"With indie rock precision, MANM are an amazing bar band. If there's an afterlife, they'd perform in the waiting room."
- SFGate (SF Chronicle)
"MANM grabs inspiration from everything around them to create a fresh and innovative sound that’s all their own."
- Monterey County Weekly
"Monsters Are Not Myths are a quirky, American hard-pop band, able to absorb a diversity of influences and craft them into a sound of their own…a good sound. This is the kind of music I wanted to create when I was a kid, alas. I have no musical talent, but these “kids” are brimming with it. I’ll have a great time playing this for my friends."
- KVMR Listener's Guide
"These Monsters are hell-bent on eating your eardrums, one waxy bite at a time. Somewhere between Modest Mouse, Queens of the Stone Age and Barenaked Ladies, the band's tunes are as headbangingly satisfying as the loudest rock jams and as headscratchingly weird as the oddest indie dirges."
- Santa Cruz Weekly
"'Corporate Grown' takes you through one hell of a roller coaster ride of rawness and fun. The melodic opening track "Bits of Sins" prepares and sets the tone while "Old Soul" dishes out a gritty 70's rock influence dose. Blended with some fresh songwriting and lyrics, the numerous combination of instruments will leave a delighted earful."
- Frozen Aisle Magazine
American Songwriter with Monsters Are Not Myths
Monsters are not Myths wants you to play cowbell with them.
The California indie band combines rock, folk, and an insatiable appetite for the ridiculous. Featuring dancing bears, inflatable guitar solos, and audience cowbell competitions, a Monsters are not Myths show is more than great music.it's an experience that is never quite the same.
The band formed in 2005 in Santa Cruz, California, after finding each other on Craigslist. After several drummers and some questionable hairstyles, the band now resides in the Bay Area, combining acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica, keyboards, organs, bass, guitar and glockenspiel.
While aurally similar to Wilco, Spoon and the Old 97's, the band is just as quick to cite comedic influences like Andy Kaufman, The Dana Carvey Show, and the legendary live shows of the Barenaked Ladies. Monsters are not Myths shows feel “more like they're in your living room than they are on the stage looking down on you”, said a review from the American Songwriter Show.
With their new album, Corporate Grown, the band captures the humor, fun, and raw emotion of their live show on disc. From the sometimes comic travails of a desk job in Silicon Valley (LED, IV) to the seething plea for nostalgia in OldSoul, the band keeps you on your toes. "Republican Girls" recounts the tragic story liberal boy meets conservative girl, while "Burrito in my Heart", the final song on the album, is a drinking song for the ages.
Corporate Grown was released in October of 2009 and is available to buy on iTunes and CD Baby as well as independent retailers throughout California.
