Mike Dees

Join the Mike Dees Band at Neil’s March 18th as we play our first live show of the year. We’ve been hard at work in the studio recording the next album and are eager to bring our aggressive brand of melodic power pop back to Memphis. Lately David will be sharing the show for a hook-filled night. Music starts promptly at 10PM.


MIKE DEES
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Mike Dees is a Singer/Songwriter from Memphis, TN. A prolific purveyor of Southern-fried power pop and veteran of many bands, he recently struck out on his own and hasn’t looked back since. Whether playing solo acoustic or with a full-on rock band, he always delivers heartfelt (if slightly acidic) lyrics and ragged jangle rock.

Imagine 1970’s AM rock (Neil Young, America) mixed with British Invasion and Power Pop (Big Star,Teenage Fanclub, Gin Blossoms) filtered through a ragged dose of distorted bliss (Soul Asylum, Husker Du, Guided By Voices). Like a candy-coated razorblade, these pop gems slide down smooth before the internal bleeding of emotion sets in. With these sugary bitter-pop nuggets, you can’t eat just one. Crunch all you want, we’ll make more.

Mike has released an EP in 2007, Buried, and a full-length album in 2008, Unearthed, both from Door 23 Records. He also has songs on all three CD releases from Burning Sky Records (including Beautiful Escape:The Songs of the Posies Revisited, which made music critic and International Pop Overthrow founder David Bash’s Best of 2008 list.) In 2008, he was voted in by readers of the Memphis Flyer to play the Memphis Popfest and appeared on a limited-edition single from Goner Records commemorating the event. 2011 will see the release of the next album (tentatively titled « Something Like Glitter ») and tributes to Squeeze and Toy Love released by Burning Sky Records.

LATELY DAVID
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Pop music played loudly: that phrase appears beneath the band Lately David’s stylized moniker in print as a logo – a catchphrase with a bold swagger and an unfiltered simplicity. For the band, the phrase has become equal parts mission statement and marketing message; a tag line and a goal line, both distilled down to their essences and presented in four simple words. And the concept behind those words – it’s played out both in live performance and on record in the band’s music.

Hernando, Mississippi-based Lately David draws upon influence from the likes of REM, The Who, The Beach Boys, and Memphis, Tennessee’s seminal Big Star to write and perform pop music with wit, attitude and an edge. The band’s live performances feature a loud, brash brand of pop music chock full of material from their two self-released albums that meld the attitude of 1970’s glam, the sounds of 1980’s post-punk, and the hooks of modern pop.

Discover and download the songs of Lately David at www.itunes.com/latelydavid.