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Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear

LIKE REVOLUTION WITH BEER— BLACKLISTED SINCE 2004.

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"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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Member Since: 10/26/2005
Band Website: redsmear.com
Band Members: Matthew Grimm, Earth and Fire (but not Wind), Tyler Durden, Che Guevara, Dave Stengel, D.Lee, Big Bill Haywood, Bill Neff, the Guy Under the Seats, Johnny Tightlips, Jason Berge, John of Patmos, that douche from that fucking sitcom, Mick Hargreaves, Donovan McNabb, DK, James Robinson, Baldwin IX of Flanders, the Pseudo-Baldwin, Matt Winegardner, Pornstar Raylene, Pipefitters Local 302, cymbal-banging monkey, Eric Straumanis, Milhouse’s Dad, Bender, Big Chief Lumberg, Arnoldo di Brescia, Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David, Randall Davis, Ryan Theriot, Azlea Antistia, Brian Urlacher, Hugh Thompson, Matt Azzarto, all those dames who’d make the exception for Angelina Jolie, Andres Nocioni, Smedley Butler, David Henderson, Tom Tolbert, Jeff Sale, V.
Influences: booze, Social Distortion, Bill Hicks, Henry Agard Wallace, Bender, Herbert Marcuse, Robert Penn Warren, John Sayles, Dave Alvin, Jason & the Scorchers, Cornel West, Scruffy the Cat, Jonathan Kwitney, Chomsky, Farscape, MC5, Phil Spector, that dog on the corner who tells us to do things, Salvador Allende, The Del Fuegos, pornography, Alan Moore, Sidney Lumet, David Fincher, Letters to Cleo, Tariq Ali, Siddhartha Gautama, Tuuli, Joss Whedon, anger.
Sounds Like: Shit your parents probably warned you about.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

REPUBLICANS NOT JUST IRKED AT PALIN, THINK SHE SHE COULD BE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER

First, enjoy this (thanks to Dave): Meanwhile, even one of the NYTimes' officious linear-thinking Republican drones-masquerading-as-an-intellectual has not had kind words for McCain's kibble to the pa...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:21:00 PST

90-YEAR-OLD AKRON WOMAN COMES UP WITH NEW WAY SURVIVE BUSH AMERICA

(CNN) -- Fannie Mae said it will set aside the loan of a woman who shot herself as sheriff's deputies tried to evict her from her foreclosed home. Fannie Mae foreclosed on the Akron, Ohio, home of Add...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:14:00 PST

MINE WORKERS TO NRA: FUCK OFF

Management at a West Virginia coal mine colluded to allow an NRA propaganda crew access to miners so they could bitch on camera about how Barack Obama -- no threat to gun ownership, by the way, but ap...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:47:00 PST

APPARENTLY THE PITBULL IS 8 TIMES SMARTER THAN THE FUCKING HOCKEY MOM

A dyed-in-the-wool Republican and a former Bush speechwriter is pissed at comparisons of Sarah Palin to previous GOP dipshit celebre-du-jour. David Frum, former dutiful administration employee and now...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:44:00 PST

REPUBLICAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Frankly, I think it's sweet. Sarah Palin is not only the first female vice presidential candidate of the GOP, she is also apparently the first ever retarded candidate for the position. Just the latest...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:51:00 PST

ON LABOR DAY: DEBS, THE BENDING CROSS AND FREE SONGS FOR EVERYBODY

I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and the factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their bar...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:25:00 PST

REAL REPUBLICANS WRAP THEIR GRAFT IN REAL MONEY

A few years back when the a handful of ugly corporate meltdowns revealed what true capitalists do best  which is trading on fake value and denuding real value to squander the profits on superfluous l...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:17:00 PST

UPDATE! PUBLIC PROPERTY ADDED TO FLOOD RELIEF BENEFIT JUNE 19!

Public Property! Zollo! Shame Train! The Red Smear! Samuel Locke Ward! Nate Basinger! The Burning Halos! The Cellar Door! ALL ON ONE NIGHT, THURS JUNE 19. The Iowa City music community and The Mill st...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:06:00 PST

FISA: TIME FOR OBAMA TO PUT UP

Something's been bugging me, and I know I'm not the first one to raise it, but as Barack Obama essays gracefully to the status of presumptive nominee, I think it's worth asking again: Could our would-...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Fri, 09 May 2008 07:25:00 PST

LUGO, PARAGUAY AND A DIFFERENT KIND OF RED/BLUE MAP

I've had worse reasons to get joyously drunk than the potentially epoch-making electoral victory of Fernando Lugo in the Paraguay's presidential election.For anybody with any rudimentary knowledge of ...
Posted by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:39:00 PST