Christmas Praise

The Tone King gave a real lovely write-up about the holiday song "It's Christmas". Read the full post here.

Today I'd like to share some regional finds. Starting in the north, from Minneapolis, MN we have Mercurial Rage. This is a Christmas song they shared on their My Space page, so I don't believe it has been released on a CD. Their influences range from Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Psychedelic Furs, A Flock of Seagulls, and among others. It adds up to a very nice sound, and great original Christmas tune.

Be sure to link over and thank him in the comments!

Mercurial Rage LIVE This Saturday 12/29 @ The Turf Club

Turf Club Holiday Dance Party Revolution w/ So it Goes, The Mood Swings, and Farewell Circuit!

This is guaranteed to be a night filled with debauched mirth and Baccanalian merriment.

Farewell Circuit at 9:30
Mercurial Rage at 10:30
So it Goes at 11:30
The Mood Swings at 12:30

Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 9:00pm
The Turf Club
1601 University Ave
St Paul, MN 55104

We look forward to seeing you there. Clothing is optional.

Love,
The Rage

LIVE 12/29 The Turf Club

Mercurial Rage live at the Turf Club
Turf Club Holiday Dance Party Revolution w/ So it Goes, The Mood Swings, and Farewell Circuit!

Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 9:00pm
The Turf Club
1601 University Ave
St Paul, MN 55104

Love

TheRage

PS-If you have not downloaded the Mercurial Rage holiday song "It's Christmas" please do so within the next 6 days :)

Christmas Song FREE Download!!!

Rage Heads,

We are proud to announce that we have written, recorded, and posted a Christmas Song as a FREE Download!!! The song is titled "It's Christmas" and we hope that listening to it brings you as much holiday cheer as it did for us to record it.

So simply click on our MySpace page and Download (FOR FREE) the limited edition Mercurial Rage song "It's Christmas" from now until December 26th!!!

Lastly, please check out our events calender, and note that our next show is on 12/29 at the Turf Club with So it Goes and The Mood Swings. This is also a show in which Peter Anderson will be joining us as a special guest on the Drums! We will keep you posted on the details as they arise.

Happy Holidays!

Love

TheRage

The Strange Lights - A Must See Band!!!

RageHeads,

If you have yet to see The Strange Lights in encourage you to do so ASAP.

www.myspace.com/thestrangelights

Love

TheRage

Mercurial Rage Live in Chicago Tonight!

Dearest Chi-Town Lovers,

Mercurial Rage will be returning to Chicago this Saturday (11/17) at Goose Island to play a show with our dearest Windy City friends The Dundrearies, along with White Buffalo is Born! We will be hitting the stage around 11:00pm, but we encourage you to get there early to have some pre-show cocktails with us. If you are not from the Chicagoland area but know of people who reside there, we would greatly appreciate your help letting them know about TheRage.

Love Always

TheRage
www.mercurialrage.com

Goose Island
3535 N Clark St
Chicago, Illinois 60657

White Buffalo is Born (Opener)
Mercurial Rage
Dundrearies (Headliner)

Rock Show!

Mercurial Rage would like to announce our triumphant return to the Uptown Bar Saturday, November 10, 2007. We will be sharing the stage with Mankato's very own Austin Scarlet, Post Punk New Wave masters Maps of Norway, and to top it off ZibraZibra will be spreading their musical mastery all around the club. If you have not seen any of these bands, I guarantee you will NOT be disappointed. Showtime is at 9:30pm, and TheRage will be hitting the stage at precisely 11:30pm.

Secondly, we would appreciate your support on requesting songs from the Funeral Sessions to be played on 89.3 The Current. Please use the below link and request your favorite song from the album.

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

Lastly, if you have yet to purchase the Funeral Sessions, it is available on iTunes, CD Baby, Napster and copious amounts of other digital formats. Simply Google Mercurial Rage and pick your favorite place to purchase the record.

Also if you have yet to purchase the critically acclaimed split 7inch with Belgium's very own Velvet Underwear, you can purchase one from us, or at http://mplsltd.com/music/.

We thank you so much for your support and we look very much forward to seeing you on Saturday night!!!

Love

TheRage
www.mercurialrage.com

Mercurial Rage Live at the Uptown Bar
Uptown Bar
3018 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55408
(612) 823-4719
Cost $5.00

Austin Scarlet 9:30pm
Maps of Norway 10:30pm
Mercurial Rage 11:30pm
ZibraZibra 12:30pm

Ragefest

After taking the month of September off from gigging, the boys of Mercurial Rage were back, headlining the Oktoberfestivities at Club Jager. Michael DiGreggario also did an interview with J Francis Radio. Missed the broadcast? For a limited time you can still listen. Check out the Radio Tower and click on "Fri Oct 5 Prt 2".

Listening Lounge

Mercurial Rage and DJ Christian Fritz will be joining Todd Melby on KFAI's program Listening Lounge this coming Monday, September 17th, at 7 p.m. Central Time, for a full 30 minutes!

Give Thanks

It's not just good manners to thank people for a job well done. It also creates a sense of goodwill and encourages continued focus on the subject for which they're being thanked. So thank the soundman at the Fine Line when he gives Mercurial Rage the best sound they've yet had. Thank Ed Ackerson for a fantastic surprise performance of Judas Priest's "Living After Midnight" during the extremely rockin' Melismatics set. Thank the fan that that sought out the Rage boys for their autograph after the show.

