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Article: Album Review

Garage a Trois: Always Be Happy But Stay Evil

Read "Always Be Happy But Stay Evil" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
May 1, 2011

Once the most cerebral of groovemeisters, when guitarist Charlie Hunter collaborated with saxophonist Skerik, vibraphonist Mike Dillon and drummer Stanton Moore, Garage a Trois reinvented itself two years ago when keyboardist Marco Benevento took the guitarist's place, a process that now continues with Always Be Happy But Stay Evil. In contrast to the kamikaze ...

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Garage A Trois: Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil

by Chris May
April 15, 2011

Garage A TroisAlways Be Happy, But Stay EvilRoyal Potato Family2011 The story of jazz/rock cominglings is a not a happy one, strewn, as it is, with compromise and the middle ground. But it does include some happy chapters, several of them set in the modern jam band ...

News: Recording

Garage A Trois Announce New Album & Tour Dates

April 1, 2011

On April 12, Garage A Trois will release Always Be Happy, But Stay Evil via Royal Potato Family. Aptly described by photographer John Margaretten as “a transformative, punkalectic, pornographic seizure of sight and sound," the modern day post rock/freak jazz supergroup will support the album with west and east coast tour dates in April and May. ...

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The Dead Kenny Gs: Operation Long Leash

Read "Operation Long Leash" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 26, 2011

The powerhouse trio known as The Dead Kenny Gs answers the musical question: can a jazz band have an uplift mofo party plan? With its collective experience, the group certainly can take the music one step beyond. Like their inspired namesakes, the 1970/80s punk band The Dead Kennedys, saxophonist Skerik, drummer/vibraphonist Mike Dillon, and ...

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People Gardens

By Mike Dillon

Label: Love Records
Released: 2010

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Garage a Trois: Power Patriot

Read "Power Patriot" reviewed by Chris Kompanek

by Chris Kompanek
December 8, 2009

The lines between jazz and rock can become blurred inside of a really good groove. That's exactly what happens on Garage a Trois' Power Patriot. In spite of its hokey title with red state overtones, the ten songs it contains are tightly constructed jams composed largely by Mike Dillon and pianist Marco Benevento, whose own trio ...

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Garage A Trois: Power Patriot

Read "Power Patriot" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 10, 2009

The music of Garage A Trois is located somewhere on the map between do-it-yourself punk fusion and hip-hop jamband. The current lineup replaces guitarist Charlie Hunter, heard on Outre Mer (Telarc, 2006) and Emphasizer (Tone Cool, 2003), with keyboardist Marco Benevento. The effect is to push the music more towards saxophonist Skerik's prior efforts in the ...

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Battery Milk

By Mike Dillon

Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: GoGo

Song of the Day

GoGos Theme

May 8, 2007

Album: Battery Milk
By Mike Dillon
Label: Hyena Records
Released: 2007
Duration: 6:39

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Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle: Battery Milk

Read "Battery Milk" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
April 19, 2007

Vibraphonist Mike Dillon has a very good idea (which is much more than is needed to make a record these days). Dillon's idea is to make a kind of distorted around the edges, loud, vibes-based funk-rock. Perhaps the finest example on this, his début recording, is “Broc's Last Stand." It's the presence of the vibes that ...