2008: Mute Socialite

featuring Moe! Staiano from Moe!kestra! & Sleepytime Guerilla Museum

Drummer/percussionist Moe! Staiano (Moe!kestra!, ex-Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) had always wanted to have a band of his own. Finding suitable candidates in the young talents of guitarist Ava Mendoza and bassist Alee Karim (Atomic Bomb Audition), together they began in 2006 to create bizarre, instrumental fleshings-out of Moe!'s compositional frameworks as Mute Socialite. In January of 2007, 2nd drummer Shayna Dunkleman joined the ranks and augmented the volume and overall goodness.

Mute Socialite represents a dense synthesis of our diverse backgrounds—Moe!’s driving post-punk drumming and percussion guitar, Ava’s free jazz sensibility and mangled country and black metal riffage, Alee’s sub-bass, grinding harmonic interplay, and Shayna’s prismatic sense of percussive dynamics. Jolting, hocketing rhythms, atonal surf riffs, and blackened salsa grooves combine to create a singular brutal, polyrhythmic spasmathon. A primordial beastie unleashed on the world in either fury or love!

Since early 2007, we've shared bills with Uz Jsme Doma, Old Time Relijun, XBXRX, Death Sentence: Panda!, Capillary Action, Time of Orchids, Cellular Chaos (Weasel Walter), Cryptacize (members of Deerhoof), Moggs and Ettrick.

Artist (photo by Photographer)