mssv (mike baggetta + stephen hodges + mike watt), cottage vipers

mssv is guitarist Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges on drums, mike watt on bass, creating music that is a hybrid of a punk power-trio and dreamy experimental rock band, though they prefer "post-genre".

With inventively churning drum textures from Hodges (an instantly identifiable sound honed in his days with Tom Waits & David Lynch) and the full-steam-ahead attitude from watt, (as displayed throughout his career with MINUTEMEN, fIREHOSE and The Stooges), there is still the impression of “pressure, combustion, power, and hissing clouds of sonic poetry".

Baggetta has had the pleasure to work with David Torn, Jim Keltner, Nels Cline, Psychic Temple, Jeff Coffin, Henry Kaiser, Petra Haden, Rev. Fred Lane, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Joseph C. Philips’ Numinous with Imani Uzuri, Viktor Krauss, Jerome Harris, David Wax Museum, Jon Irabagon, Eivind Opsvik & Ruth Brown. Even though Baggetta wrote all the songs specifically for these bandmates to play, there’s no telling which way the band will turn at any given moment, a proposition that becomes a promise when they break down and reassemble these songs live, with an instinct for restraint and an openness to anarchy.

"vintage twang in service of Americana-meets exploratory Jazz-psych" Rolling Stone

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COTTAGE VIPERS Semi Improv CAN / NEU type stuff with a bit of Emeralds, White Noise, Throbbing Gristle and Ruth White thrown in -- lots of strange samples, frippertronic guitars, and proto-electronic vibes

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