![]() ![]() “The Gus” is his sixth full-length solo release. In the wake of her death, Stipe, Yorke, Dinosaur Jr., Frank Black of the Pixies, the National, Chris Collingwood of Fountains of Wayne, and Price’s band Winterpills were among the artists who recorded songs for “Ciao My Shining Star,” a tribute album intended to help support Mulcahy while he raised twin daughters and continued to make music.Īfter returning with a new album in 2013, Mulcahy reunited with Polaris for tours in 2014-15, and then Miracle Legion in 2016-17, and resumed releasing solo albums in 2017. Mulcahy has been doing it for more than 35 years, starting with Miracle Legion and continuing in the ’90s with Polaris, a sort of house band for the Nickelodeon TV show “The Adventures of Pete & Pete.” His solo career began in 1997 and yielded three albums before going dormant for nearly five years when his wife, Melissa, died unexpectedly in 2008. Full of weird, fully developed characters, which is something I’ve never been able to pull off in my own writing, so I greatly admire those who can.” ![]() His songs intriguingly opaque but intimate. “Mark is just one of those utterly unique voices in rock - inimitable. Price, a Northampton musician who has known Mulcahy for years (and opens the show at Café 939). “In my mind, I am stealing from him constantly,” says Philip B. His sensibility hasn’t made him as famous as some of his fans, including Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Thom Yorke of Radiohead, and J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., who contributes guitar to a track on “The Gus.” Yet Mulcahy is influential in his own way, with a tight circle of collaborators and admirers centered in the Western Massachusetts music scene. “It’s not a poem, it’s not a short story, it isn’t any of those things. “When you start singing it, it becomes a different thing,” he says.
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