Budapest’s THE MOOG prep to release their sophomore album next week and much is happening as Razzmatazz Orfeum nears its July 21st street date. Razzmatazz Orfeum track "You Raised A Vampire" will be featured in the new buzz heavy indie film SUCK: THE MOVIE, featuring Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper & Henry Rollins. Full-album preview streams and CD giveaways also surround the band that Geo Hagan of China Shop Magazine calls “A Gogol Bordello for the Hip, Spiffy Set.”
Tonyo will be taking a break from The Moog’s run of European festival dates and doing pre-production for their upcoming Fall U.S. Tour.
The Moog are currently Amplifier Magazine’s “Amplified Artist” this week. You can preview the full-album stream of Razzmatazz Orfeum as well as an interview with our Hungarian lads at: http://amplifiermagazine.com/amplified/the_moog.php
10 copies of Razzmatazz Orfeum are also being given away from our friends at Music-News.com:
http://www.music-news.com/index.asp
The Moog single “You Raised A Vampire” has been released on 7" clear gold vinyl with a b-side cover of “The Passion Of Lovers” by Bauhaus with special guest DAVID J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets). The video is also getting substantial airplay all over the country, including Havoc TV & JBTV, was just added to mtvU and MTV Latin America and is also getting love from FUSE.
In discussing the new single, Billboard rock scribe Christa Titus professes, “These charming new-millennium romantics propel ‘You Raised a Vampire’ with rich synth waves, but also set off their guitars like sirens, making them attractive to rockers and popsters alike.”
"You Raised A Vampire" will be featured in the new Rob Stefaniuk-directed film SUCK: The Movie. The indie film about rock ‘n’ roll misfits in search of fame and vampires is due out this Fall and features Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Malcolm McDowell, Dave Foley and Henry Rollins.
“You Raised A Vampire” - video.
They’re a "Hard-rockin’ Budapest, Hungary quintet,” exclaims Jack Rabid from The Big Takeover. “These guys can flat out play, and were they actually from London—they’d be huge already. Make way!”
THE MOOG are an explosive combination of alternative rock, 60s garage, art and post punk made unique by the band’s catchy Eastern European pop touch. The highly anticipated second album, to be released in both CD and LP formats, was recorded in Seattle with producer Geoff Ott (Pearl Jam, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mark Lanegan) and offers the listener something quite uncommon in this day and age: the immersion of a total album experience.
The band is not only a fashionable bunch, their perspective on American music and culture is quite interesting. Soviet rule prevented previous generations from being exposed to the artists that influenced the young quintet, but THE MOOG were raised by MTV and the western alternative bands it played, such as Nirvana, Sonic Youth and Blur.
They were criticized by the old establishment in their native country, and are pioneers to their homeland rock brethren by being the first popular Hungarian band to sing in English and tour Western Europe and the U.S.
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