Mishka Shubaly's first songs were
written in a grim series of basement
apartments, beginning with an unfinished and unheated basement in his
mother's rented duplex in Lafayette, Colorado. Just seventeen, he was
working as the night manager of Sonic Burger and attending college full
time. "My dad had just left us, our house had gotten repossessed, and
my mom and I were totally broke. I didn't have a dresser to keep my
clothes in so I just brought a bunch of green pickle buckets home from
work and kept my clothes in them. It worked fine, but I always
smelled-- strongly --of pickles." The darkness, isolation and chill of
that basement in Colorado and the unflappable sense of humor it bred
has never left the music of Mishka
Shubaly.
In August of
2000, Mishka Shubaly
recorded Thanks For Letting Me
Crash on a four track in his bedroom and began performing
live. In
the years since, critics have compared him to virtually everyone in the
country or indie canons, most notably Johnny
Cash, Tom Waits and Nick
Cave. But it's still the fans that matter most to Mishka Shubaly. "Every time I play,
somebody comes up to me after the show really
wasted, looks deep into my eyes with just incredible sadness, then
mumbles something incomprehensible and staggers off. That means more
to me than I can say."
By May, 2003,
Mishka had his picture in
Fader magazine for being the talent buyer at one of the hottest clubs
in NYC where he had booked Liars,
Walkmen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The
Libertines, Secret Machines,
We Are Scientists
and virtually all the
stars of the rising Brooklyn scene. But that summer he traded NYC indie
hipster-dom for a Toyota mini-van, and toured almost without break for
a year.
Mishka with DSN Music's Scotty B in
San Francisco.
He has
shared the stage with Broken Social
Scene, The
Decemberists, Metric, Bob Log, Calexico, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, The Dirtbombs, The Bronx, Dan Melchior's Broke Revue, The High Strung
and Jason Bonham. He has appeared on radio stations across the
U.S. such as WBAI/New York and
WOUB/Columbus. His
latest
record, How to Make a Bad Situation
Worse, recorded with producer Jay
Braun (Jon Spencer Blues
Explosion, The
Stills, Fiery Furnaces)
released on Terra Soul Records
in
August, 2007 followed with a national tour, supported by publicity
from In Music We Trust PR.
Mishka's
fanbase has strongly increased since 2007, after staging his national
tour of the U.S. Album sales have also been on the rise since he joined
the Stumptown Records label family.
DSN Music is proud
to present your Alternative Country Rock innovator... Mishka
Shubaly!
.
"Took You In My
Arms" How To Make A Bad Situation Worse/Stumptown-Terra
Soul Records/2007
"Kansas City
Misery" How To Make A Bad Situation Worse/Stumptown-Terra
Soul Records/2007
"The Only One
Drinking Tonight" How To Make A Bad Situation Worse/Stumptown-Terra
Soul Records/2007
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