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The Ugly Truth Met A Gorgeous Lie

About Me

Guitar MySpace Layouts - General MySpace LayoutsMumble's music could be described as intelligent rock music for those who actually believe rock and roll can still be an art form. This label is dangerous though, because Mumble's music is still certainly very accessible with hooks and memorable passages. Complexly layered with sonic structure and full bodied production, their recorded material would be likened to an immersion experience. Live performances come off more as taut displays of interwoven musical exercise with bursts of emotional and sonic fury.

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Music:

Member Since: 3/21/2006
Band Website: You are here.
Band Members: John Hawthorne: Lead Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards/Eric Empson: Vocals, Guitar/Rick Camburn: Vocals, Bass/Landon Ewers: Drums and Percussion
Influences: ABBA, Ryan Adams, Air, Air Supply, American Music Club, Aztec Camera, the Beatles, Bedhead, Beethoven, Belle & Sebastian, Big Star, Black Sabbath, Black Flag, Blur, David Bowie, Glenn Branca, James Brown, Jeff Buckley, Captain Beefheart, Cat Power, Cheap Trick, the Clash, John Coltrane, Crowded House, the Cure, Devo, Ani DiFranco, Eric Dolphy, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Ella Guru, Existential Angst (that's not a band but we're definitely influenced by it), the Flaming Lips, the Fall, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, God Speed You Black Emperor, Guided By Voices, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Hicks, Husker Du, Ivy, Iron & Wine, the Jam, Jellyfish, the Jesus Lizard, the Kinks, the Knack, Fela Kuti, Love (both the band and the actual thing called love), Low, the Magnetic Fields, Charles Mingus, the Minute Men, the Modern Lovers, Thelonious Monk, Muse, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, the New Pornographers, Nirvana, Sinead O'Connor, Oasis, Ocean Blue, Outkast, Charlie Parker, Michael Penn, Pixies, the Police, the Pogues, Prince, Pink Floyd, Q Burns, Quasi Modo, Queen, Radiohead, REM, the Replacements, PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, Slabs, Slug Bug, Elliott Smith, the Smiths, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Regina Spektor, the Stooges, Sun Ra, Television, Throwing Muses, TOOL, U2, Uncle Tupelo, the Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, the Waterboys, Lawrence Welk, Wilco, Hank Williams, Wire, X, XTC, ZZZZZZZ's (and lots of 'em), Frank Zappa, the Zombies, and anybody else who we might've forgotten but made us jump and laugh and dance and sing and think that that was how life ought to be.
Sounds Like: Radiohead, The Police, XTC, Crowded House, Nirvana, Guided by Voices, Genesis (Gabriel era), The Pixies
Record Label: www.marathonrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

To cover or not to cover. That is the question

Well, I thought I would throw this out to our myspace friends and see what kind of response we would get. You see, sometimes we play covers. Not often and not many. We want you to hear our music....
Posted by mumble on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:08:00 PST

"Booking Manifesto"

"The Booking Manifesto" I hear a lot of complaints from sound men and club owners about how "band's do this stupid thing, or band's do that stupid thing" I have no doubt that they are true war story a...
Posted by mumble on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:35:00 PST

The Mumble Machine Rumbles To Life!

Friends, Fans & Family: It's been too long dear friends. Much has evolved in the Mumble universe. First, John is a married man and moved into his new abode. Congrats to him and his new wife M...
Posted by mumble on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:05:00 PST