Muck and the Mires are an American rock and roll

Rock and roll

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 band. Their music is a cross between the 1964 British Invasion

British Invasion

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 and American garage rock of the 1960s.

Bio

Muck and the Mires began as a studio project by Evan Shore, otherwise known as "Muck". Following the release of his demos in 2001 under the title All Mucked Up on Canadian label AMP Records, a band was assembled with each member stepping into the fictitious pseudonyms listed on the original record jacket.

One of the band's early Boston-area shows was opening for a rare live appearance by Mike Smith

Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five)

Michael George Smith ,was an English singer, songwriter, and music producer.In the 1960s, Smith was the lead vocalist and keyboard player for The Dave Clark Five...

 of The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five

The Dave Clark Five were an English pop rock group. Their single "Glad All Over" knocked The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK singles charts in January 1964: it eventually peaked at No.6 in the United States in April 1964.They were the second group of the British Invasion,...

.

In 2004, the group released its first proper album, Beginner's Muck, once again on the AMP label. That same year, the group was featured on MTV when they became the co-winners of Little Steven's Underground Garage Battle of the Bands. Other 2004 highlights include an appearance at the Las Vegas Rockaround (North America's largest garage rock event) and their first European tour.

In 2006, Dionysus Records (Hollywood, CA) and Soundflat Records (Cologne, Germany) released the album 1-2-3-4. The CD reached the Number One one position on WMBR

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 in Cambridge, MA. The group soon embarked on a 7-country tour to support the album. While in Liverpool, England for a show at the legendary Cavern Club, the group arranged a meeting with former Beatles manager Allan Williams

Allan Williams

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, also known as "the man who gave The Beatles away". Mr. Williams declined the band's offer of a management position.

In late 2007, the band began recording an album with rock legend Kim Fowley

Kim Fowley

Kim Vincent Fowley is an American record producer, impresario, songwriter, musician, film maker, and radio actor. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult rock pop singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s...

 and Maria Baglien at Lo Fi Studios in Loma Linda, CA. These recording sessions were originally supposed to take place in Scotland, but heavy rain destroyed the recording studio where the sessions were booked. In 2008, London

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-based label Dirty Water Records released the four song EP Doreen featuring four of the tracks from the Kim Fowley recordings. In 2009, Dirty Water Records released the Kim Fowley sessions in their entirety as Hypnotic. The band wrapped up 2009 sharing a New Year's Eve show with Roky Erickson

Roky Erickson

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 at the famed Maxwell's

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 in Hoboken, New Jersey

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.

In 2011, Dirty Water Records, distributed by Cargo in Europe and Red Eye in the US will release A Cellarful of Muck produced by Jim Diamond of White Stripes fame.

The band has played shows in Austria

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, Canada

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, Denmark

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, England

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, France

France

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, Germany

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, Holland, Norway

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, Spain

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, Switzerland

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 and the United States

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. They have shared billing with MC5

MC5

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, The New York Dolls, The Bay City Rollers, Ray Davies

Ray Davies

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 of The Kinks

The Kinks

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, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Strokes

The Strokes

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, Mooney Suzuki, Dick Dale

Dick Dale

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, Pete Best

Pete Best

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 of The Beatles

The Beatles

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, The Detroit Cobras

The Detroit Cobras

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, and many more.

Discography

All Mucked Up (2001, AMP Records)

Beginner's Muck (2004, AMP Records)

1-2-3-4 (2006, Dionysus Records)

I'm Down With That (2007, Dirty Water Records, London)

Doreen (2008, Dirty Water Records, London)

Hypnotic (2009, Dirty Water Records, London)

A Cellarful of Muck (2011, Dirty Water Records, London)