Vending Machine - The Band, The Blog

>mancontrol< at Stonewall Hall on Saturday March 30th

2013-03-22T14:37:00.001-06:00

>mancontrol< playing in Cincinnati | Saturday 11.10.2012

2012-11-02T07:30:00.003-06:00

>mancontrol< is heading to Rake's End in Cincinnati on November 10th. We are playing with:

Aperiodic - featuring members of Holy Fuck, Enon, A Ten O'Clock, Exponential)
Swear Jar
Old City

Upcoming >mancontrol< shows this week in Brooklyn

2012-09-18T05:49:00.002-06:00

>mancontrol< in Brooklyn, NY this week. Details:

Wednesday September 19th @ 285 KENT AVE

WITH:

|| SEWN LEATHER
|||| Uumans -------------------------------- Matt Mehlan from SKELETONS
|||||| >mancontrol< ----------------------- David Shouse from GRIFTERS
|||||||| Kid Millions + Cameron Michel --- mems ONEIDA + K-Holes
|||||||||| the Dreebs

| 285 KENT AVE |
285 Kent Ave @ South 1st | Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L-Bedford, G-Metropolitan, JM-Marcy | 8pm | $5 | all ages

Friday September 21st @ The Tiger Lounge

WITH:

|| Corrupt Autopilot
|||| >mancontrol<
|||||| Low Fat Geting High
|||||||| Yazan

| The Tiger Lounge |
272 Grand Street| Brooklyn

Meanderings 1

2012-08-14T20:30:00.002-06:00

Recorded some meanderings with Shelby Bryant when he was in town last month. First in a series of five.

Show tomorrow! Earnestine & Hazel's

2012-07-25T16:04:00.001-06:00

Playing a few songs solo and then playing some guitar with The Revisions. It's free and early. I'm playing around 7:30 pm.

Old song - Rural Retreat

2012-05-26T09:21:00.001-06:00

>mancontrol< / "2029"

2012-05-06T08:13:00.001-06:00

A song from >mancontrol< (band featuring me, Dave Shouse and James Godwin):

mancontrol at the medicine factory

2012-03-18T09:12:00.001-06:00

SONG: Shy Nikolai

2012-02-25T08:05:00.001-06:00

Here's an older song written on 4track. It's an instrumental rocker I wrote on my old 12-string I sold at a garage sale recently for $10...

Vending Machine at the December 3rd, 2011 Christmas Rock N Romp

2011-12-01T21:36:00.001-06:00

We will be playing all of our Christmas Songs at the upcoming Rock N Romp. Be there!

Listen to the songs here:

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Robby Grant and The Perfect Vessels @ Otherlands this Friday night

2011-10-27T07:14:00.000-06:00

We're playing this Friday night at Otherlands. Special Vending Machine guest include Five Grant, Mark Stuart and Robert Barnett. More details at the Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235379943186751

Here's a great video from the Perfect Vessels:
Shade Tree Astronomy from The Perfect Vessels on Vimeo.

SUNSPOTS: Know Make Scene

2011-10-18T13:53:00.000-06:00

Mouserocket in Oxford, MS this Saturday at the Blind Pig

2011-10-07T06:09:00.000-06:00

Mouserocket shares a triple-bill this Saturday night ( Oct. 8 ) at The Blind Pig with Overnight Lows and headliner E Meters. There's a feature in this week’s issue of Oxford Town. You can only read an excerpt online.

Here's an Overnight Lows video:

Playing solo at the Center for Southern Folklore this weekend

2011-08-31T21:01:00.000-06:00

Playing a solo set this Saturday, September 3rd, 5pm at the Center for Southern Folklore Memphis & Music Heritage Festival.

Check out the full schedule.

Follow their Facebook page for the latest.

Memphis Flyer review of Mouserocket's Cicada Sounds plus download code discount

2011-08-06T08:43:00.001-06:00

If you haven't got it yet, you can get Cicada Sounds here. Use 'flyeraug2011' to apply 20% off to the download and/or the artwork.
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Full review by Chris Herrington here.

While the Lost Sounds are a definitive part of Trout's musical past, her present is partially represented by another new release, Cicada Sounds, the latest from Mouserocket, a local band in which Trout showcases her more melodic side in partnership with co-bandleader Robby Grant (Vending Machine, Big Ass Truck).

With cellist Jonathan Kirkscey — also a Lost Sounds vet — adding a sonic signature, Mouserocket might be the city's most polished, reliable, and self-assured pop-rock band right now, and this brief album — eight songs in just under 30 minutes — adds further evidence.

Trout explores parenthood and domesticity more than ever before, subtly on the opening "I Can't Keep My Hands Off U" ("Dishes, dishes go away/Smash them all and make them pay/I used to run from here to there/Now you are my everywhere"), more directly on the sweet "How to Say No."

Cicada Sounds is particularly heavy with Trout-led tracks, but Grant remains in fine form. His "Take More" starts as a nimble, gently psychedelic tunelet and evolves into full-on surging rock that could be tweaked into a Foo Fighters song.

SUNSPOTS: I Need a Diagnosis

2011-07-25T20:38:00.002-06:00

SUNSPOTS: Tightly Wound

2011-07-16T07:56:00.001-06:00

Tightly Wound. Recorded most of it with Akai Synthstation 25.

New Mouserocket Album Cover for Cicada Sounds

2011-07-03T09:26:00.000-06:00

New Mouserocket album cover by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum! Our July 5th. Pre-order now.

Album release show Friday, July 8th at the Hi-Tone Cafe with The Fuzz and El Cento.

Cicada Sounds by Mouserocket

SUNSPOTS: Glues the Way

2011-06-08T06:33:00.000-06:00

The next entry in Songs from Sunspots. A 180 BPM barnstormer about sleep:

SUNSPOTS: Snake Burn

2011-05-16T20:03:00.003-06:00

SUNSPOTS: Starts and Stops

2011-04-28T06:44:00.002-06:00

Mouserocket, Luv Clowns and The Subteens live at the Levitt Shell this Saturday April 8th, 2011

2011-04-08T16:10:00.001-06:00

Come see Mouserocket, Luv Clowns and The Subteens will be playing a show this Saturday at the Shell (4-7pm). It's open to the public. You can optionally purchase a $25 wristband that will enter you in some drawings along with beer and bbq.

More from Evergreen Playschool website:
"FROLIC" is our big fundraising event this spring!
This event will raise money for our Evergreen Playschool Scholarship Fund.

20% of our student body receives full or partial financial assistance while attending Evergreen Playschool.
Read more >>

SUNSPOTS: I Love My Bike

2011-04-03T07:47:00.004-06:00

Here's a song about how much I love my bike which I built at Revolutions Community Bike Shop.

SUNSPOTS: They Just Fool You

2011-04-02T21:26:00.003-06:00

SUNSPOTS: Know Your Time

2011-03-25T15:14:00.002-06:00