Mammoth Life
Happy New Year!! (December 2011 - January 2012) Submitted by Mammoth Life on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 14:49

Here's to the bonafide year that 2011 turned out to be!!  With the release of our Rock N' Roll Kids - EP, a successful Kickstarter campaign, complete tour of the entire midwest, west, and west coast, and a cross country move from Lawrence to San Francisco; ML couldn't be happier.  But as always... with every mountaintop scaled, there still lies even more still to be tackled.  We are intent on continuing our acsent; rung by rung/ song by song/ note by note.  Thanks to everyone who made this possible, our family, friends, and extended family, ie all the bands along the way.

 

Thank you Hospital Ships, Jumbling Towers, Talking Mountain, Cloud Dog, Cowboy Indian Bear, Panda Circus, Haunt Ananta, Kissing Party, Musical Charis, Bellafonte, Ornery Little Darlings, Fingers Of The Sun, The Black Fortys, Continents, High Diving Ponies, Tut Tut, Sleeping In The Aviary, Little Brazil, and all of the other countless bands who helped us have a bunch of kick ass shows in 2011.

 

Thanks to the Lawrence Music Scene and all the venues (Jackpot, Replay, Taproom, Record Bar) record stores (Love Garden, Kieffs) publications (I Heart Local Music, Larryville Chronicles, lawrence.com, The Pitch, Too Much Rock, and Oh! Snap! Photography) and radio stations (96.5 The Buzz aka Sonic Spectrum, 90.7 FM KJHK) for your support and love.  We miss you all already!

 

Also, thanks to Mates Of State for your invaluable and intangible acts of inspiration.  Thanks for the "nudge" towards SF.

 

 

We ushered in 2012 with some of our closest friends, Bradly and Joe from Haunt Ananta, who visisted us in SF for a week.  They are currently residing in Lawrence working on some killer jams.  Thanks for everything homies!  See you sooner rather than later I hope!!

 

 

2012 is already looking very promising!!  We've been writing new songs and building demos for our upcoming third full-length album.  This release will be self-titled, simply Mammoth Life.  Not exactly sure when it will be released... but we are spending a great amount of time, energy, and effort assembling the pieces to the puzzle right now as we speak.  We are also at the moment, interviewing a handful of SF and Bay Area drummer and bass players with the hopes of performing many shows with ML as a four piece in and around the Bay Area over the next year.  Rehearsals and practice will begin within the next few weeks... look for shows from us sometime in February/ March!!

 

 

Here's to having the best year to-date in ML's career this year!!  We look forward to sharing it with all of you in the coming months.  

Satisfying Records/ ML 2011 Tour Dates Announced Submitted by Mammoth Life on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 12:18

 

Satisfying Records 2nd catalogue release will be Mammoth Life's upcoming Rock N' Roll Kids - EP due out on July 28th, 2011 w/ a release party and tour kickoff that night at The Jackpot Music Hall in Lawrence, KS w/ Cowboy Indian Bear and Cloud Dog!!  The EP was recorded w/ Mike Giffin and Alex Bork in Lawrence from October 2010 to April 2011.  The release was mixed in LA by Giffin and mastered in Omaha by Doug Van Sloun and Focus Mastering.  The track listing is as follows:

 

 

#1 "(Small Town) Rock N' Roll Kids"
#2 "Life In The Ring"
#3 "Tightrope Walker"
#4 "An Oasis In The Midwest"
#5 "Making Moves"

 

Following the release party at the Jackpot, Mammoth Life will be on the road for a month and half from July to September touring the entire midwest, west and west coast.  Hitting such notable cities as San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Dallas to name a few!!  ML's 2011 Tour Dates have been announced below.

Satisfying Records website is now active and can be found at www.satisfyingrecords.com {twitter, facebook, and myspace profiles are up too}

 

ML 2011 Tour

 

7/16 - Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
7/28 - Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
7/29 - Wichita, KS @ Kirby's Beer Store
7/30 - Omaha, NE @ O'leavers Pub
7/31 - Lincoln, NE @ Duffy's Tavern
8/2 - Des Moines, IA @ Vaudville Mews
8/3 - Iowa City, IA @ Public Space One
8/5 - Chicago, IL @ Red Line Tap
8/6 - St. Louis, MO @ Cicero's
8/7 - Norman, OK @ Othello's
8/9 - Dallas, TX @ 2826 Arnetic
8/12 - Albuquerque, NM @ Burt's Tiki Lounge
8/13 - Tucson, AZ @ Plush
8/15 - Scottsdale, AZ @ Rogue Bar
8/17 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
8/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ AMPLYFi
8/19 - Long Beach, CA @ Viento Agua Coffee House
8/23 - San Francisco, CA @ El Rio
8/25 - Berkeley, CA @ Starry Plough
8/26 - Sacramento, CA @ Naked Lounge
8/30 - Cottage Grove, OR @ Axe & Fiddle
8/31 - Portland, OR @ Dante's
9/1 - Seattle, WA @ Tiger Lounge
9/3 - Denver, CO @ Lion's Lair

 

This Is Our Year Submitted by Mammoth Life on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 21:41

"...Nobody ever said it'd be easy... everybody's always had to fight to be free. Life in the ring, prize fighting, we're on our toes dancing and swaying." ...Amidst a significant roster change last summer while touring the west coast in 2010, a cross country planned band move this fall to San Francisco, a 40 date MidWest, West, and West Coast tour this summer, and a handful of releases during January to July of 2011... Mammoth Life's had/ and are having quite the year.
 

"Tightrope Walker" was self-released digitally this past January, and is the first single, from the band's upcoming self-titled, third album due out in July; a promo video for the single is soon to follow in the next week or so along w/ a rooftop release for the band's brand new EP, Rock N' Roll Kids out this May... new product is dropping at a significant rate at the moment and we are very excited to share with you all our latest efforts.
 

Mammothlife.com is now up and live and we'll be featuring regular updates w/ more and more live summer dates surfacing... right now you can count on Lawrence, Chicago, San Diego, Denver, Tucson & Phoenix, as well as Kansas City, Des Moines and Lincoln... more dates soon.
 

This is an exciting time for us, as we are resolving our six year stint as Lawrence residents and moving ML to San Francisco this October. It is bitter sweet for us as we love this city, but feel a strong calling out west. We are not saying goodbye, merely making moves and promising to be back for more shows in the coming years.
 

To dreaming, seeing, and believing.
 

ML