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There comes a day when shitty little clubs and small acoustic shows get a little redundant for music fans — no matter how great the bands are. Sure, there’s great intensity in a good local rock show, ...

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DJ Shadow was like the Mozart of sampling,” Mute Math’s keyboardist/singer Paul Meany says earnestly. The New Orleans musician says Shadow sparked his musical interest as a teen and continues to ...

New Orleans quartet MuteMath is one of the few currently commercially viable rock bands that truly seems undefinable. Though the group creates the kind of melodies that are punchy and memorable enough ...

Better than: Watching Spinal Tap’s Experimental Jazz Odyssey… well, almost better. It was clear that when Mutemath started its set that it would be playing new songs–lots of ’em. And it was clear that ...

"Armistice," New Orleans alt-rock quartet Mutemath's second album for Teleprompt/Warner Bros. Records, entered Billboard's Top 200 album chart at No. 18. "Armistice," recorded in part in a house on ...

Mutemath made the rounds of late-night TV -- Letterman, Kimmel, Leno, Conan, Ferguson. Many months of touring included a stint as the opening act on a Matchbox Twenty/Alanis Morissette arena tour. By ...

To be a musician and hail from New Orleans this year is to have the world’s ear — up to a point. That very same world would probably demand that your group have some kind of universally recognizable ...

New Orleans-based Mute Math has traveled a long road to reach the seemingly sudden success of its major-label debut. Vocalist/keytarist Paul Meany, drummer Darren King and bassist Roy ...

Fun fact: Meany, Mitchell-Cardenas and King previously played together in Earthsuit, a band that combined rock, reggae, funk, hip-hop and jazz. Why they’re worth watching: Mute Math is a grassroots, ...

MuteMath, Monday night at the Alabama Theatre in Birmingham. Review rating: Four out of five stars. Who: MuteMath, four high-intensity players from New Orleans. Their music is catchy and earnest, ...