beshitted and addled children of the MTV, Rachael Leigh Cook, Jessie Fuckin Klein, all the rest of the handful of people on this spinning hunk of dirt who don’t think what they’re told, anyone who thinks what they’re told starting to feel the fist up their ass.
". . . the hardest hitting leftfielder this side of Manny Ramirez." Iowa City Press-Citizen
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