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Midwestern Mass

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Midwestern Mass is a Creep Rock band formed in Chicago Illinois by "Benny Bongos". The story goes that Bongos, intoxicated, stumbled into the Graceland cemetery in Chicago one chilly autumn night. He claims to have encountered a creature resembling a werewolf who telepathically revealed he would form a band with messages from equal parts the Occult and Catholicism. The result of the encounter has been Midwestern Mass. To counter balance those somewhat darker influences of the beast, mWm has been known to add powerpop hooks, harmonies and melodies and even aspires to pop on several occasions. Some say Midwestern Mass refers to the opinion held by some on the coasts that Midwesterners are simply "flyovers" and that the mWm wolf howling in the icon is directing his anger to their planes above.


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Member Since: 14/05/2008
Band Website: http://myspace.com/midwesternmass
Band Members: BENNY BONGOS-GUITAR, VOC THE HICK-BASS, BACK VOC CHRISTOPHER DEHD-DRUMS
Influences: Badfinger, Blur, Sonic Youth, The Cure, Happy Mondays, Butthole Surfers, The Birthday Party, The Who, Nirvana, Neil "old man" Young, Tom "old man" Petty, Public Enemy, N.W.A., Ghetto Boys, New Bomb Turks, The Move, Brainiac, Fast Product, The Titmice, The Black Nag, Thin Man, Grimble Grumble, Tight Phantomz, The Waco Brothers, The Pulsars, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Byrds, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, The Pop Will Eat Itself, James, The Smiths and Morrisey, Oasis, The Hives, Queens of the Stone Age, John "old man" (only cougar) Mellencamp, Prince, The Replacements, The Posies, Big Star, Renaldo and the Loaf, Geza X, Led Zepplin, Swervedriver, Jeff Buckley, Material Issue, Spiritualized, The Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid, U.S. Maple, Big Black, Shellac, Lush, The Golden Palaminos, B-52s, R.E.M., XTC, My Bloody Valentine, ACDC, Pussy Galore, Royal Trux, AND THAT'S IT! NoBody, I mean NOBODY ELSE! EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds Like: Hopefully something you all want to hear!
Record Label: Wagon Wheel Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Contempt aint cool, but evil's on our side...

Lots of people with beards out there these days.  I wonder why that took so long?  I saw Bedhead in 1997 and they all had beards.  I thought it looked strange, because I didn't see too many people my ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:22:00 GMT

clarification?

To capitulate the residency, we do not in any binding or free sense advocate the extenuation of extraneous mind goodies. Nor will we subjugate the meek for the piracy of the inundated.>Nate "Ascot Gle...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:23:00 GMT

I just want to let you know, I've taken this much LSD too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dODdPNN0fU This video is one of the best I've seeen it's called setting sun by the chemical brothers
Posted by on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:03:00 GMT

Hotti Biscotti Show

A huge tanks to everyone who came out to see us this friday!!  I can't tell you how nice it is to play a show in a place that is relatively full.  It's like a miracle! We got a show coming u...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:04:00 GMT

Silvie’s Show

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us on Sunday!
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:55:00 GMT

Weird War "Grand Fraud"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S51mwCUt-U0 My new favorite band!
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:38:00 GMT