New Rage CD on iTunes and CD Baby and Mark Mallman Show on Saturday, June 21st!!!

If you would like to purchase our new self titled album, Mercurial Rage, from iTunes, simply open iTunes and search for Mercurial Rage.

For those of you from the "old school" who would like a hard copy of our disc, simply click on either of these links to make a purchase:

toneVENDOR

or

CDbaby

For those of you that were unable to attend our CD Party, we will be playing with our good friends Mark Mallman and The Strange Lights on Saturday, June 21st at The 7th Street Entry! We are playing second, and I will fill you in with the exact details as they arise.

**Please note, due to various Summer vacations in Rage Land, this will be our last show until August 1st.

Therefore, come out and see some of the best local music in town on Saturday, June 21st at The 7th Street Entry!!!**

Lastly, I would like to note that we will be heading back into the studio sometime in July to complete tracks for our unreleased full length record due out sometime in late 2008 or early 2009.

Although this seems crazy, it feels good to be writing and recording, and we promise these new tunes are going to rock your world!!!

Love Always

TheRage

Mercurial Rage CD/Video Release Party Tonight!!

Mercurial Rage will be premiering their new video for Give it Up at the Fine Line for their CD Party. This event will take place prior to their set, which gives you even another reason to come out and hang with TheRage on tonight!!!

Also, we have yet to hear a song from the new record on 89.3 The Current, and we would love your help making that happen.

Mercurial Rage would be grateful if you would take the time to request a song from our new self titled record, Mercurial Rage.
(Released on June 7th @ The Fine Line Music Cafe)

Posted on their myspace account are Give it Up and Moonlight from the new record. For super fans, you can also pick Situation or Out of Control. Please take a listen to these and choose which one you like.

Then click on this link:

http://www.publicradio.org/applications/formbuilder/user/form_display.php?form_code=e7d78b6c2e2d

Request one of those tunes, and let them know how much you love them in the comments!!!

And do not forget...

Mercurial Rage will celebrate its self-titled second album with a release party on Saturday, June 7, at the Fine Line Music Cafe (318 First Ave. N, Minneapolis).

The Minneapolis-based band latest release comes on the heels of its critically acclaimed The Funeral Sessions, which debuted last June.

Mercurial Rage includes two remixes from The Funeral Sessions and four original tracks with lyrics written by Chris Hill.

"The new record is a benchmark for the bands creative process," Christopher Church said. "These are songs we had been working on in the months prior to putting out our last record. As soon as the last record dropped we wasted no time in getting into the studio to do this follow up."

"Mercurial Rage has always had the melancholy dance element, Michael Di'Greggario added. "But this release adds a dash of pure rock and soul to the mix to give us a distinct voice that I believe we have been aspiring toward."

Mercurial Rage, which hit the local music scene three years ago, consists of lead vocalist Michael Di'Greggario, bassist Christopher Church (former member of Lunar 9 and Medication), keyboardist Brock Landers and guitarist Butch McQueen (former member of The TV Sound and Medication).

The band recently signed with MPLS Ltd., a Minneapolis-based record label that includes musical acts First Communion Afterparty, Basement Apartment and The Flavor Crystals.

Mercurial Rage was recorded at Flowers Studios, produced and engineered by Ed Ackerson (Polara, 27 Various, The Dig, Sideways).

Mercurial Rage CD Release Party

Doors: 8:00 p.m.
Showtime: 9:00 p.m.

Date: Saturday, June 7

Place: Fine Line Music Cafe; 318 First Avenue North, Minneapolis

Lineup:
1. The Mood Swings - 9:00pm
2. White Light Riot - 10:00pm
3. Mercurial Rage - 11:00pm
4. The Alarmists - 12:00am

Mercurial Rage on the Web

Band Official Web site: www.mercurialrage.com
MySpace.com site: http://www.myspace.com/mercurialrage

An Interview with Michael Di'Greggario of Mercurial Rage

An Interview with Michael Di'Greggario of Mercurial Rage on 6/4/08
By: David Rachac

Excerpt:

HWTS: Walk me through your writing process -- how do you get from the first inkling of an idea to a complete song?


MD: The writing process with our current lineup is like clockwork. Using “Moonlight” as an example, Chris had a drum beat in his head that needed to be laid down electronically. Therefore, he rushed over to Butch's place and they created the timing, sound and basic arrangement for the song. A few days later, we demoed this song as a band out in Butch's home studio, writing the bass, guitar and keyboards. Chris always has the lyrics and melodies in his head, so while Butch is doing his guitar takes, Chris is writing down the lyrics on a random piece of paper that he finds on the floor. After that, he brings me to the side of the room, sings it for me once or twice, and I lay down the vocals. We cut and print our template for “Moonlight,” listen to it at home and start jamming it out at practice the following week. This is often how it happens, but all of us have written things electronically that Chris the "Architect" turns into pop magic. If there was one thing that Mercurial Rage does not have a problem with, it is writing music. In fact, we are currently in the studio recording a full-length’s worth of new tracks that we wrote!

Read the full interview now at How Was the Show!

Critics' Picks

Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses is old enough to be legally served a drink this year, but as it and many of its counterparts age, they seem to influence more and more bands. DM's title was meant as irony, but it has become more and more apparent that many who listened took that title at face value and decided to carry the torch. Mercurial Rage are near the top of this ever-growing heap, taking careful steps to separate the wheat from the chaff along the way. The bitter, wry wit is still in place as are the pounding synth hooks and sharp, crystalline guitars that saturated the new wave countryside. Gone, however, are the overdone, bleached-out haircuts and the godawful fashion choices so often associated with the original new wave band template. (Why did tapered pants, skinny ties, and too-big, boxy sport coats look good together again?) This, of course, erases any feelings of nostalgia you feel for the good ol' days of British synth-pop. Mercurial Rage aren't British; they were born during the era they are referencing and they give fuckall about the look (or any look really). All of which is to say: They have taken a good thing and made it better. With the Alarmists, White Light Riot, and the Mood Swings. 18+. $8. 8 p.m. 318 First Ave. N, Minneapolis; 612.338.8100. —Pat O'Brien

City Pages, June 4th, 2008

Polara "Beekeeping" Album Release Show with The Alarmists, The Mood Swings and Mercurial Rage

Kind words from andrew of We Heart Music:

Just two weeks short of 13 years since I'd first seen Polara, I visited Minneapolis' Varsity Theater to see if they were still the band I remembered so fondly.

Their first opener, Mercurial Rage, performed an entertaining, if not amazing, electro-rock set. Being the fashionably late sort, I actually missed most of it, so it wouldn't be fair to judge them entirely, but I did see some potential there and certainly didn't dislike what I saw. The Faint meets INXS, perhaps. They seemed a bit like a work in progress. I'll definitely have to check them out again down the line.