Mike & the Moonpies rebrands and reloads
It’s the Friday before SXSW, and Silverada are playing their first show in Austin. The atmosphere at the Sagebrush is more reunion than debut, though, as the packed local crowd waits to see exactly what this new manifestation of Mike & the Moonpies will bring to the stage.
If any fans were anxious that the new name signaled a dramatic change in sound, they’re quickly reassured by the burning Southern rock swagger of “Danger” and the natural sing-along spirit of “Beaches of Biloxi.” Harmeier pulls a sentimental nostalgia from “Steak Night at the Prairie Rose” and lets his Texas drawl drop on “Rainy Day.
“The only thing we can control is how creative we can be with it,” says Harmeier. “It’s throwing out rulebooks about whatever we thought it was before, and anything artistically that we want to do, we’ll chase it down. Hopefully we can maintain the status we have, if not grow it into higher-profile things. I think we’re all just at a period in our lives where we just want to create and not have any restrictions on that.
That challenge is familiar to any successful band as they evolve. Mike & the Moonpies was a band built for and bred on the road, playing more than 200 dates a year. The high-octane sets and hard-drinking club crowds are part of their DNA, an appeal that extended to their somewhat tongue-in-cheek name. Silverada at least signals something more professional, a name that would sound good on the radio or atop a festival bill.
Mike & the Moonpies has always felt like a band just on the cusp of a breakout, but their popularity was a slowly building boil heated by grinding the road and winning new fans in small clubs. 2016’scaptured the live adrenaline of their shows and foreshadowed the raw boogie of 2018’sThe band remained fiercely independent, with Harmeier founding Prairie Rose Records with longtime producer Adam Odor to release their music.
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