MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE

"Industrial jungle pussy punk" is how Mindless Self Indulgence (MSI) describes their sound. Here's how I'd describe it: a hyper-cartoon version of an A.D.D.-suffering, over-caffeinated, video game-addicted ten-year-old, Mike Patton-channeling, Prince-singing over Atari Teenage Riot drums and industrial guitars. Okay. Maybe their description is better. Regardless of how you try to explain them, MSI is singer Little Jimmy Urine's attempt at keeping he and his bandmates, Steve Righ? (guitar), Lynz (bass) and Kitty's (drums), attention-deficit minds from becoming too bored. Their first release, Tight, was composed mostly on an ancient Atari PC. Their second disc, Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy, is an amazing frenzy of drum-and-bass married with Urine's filth-spewing falsetto. They are currently touring to support their most recent disc, a live album called Alienating Our Audience: Live, and a new side project called Left Rights. (You know-- for kids!)
If you've never seen MSI, their live shows are the stuff of legend. Multiple arrests, pee drinking, backflips, and crowds taunted into throwing everything that's not bolted down at the band members. This is the kind of show that ICP and Bloodhound Gang wish they could put on. Mindless Self Indulgence plays the Newport Music Hall on Monday, October 14th. Check out this band before they become so infamous that you have to lie about having seen this show!