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MAN
Inc.
Matt McGuire
When Matt McGuire left his hometown of Detroit for what he
hoped would be an idyllic life of snowboarding on the snow-covered
slopes of the Colorado Rockies, it did not take long for the
city-boy to become very annoyed with the phoniness and lack
of deodorant of the local puppy-dragging population. Upon
his less than triumphant return to the Motor City, he decided
to go it alone and put his growing ire into song. A transformation
took place and the boy became the one-man punk machine known
as MAN Inc.
Like a drunk, Irish Lenny Bruce armed with a bass, a large
amplifier, and an even larger kick drum, MAN
Inc’s “songs of protest” have enthralled
audiences all over the West and Mid-West, as a MAN
Inc performance is a sight to behold indeed. Matt plays
his strange form of anger-and-beer-fueled-one-man-punk-rock
with an intensity and self-effacing humor not seen since Dez-era
Black Flag. Although brutal and in-your-face, MAN
Inc’s songs and shows are brimming with self-effacing
humor. “You’ve got to have that, otherwise you’re
just an asshole,” he explains.
MAN
Inc’s debut album on Times Beach Records, MACHINE,
will drop with the force of a Butterbean right hook. Recorded
upon his inevitable return home (“you try living in
Hippie-land after growing up in Detroit,” he says) over
the course of three days in front of a live audience, MACHINE
is about as close to the MAN Inc
live experience short of being at the show. “We recorded
the album live with a studio audience because it best represents
the whole of MAN Inc,”
says producer Al Sutton (Kid Rock, Detroit Cobras, Big Chief).
“Witty, raw, angry, and involving a lot of booze on
the part of both artist and public.”
Indeed, like all good ripple, MAN
Inc is best consumed in copious amounts. Songs like
the anthemic “Beer for MAN
Inc,” or “Fuck the Team!” have become
crowd favorites over the course of many performances both
in the Western States and in Detroit, as well as to other
flavors like “Hippie Down!,” “Blue Law Sunday,”
or the trés populaire “Fired!”
MAN Inc is for real; his words and music will convince any
non-believers of this. “Don’t call it a novelty,
I’ve been this for years,” he paraphrases L.L.
Cool J, “put that in your pipe and smoke it!”
Don’t forget to pass it on the left.
“... an in your face punk minimalist… A MAN
Inc show is meant to spur laughs (understanding) that nothing
is worse than misplaced anger for the sake of antagonism
in the guise of testosterone-fueled punk rock.”
Metro Times, Detroit, MI
“... DIY Punk Rock stripped down to its filthy undies…”
Motorbooty, Detroit, MI |
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