Welcome, ye olde Long Knives

Indie Rocker or Ultimate Fighting Champion?

We would like to extend a warm holiday welcome to Long Knives who have just  joined the matchlessmusic.net team.

Long Knives are Michael Kane and an ever revolving cast of super-awesome band members.  One of the great things about this band is you never know what you’re going to get.   From song to song, they can shift seamlessly from solo singer songwriter tearjerkers to a seven member noise juggernaut.  They give vocal and lyrical nods to singer songwriters like Townes Van Zandt, Elliot Smith, and Neil Young and to the late ’80s to mid ’90s era of shoegaze and lo-fi bands like My Bloody Valentine, and Pavement.

In the past year, Long Knives have been playing shows with some of the sexiest indie rock acts out there — Fleet Foxes, Jens Lekman, and Neil Halstead.  They’ve also been gathering steam inside the typewriter tv tubes (Internet).   Delusions of Adequacy, Confessions of a Music Addict, and Skyscraper Magazine have all tipped their hat to them.

What’s more, when not writing amazingly heartrending indie rock, Kane yearns to be an ultimate fighter.   Word on the street is that he’s even rocked some tough man contests.  Weird, huh?  Anyway, he’s obviously got a tender heart inside of that rough exterior because he writes some seriously pretty music that begs to be listened to.  NPR even featured them a while back. Check it: Long Knives on NPR Online.  You should give ‘em a listen, really.  You can almost feel the awesome.