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"Live Dive" features all new material recorded over a four year period at various Rochester venues (Little Theater Cafe, Bug Jar, RIT, Flat Iron Cafe and Bop Shop). Guest artists include Pete LaBonne, Jack Schaefer, Phil Marshall and Charles Jaffe. We are really excited about this one and we plan to launch it at a CD Release Party at Abilene on the Wednesday, November 25th, the night before Thanksgiving. This will be an early show in the Happy Hour time slot. There will be free pizza from Nino's, a multimedia show and a live performance with special guests.
Order "Live Dive" CD now for $10 including shipping. Go to party!.
Check out Amy Kawabata's video with an ME soundtrack. The video currently a Semifinalist in the Animation category of the Adobe Design Achievement Awards Contest
Margaret Explosion recorded a live one hour segment for WXXI's "On Stage" series. It was broadcast for the first time January 11, 2009. Click on the photo below to view video from this performance.
Margaret Explosion performed "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in the Bop Shop atrium as part of a benefit for the Hillside Children's Home on December 6, 2008.
Margaret Explosion is celebrating its tenth year as a band. WOW!
See photos as proof.
Jen from the Little Theatre models new Margaret Explosion t-shirt. See Angel Corpus Christi with hers and send us a photo with yours.
Scott Regan from WRUR's Open Tunings blog about music with his pen. This is his "Painterly Drums" entry on Margaret Explosion.
Visit Margaret Explosion on MySpace.
Go Watch Alice - Margaret Explosion video shot in San Francisco with Peggi Fournier and Rich Stim from MX80
Margaret Explosion video "4AM" by Duane Sherwood was featured in the 2007 Brooklyn International Film Festival
WATCH VIDEO FOR "4 AM" FROM "SKYHIGH" CD
Margaret Explosion includes three former members of Personal Effects (Peggi Fournier, Paul Dodd and Bob Martin) and one former member of Colorblind James Experience (Ken Frank). Ken also played with Lydia Lunch before she left town. A high res press photo is available by clicking on the "photos" link at the top of the page.
Margaret Explosion - Skyhigh (EAR12)
The cd is available here for $10 (postage included in US). "Skyhigh" features Peggi Fournier on sax, Ken Frank on bass, Bob Martin on guitar, Paul Dodd on drums and Pete LaBonne on piano. The track "Sleep of Reason" is available here as a free download. Click here for more information. The songs from our new cd, "Skyhigh", are now available from the iTunes Store. Sales are brisk but the supply is endless.Three additional full lenth cds are available here, two released under the name "Margaret Explosion" and one released under the name "Invisible Idiot". A live version of Margaret Explosion's "Floating At The Bug Jar" can be heard on the compilation CD, "Live at the Little".
MARGARET EXPLOSION CDS $10
Margaret Explosion - 1969 (EAR10)
"1969" is "so elegant that it's almost not there." says Jeff Spevak in the Democrat & Chronicle. Don't believe the hype. Two free downloads from Margaret Explosion's "1969", are available here - Tip Toe and 1969 (title track). CD includes a version of Personal Effects' "Don't Wake Me". There is a Personal Effects video from MTV on YouTube now. The CD is available here for $10. Click here for more information on this cd.
Margaret Explosion - Happy Hour (EAR09)
City News says, "Margaret Explosion is
an otherworldly lounge band that played an esoteric weekly
Friday night happy hour at the Bug Jar for a year and a
half." Two free downloads from "Happy
Hour" are available here - Floating At The Bug Jar and Kronos.
Three
Chins, an out take from Happy Hour, featuring Phil
Marshall on guitar and no sax is also available. Buy the cd Happy Hour here for $10, Click here for more information.
Invisible Idiot - Outta Sight, Outta Mind (EAR7)
This is the original Margaret Explosion lineup playing under the name "Invisible Idiot". the D&C's
Jeff Spevak says, Invisible Idiot's "Outta Sight, Outta
Mind” sounds like a new release by John Lurrie's great
fake-jazz ensemble, the Lounge Lizards." The Invisible
Idiot cd is a limited-edition CD with a blind embossed cover
(not shown) and features Peggi Fournier, Paul Dodd, (both formally of
the Hi-Techs, Personal
Effects and now Margaret Explosion), Pete LaBonne, Jack Schaefer (Jack
Schaefer still plays occasionally with Margaret Explosion as "Invisible
Explosion" and some current live tracks with Jack are available
by clicking the "downloads" button above) and Shelley
Valachovic." Download three Invisible Idiot tracks here.
Son Of Telly Savalis | Sparky's Shed | Abstract Express
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Take guided tour of Jazz Fest 2007 in Rochester
Margaret Explosion is featured on Live at the Little - EAR11
Recorded live at the Little Theatre Cafe in 2004, this cd features the Brady Miller Trio, The White Hots, Ben Gallina Trio, Margaret Explosion, Trio East, Bob Sneider Duo, Diane Armesto Quartet, and Gene Bertoncini. The "Live at the Little CD" is available here for $12. Click here for more information on this cd.
Listen to a Margaret Explosion's version of the Peggy Lee classic, Fever.
Watch Stephen Black's video for Margaret Explosion's Assembly Line from cd "1969".