Sacramento is a small place. It's called the "city of a beer" by a website that was once dedicated to documenting the city's inbred band scene. A crazy ex-stunt driver in Sacto used to get away with hosting giant rock-and-roll junk-car crashing parties on his property once a year. A pal of mine discovered an underground drunk boxing league operating in a neighbor's backyard a few doors down from his house. You get the picture.
Mayyors hail from Sacramento, and needless to say, they are inbred. In a good way: aggro, volatile, and missing a chromosome. Their set at the WFMU/Aquarius Records 2009 SXSW showcase was full of loud, sweat-drenched, noisy punk. Assaulting guitars and vox backed by jumping drums hooked the crowd, and soon everyone was sloshing around in a chummy, punch-you-in-the-face sort of manner. Eventually, the bloggers-with-large-fancy-cameras retreated to the further reaches of Spiro's, giving Mayyors singer John Pritchard the opportunity to leer and spit at hungry onlookers from the floor of the venue. Video here.
Check out some songs (links below are MP3s), this set absolutely punished!
Warming Up | Airplanes | White Jeep | (unknown #1) | (unknown #2) | (unknown #3) | (unknown #4) | (unknown #5) | (unknown #6) | (unknown #7) | (unknown #8) | (unknown #9) | (unknown #10)
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How can I contact these guys? I'd love to invite them to the Play:STL festival in St. Louis.
Posted by: Michael Munro | April 03, 2009 at 11:43 PM
I see the bass player every Sunday, shopping at Trader Joe's. I'll make sure to tell him that STL is looking for him.
Posted by: Jonny | April 04, 2009 at 04:15 AM
Oops, I meant singer. I didn't mean to write bass player.
Posted by: Jonny | April 04, 2009 at 04:19 AM
you meant to write bass 'player'
Posted by: holland_oats | April 04, 2009 at 03:59 PM
best show of sxsw. i got a bloody nose and kept moshing.
Posted by: cb | April 05, 2009 at 02:41 PM
If you really do see the singer, tell him to submit an EPK at www.sonicbids.com/playstl. I'd appreciate it! Thanks!
Posted by: Munro | April 07, 2009 at 01:06 AM
Magnificent band - thanks for this.
And to Munro - F*CK that Sonicbids bullsh*t. It's the 21st century equivalent of "Pay to Play". Utter crap.
Posted by: Ant | April 12, 2009 at 07:29 PM
anyone have song titles? 6 is metro atleast...
Who do you have to blow to get the Mayyors to Europe?
Posted by: CMA | April 14, 2009 at 03:11 PM