Mike Dillon

A Texas local, vibraphonist Mike Dillon can be an eclectic musician using a bent toward jazz, funk, and avant-garde rock and roll. Having performed because the past due ’80s, Dillon spent some time working with a differing cadre of likewise minded performers including Les Claypool, Garage area a Trois, Karl Denson, yet others. By himself, he provides led several groupings including Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle, which released its debut record, Battery Dairy, in 2007. Between that discharge and 2009’s Rock and roll Superstar Bench Press on Hyena, he guested on recordings by Ani DiFranco and David Egan. Between 2010 and 2011, he led a collective known as the the Useless Kenny GS with Skerik and Brad Houser, who released Procedure Lengthy Leash on Royal Potato Family members. Also in 2011, he was section of Marco Benevento’s Garage area a Trois for CONTINUALLY BE Content, But Stay Bad. In 2012, Dillon released Urn on Royal Potato Family members, and performed on Doug Belote’s Publication St. In 2013, he was a part of Ruby Crimson for The Like Vocabulary on Merge. Later on in the entire year he participated as an associate of Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, who released New Ammo in early 2014. Dillon also began his own fresh music group with three more youthful musicians he fulfilled in New Orleans: trombonist Carly Meyers, bassist Patrick McDevitt, and drummer Adam Gertner. The quartet documented Music group of Outsiders in Miami with co-producers Gary Vandy and Richard Maloney, Jr. The recording premiered by Royal Potato Family members in Apr of 2014. Dillon was a near continuous performer, which designed the music group experienced its talk about of turnover. A fresh incarnation from the Mike Dillon Music group, offering guitarist Cliff Hines, bassist Nathan Lambertson and an alternating solid of drummers including Claude Coleman Jr. (Ween), Simon Lott, G. Maxwell, Doug Belote, and Paul Thibodeaux, joined a Crescent Town recording studio room and continuing to explore the sketchy contacts between NOLA road beats, ska, funk, punk, and jazz. With co-production by Richard Maloney and executive from Rick Nelson and Robert Mercurio, the group surfaced with Life ISN’T a Soccer in Apr of 2017.