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Being the opening band at an arena concert can seem a little daunting, especially when the acts following are as well known as Matchbox Twenty and Alanis Morissette. When you are playing, the crowd is ...

During New Orleans-based alt-rock band Mute Math’s earliest days, founding members Paul Meany and Darren King didn’t put limits on the kind of music they might create. This approach yielded a sound ...

There comes a day when shitty little clubs and small acoustic shows get a little redundant for music fans — no matter how great the bands are. Sure, there’s great intensity in a good local rock show, ...

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When the rock band Mutemath got to work on its fifth and most recent album, Play Dead, singer and keyboardist Paul Meany found inspiration in some heavy places. “It’s about life after death, what that ...

NEW ORLEANS — On Sept. 18, Jimmy Kimmel introduced New Orleans electro-rock quartet Mute Math by telling his late-night TV talk show audience, "This is gonna be weird, I can almost guarantee it." He ...

DJ Shadow was like the Mozart of sampling,” Mute Math’s keyboardist/singer Paul Meany says earnestly. The New Orleans musician says Shadow sparked his musical interest as a teen and continues to ...

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Here’s an eye-opener from Mute Math, who learned the lyrics to “Typical” backwards, shot the whole thing in one take, and then when it was edited, reversed the whole thing and came up with this ...

"Armistice," New Orleans alt-rock quartet Mutemath's second album for Teleprompt/Warner Bros. Records, entered Billboard's Top 200 album chart at No. 18. "Armistice," recorded in part in a house on ...

Mute Math can seem hopelessly dorky — they wear skinny ties, singer Paul Meany sounds like Sting, and they sued Warner Bros., charging that the label tried to market them as a Christian band and dump ...