Live Music: Mike Mains & The Branches

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Date/Time:Friday, 25 Sep 2015 at 9:00 pm
Location:The Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union
Cost:$8 Students / $12 Public
URL:http://www.sub.iastate.edu/en/calendar/
Contact:Jim Brockpahler
Phone:515-294-2772
Channel:Student Union Board
Categories:Arts, performances Student activities
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Formed in Texas-- flourishing in Detroit, this indie rock collective has spent the last few years making waves around and in-between.

Following the release of their debut album, Home, Mike Mains & the Branches used their unique sound, captivating live performances and relentless touring to carve out a firm place for themselves in the hearts of indie rock music fans everywhere.

Spring 2013 brought them an exceedingly successful Pledge Music campaign in which their fans funded 119% of their $35K goal, allowing the band to record their sophomore record, Calm Down, Everything Is Fine.

The time-frame surrounding the recording of Calm Down was by the far the most challenging and most rewarding experience of the bands' career thus far--between getting their van and trailer stolen, re-recording the entire album, band members coming and going, they truly couldn't have chosen a more fitting album title.

And despite it all, they captured that tension and channeled it-- in the form of 11 brand new songs that they are excited to finally share with the world.

In 2014, the band self-released Calm Down, Everything Is Fine, which debuted at #15 on the Billboard Top New Artist Albums Chart. New York Minute Mag said it best: "In a time of Bieberesque silliness and hipster pretention, Mike Mains & The Branches are a voice of reason."