Artist description Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Beck, Kula Shaker, The Beatles, David Byrne, The Moody Blues, Nick Cave, Beastie Boys. No. I'm not making a laundry list of my favorite artists. I'm listing the myriad of musical influences that prominently inform the work of Andrew McCutcheon. Since his teens, McCutcheon has recorded original music steeped in existential poetry and eclectic psychedelic shadings. His debut, Out of the Lion's Mouth, captures the mystical essence of Jim Morrison's darkest epic poems and melds them with funk-rhythm tracks to make them almost danceable. His follow-up, Welcome to Periphery, takes this... further and ventures off into a Bowiesque/MoodyBluesy aural tapestry. "Never Break A Psycho's Heart" is funny and perceptive in its twisted frankness , but it's his meandering poetry and unabashed willingness to be off-kilter, kitschy and keen (on insight) that makes his literary music such a pleasure. Different, but familiar. An interesting combination. --Roxanne of Extreme Magazine Andrew McCutcheon has recently relocated to Los Angeles, CA and is currently forming a new band to support his new CD on San Francisco's NMX Records, available at: www.nmxrecords.com. You can contact him at 8721 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 338, West Hollywood, CA 90069, Tel: (310)470-6449. plummeat@aol.com.

Music Style Psychedelic Alternative Rock

Musical Influences The Doors, Thelonius Monk, Captain Beefheart, Stravinstki, William Blake, Hank Williams, Sr.

Similar Artists The Doors, Bowie, Beck, Nick Cave, David Byrne, Lou Reed, Dylan have all been mentioned in reviews.

Artist History So what do you get when you take a lost denizen of the psychedelic sound, steep him in the bowels of symbolist poetry, pepper him with gris gris dust and serve him up lightly garnished with Rap, New Wave and Glitter Rock? Well, it's not just any word-wise retro-grovin'', feedback-driven, organ-glad slab-O-the darker aural delicacies: it's the sound of Andy McCutcheon. Since the 1998 release of his debut CD, Out of the Lion's Mouth, on Plum Meat Music, Andy McCutcheon has quickly grabbed the attention of critics, who have compared him to artists as diverse as Beck, David Bowie, the Doors and David Byrne. He has penetrated the national college radio market, gaining adds on over one hundred top ranking stations, including KLA, Los Angeles, CA; KZSC, Santa Cruz, CA; WRVU, Nashville, TN; WMSE, Milwaukee, WI; and WCDB, Albany, NY. And he has begun to reach an international market through internet radio and retail, becoming a top 10 selling artist in two genres on mp3.com, where he held a #1 chart position for 8 weeks in the Summer of 1999, and three times since! In the Fall of 1999 McCutcheon attended the CMJ conference and showcase in New York where he gained the attention of San Francisco's NMX Records, who would release his first full length project, Welcome to Periphery, the following year. Extreme Magazine called McCutcheon's second effort "a Bowiesque/MoodyBluesy aural tapestry... off-kilter, kitchy and keen (on insight)," comparing him once again to the likes of Morrison, Dylan, Lou Reed and Nick Cave. 2000 also saw McCutcheon appear on several regional and national compilations, including Joe's Grille.com's college radio sampler, Joe's Blue Plate Special, along with Guided by Voices and Pavement. By the year's end, McCutcheon had contributed several tracks, including the theme, to independent film maker Sterling Brown's Blue Angel, slated for release in 2002. He also began playing out regularly in support of his new NMX release, and showcased at the Pennsylvania Millennium Music Conference, where he gained the attention of Megadeth's David Ellefson. Encouraged by Ellefson's enthusiasm and his invitation to submit material to Megadeth's new label and management company, Sanctuary Music, McCutcheon decided to relocate to Los Angeles seeking greater opportunities. By the Summer of 2001, McCutcheon had left his position as a college English instructor, and after selling their home, and more than half of their possessions, McCutcheon, his wife and their daughter found themselves settling into a small canyon home in the hills of West LA. McCutcheon has since resumed recording and is currently playing out in Los Angeles area clubs as a solo artist while assembling his new band. But puting together a band is nothing new to McCutcheon. Since his early teens he has been playing clubs such as D.C.'s legendary Nightclub 9:30 and Baltimore's 8X10, honing the peculiar wit and eclecticism now embodied by his two national releases. By the late eighties, McCutcheon had distinguished himself as front man for The Skeptics, an emerging CD/Baltimore-based band noted for the "controlled musical mayhem and abrasive garage sound" of their live shows, as well as for the "clear melody and vocal power" of their original songs (MD Musician and Bomp/Voxx Records). McCutcheon contributed heavily to the material featured on their Bona Fide/Resonance Records release, Snallygastor, as well as on several national compilations, including Bomp/Voxx's Beasts from the East. By the early 90's, however, McCutcheon's interests turned to poetry, and The Skeptics disbanded when he moved to New Orleans where he would eventually earn his master's in English, teach and concentrate on publishing his poetry. "For whatever reason, I took for granted the immediacy that music holds for me and felt I owed the literary world my eschewed, left-handed, dyslexic perspective," McCutcheon muses. Still interested in poetry, McCutcheon uses his new music as a platform for his love of language, inflating the cadences of rock, rap and spoken word with the non-linear language of surrealism to create a voice that, if not always immediately comprehensible, is at least provocative and always entertaining. And this voice, an unlikely blend of mysticism and kitsch unified by the funky rhythm tracks, groovy organ licks and verbal gymnastics composing these danceable, psychedelic incantations, is bringing Andy McCutcheon out of the Periphery and into the flux.

