Mutts main man Mike Maimone goes hardboiled lounge lizard on his new EP Strong Enough. He deconstructs and attacks four popular songs, which works best with Fiona Apple's Criminal.
Thye will hate in Starbucks, but cool bars will book him. What's not to like about passionately Tom Waits-ing well-known tunes, using a beat-up keyboard and kick drum? Charles Bukowski would have loved this.
Strong Enough is a self-released EP. Buy it (pay-what-you-want) from his website.
Tracks:- Man (Yeah Yeah Yeahs Cover)
- Someone Like You (Adele Cover)
- Criminal (Fiona Apple Cover)
- Strong Enough (Sheryl Crow Cover)
- 12/04 East Lansing, MI @ Crunchy's
- 12/05 Fort Wayne, IN @ Dash-In
- 12/06 Canton, OH @ Buzzbin | Canton 1st Friday
- 12/07 Cleveland, OH @ Barking Spider Tavern
- 12/09 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
- 12/10 New Brighton, PA @ Wooley Bully's
- 12/11 State College, PA @ The Darkhorse Tavern
- 12/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Spike Hill
- 12/13 Wilmington, DE @ Jackson Inn
- 12/14 - 12/19 TBA; like/follow/tweet for updates
- 12/20 Johnson City, TN @ Acoustic Coffeehouse
- 12/23 Charlotte, NC @ The Evening Muse
- 12/27 Nashville, TN @ 12th & Porter
Mutts is back on the road in 2014:
- 01/17 Oshkosh, WI @ Glass Nickel Pizza Co/
- 01/18 Neenah, WI @ Cranky Pat's
- 02/03 Chicago, IL @ Township - Residency (w/ Delta Routine & Z
- 02/10 Chicago, IL @ Township (w/ Kane Place Record Club & Common Shiner)
- 02/17 Chicago, IL @ Township (w/ Maid Myriad & Empires (Acoustic )
- 02/24 Chicago, IL @ Township (w/ Vic & Gab & Wedding Dress)
- 03/07 Rock Island @ RIBCO - Post Mortems LP Release
- 03/08 Columbia, MO @ The Bridge 3-yr Anniversary
- 04/03 Stevens Point, WI @ WWSP Beatlesfest