And what about the radio? The piece from "The World" is now archived. Be sure to thank the show via theworld@pri.org for supporting the Super Split Singles Club. Contact Minnesota Public Radio to thank them for airing "The World" and to request that they play Mercurial Rage on The Current. Thank Todd Melby melby@bitstream.net for doing the story and choosing Mercurial Rage as the local Minneapolis band to focus on.

Thank the KFAI program MN Soundtrack MNSoundtrack@gmail.com for playing The Funeral Sessions last week. Thank the Radio K program Off the Record for choosing Mercurial Rage as their Local Kebut in July and to request that they continue to support them with additional airings of other songs.

And thanks to you for helping to spread the music of Merc Rage across the airwaves!

A Fine Evening

Cake! Butch McQueen surprised Chris Church with a birthday cake at the Kitty Cat Klub. There was even a lovely audience singalong of Happy Birthday in the middle of the set on Saturday night. Shout out to birthday girl Amanda, too! There most likely won't be any frosting-covered festivities at the Fine Line on Thursday (on stage at least) but it will definitely be a dancetastic show! Come down!

Fine Line Music Café
August 30, 2007
The Melismatics
White Light Riot
Mercurial Rage

Doors 8pm
Music 9pm
$5 Cover

mpls ltd takes over The World!!

Public Radio International's "The World" did a Global Hit segment about the mpls ltd super split singles club. It should be airing sometime this week - probably Wednesday at 7pm. DJ Christian Fritz, members of Estonia's Tartu Popi ja Roki Instituut, Belgium's Velvet Underwear, and Minneapolis' own Mercurial Rage were all interviewed for this story!

Find out where you can catch "The World" locally: Stations

After the story airs, you will be able to access the story directly on the Global Hit archive.

Keep watching this space for more details as they become available.

Weekend of Rawk!

This Saturday is Chris Church's birthday! There are not one but two chances to celebrate with him. The Rage will be making their way down to Mankato for a Friday night show and playing here in Minneapolis on Saturday. Strap on your dancin' shoes!

What's Up Lounge
08-24-2007 | Austin Scarlett
w/ So It Goes, Mercurial Rage, Capitol Sons, Accident Waiting To Happen
$6 | 6 PM | All Ages

Kitty Cat Klub
25 SAT 9PM $5
Landing Gear
Mercurial Rage
The Dundrearies (Chicago, Il)

Video Star

Do you have any camera or cell phone video of Mercurial Rage in concert? Upload it to YouTube! Check out this snippet from April, 2006.

World News

Tonight Mercurial Rage was going to convene at the swank loft apartment of Butch McQueen to record an interview for BBC World radio. And then tragedy struck. Clearly the journalist had another story to cover. Our hearts go out to all those that were injured and lost loved ones. Please check in here so we know that you're OK.

Or come down to Clubhouse Jager on Friday to see everyone in person!

Aug 3 2007 10:00P
Free live music w/MERCURIAL RAGE & SO IT GOES!!!

How was the show?

Are you going down to see Mercurial Rage play at the Triple Rock tonight? Afterwards, try visiting the forums at How Was the Show and offering your opinion of the performance!



There are great reviews on the site, too, like this one of the fabulous England Swings show in May. Check them out and spend some time learning about the vibrant Minneapolis/St. Paul music scene!

Mr. Rock n Roll

Once upon a time, Chris Church was in a band called Lunar 9 ("good pop music for riding around in a UFO" -- Chris Strouth). This band had a gig at a local bar but Chris Church had a problem. He had an abscessed tooth. Seeing as how it was a holiday weekend, the emergency dentist did not give him a full root canal, instead prescribing Vicodin. Chris Church played the gig anyway and ended up earning the nickname Mr. Rock n Roll.

Chris Church will once again be playing a show on Vicodin (this time prescribed for cellulitis). Come see Mr. Rock n Roll and the rest of the lads at the Turf Club, this Friday at 9pm!

Friday, July 27, 2007

Revolver Modele
Mercurial Rage
The Lonely H
A Night in the Box

9:00 | $5

Mercurial Rage Meet Chicago

Did you miss the big Spring 2007 Merc Rage gig in Chicago? Wish you could have gone? Don't fret, here's some pics of the lads goofing with the Space Hooker. She was kind enough to put them up during their stay.

On The Record

Originally published July 6-19, 2007 in Lavender Magazine, Issue 316. Story by Ed Huyck.



The Funeral Sessions
Mercurial Rage

Ah, the ’80s. A time of bad hair, worse fashions, and lots of interesting musical subgenres. Local artists Mercurial Rage purvey icy-cold European synth pop à la New Order or Depeche Mode. Yet while the band draws its influence on these long-ago sounds throughout their first mini-CD, The Funeral Sessions, they also update the sound with some modern attitude and toss in plenty of their own touches.

Vocalist Michael DiGreggario shows plenty of soul in his voice, showcasing the mix of romance, hurt, and even menace in Chris Hill’s lyrics. The balance of the band—Christopher Church, Brock Landers, and Butch McQueen—draft music that is familiar for longtime listeners of the genre, but also has a welcome freshness about it.

The band hits its stride on the driving “Simon” and especially on the moody “I Sold My Soul.” The band is still on its early footing here, but these six tracks show a group that doesn’t just want to turn back the clock, they want to bring back the past. In this case, it’s a welcome whiff of nostalgia.

Reaching for a Star Star

Have you watched the new Mercurial Rage video for their song "Star Star" off their CD The Funeral Sessions? Don't be shy, leave a comment!



Written & performed by Mercurial Rage / Album: The Funeral Sessions / Editor: Vince Caro / Cameras: Drew Hill, Andy Iwanin, Moon Wells, V. Caro