Group Members Andy McCutcheon,Carmen Chancellor, resident cover artist and wife.

Instruments Vocals, Guitars, Organ, Piano, Bass, Drums.

Albums Out of the Lion's Mouth, Plum Meat Music; Welcome to Periphery, NMX Records.

Press Reviews In the music world, we encounter those rare individuals who see things differently and whose music makes you turn your head and take notice. Andrew McCutcheon is such a visionary. We get the sense listening to [Welcome to Periphery] that he tosses out the rule book when it comes to music... But then, isn't that how rock's most legendary innovators became that way? Welcome to Periphery is an adventurous, fun listen, as McCutcheon demonstrates off-the-wall quirkiness and eccentricity that makes him stand apart from the rest of the pack. --D'Scribe of Final Cut Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Beck, Kula Shaker, The Beatles, David Byrne, The Moody Blues, Nick Cave, Beastie Boys. No. I'm not making a laundry list of my favorite artists. I'm listing the myriad of musical influences that prominently inform the work of Andrew McCutcheon. Since his teens, McCutcheon has recorded original music steeped in existential poetry and eclectic psychedelic shadings. His debut, Out of the Lion's Mouth, captures the mystical essence of Jim Morrison's darkest epic poems and melds them with funk-rhythm tracks to make them almost danceable. His follow-up, Welcome to Periphery, takes this... further and ventures off into a Bowiesque/MoodyBluesy aural tapestry. "Never Break A Psycho's Heart" is funny and perceptive in its twisted frankness , but it's his meandering poetry and unabashed willingness to be off-kilter, kitschy and keen (on insight) that makes his literary music such a pleasure. Different, but familiar. An interesting combination. --Roxanne of Extreme Magazine Sort of a Steve Kilbey merged with Jim Morrison... Out of the Lion's Mouth is the perfect party CD for those that want to hear some hypnotic music that you could either dance to or simply sit and enjoy. It's atmospheric enough to really get your mind in fast motion but diverse enough that you want to hear it again as soon as it's over. --Sandy Mason of FrightX. Apparently a desciple of The Doors, Michael Oldfield and Beck, AndrewMcCutcheon combines various influences as a true Renaissance man. McCutcheon takes some chances and sounds like a potpourri of '60sand '70s icons. ...as a yardstick of McCutcheon's capability, it'sindicative of a talented composer finding his voice. --KimCrawford of RockPile ...Part '60s, part '70s, all '90s, the rhythm section here is very modern,while the song structure is rooted heavily in the past. McCutcheonpulls off a Morrison style without actually trying to sound like him. This makes the performance quite genuine and interesting. --Music Street Journal ...This is the perfect party CD for those that want to hear some hypnoticmusic that you could either dance to or simply sit and enjoy. It'satmospheric enough to really get your mind in fast motion but diverseenough that you want to hear it again as soon as it's over. --SandyMason of FrightX

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Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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