Basic Information
Label: Mud Dauber Records
Members: Randall Davis, Jason T. Lewis, Chad Chopard, Mick Hargreaves, Dave Stengel, Steve Junge
Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear
Iowa City, IA
Rock / Powerpop / Punk Rock
Bio
Matthew Grimm has been beating his head against the wall of this asshole-ridden "business" for fifteen years and is seriously re-considering whether he has the youthful verve and zeal to continue to whore himself and his songs. He writes and performs music solo and with his band the Red Smear, plus occasionally with his old band The Hangdogs. This would seem a pointless fucking venture in a day and age when one's capacity to rock, as it were, is measured on fake plastic guitars attached to ga...
Press
“This is hands-down the funniest album of the year. It might also be the best. Matthew Grimm is the populist that Springsteen probably wishes he still was – over a pummeling highway rock backdrop, one part Social Distortion stomp, one part turbocharged Bottle Rockets barroom roar, he drops one direct hit after another on religious fanatics, Wall Street swindlers and the system that allowed them to take power in the first place. If the Dead Kennedys had survived Tipper Gore’s assault and traded in the surf rock for Americana, they might sound something like this.
Like Stephen Colbert, Grimm’s satire knows no bounds. He’s been as formidable a social critic as songwriter since his days in the 90s and early zeros fronting twangy New York rockers the Hangdogs and this time out he spares no one, and despite the full-frontal assault he’s a lot subtler than it might seem.”
Artist Stats
Fans: 2,272
Song Plays: 141
Visits: 610
Video Plays: 19
Widget Hits: 3
Status
Status:
is increasingly convinced that people who know better than me will likely destroy us all.
Blog
A Fundamentalist Is a Fundamentalist Is a Fundamentalist
Aug 19, 2010 at 02:08 AM
Matthew Grimm will giddily abide you making a big stupid deal about Islamic cultural centers as long as we can shut down your fucking churches and MBA programs the next time YET ANOTHER Christian/Libertarian psychotic shoots doctors or cops, advocates the violent overthrow of the government or bombs a federal building in Oklahoma City. If Jesus's l...
