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mssv has a new album out called "On And On" on the BIG EGO Records label you can order at the link below... Our 3rd studio album features all new songs that we played throughout our Aki Tour 2023, plus new secret music on the vinyl edition only, and we'll be hitting the road again to celebrate. The mssv Haru Tour 2025 kicks off March 13 in the US, and May 29 in the UK & IE

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We have a brand new song out called “Even So” and it’s half (1/2!) of a brand new 7” vinyl release, split with our friends Thousand Dollar Movie, out now on Four Finger Records! Very Limited edition pressing available from their Bandcamp page, and digital available on all your streamers everywhere. "Block Out The Sun" by Thousand Dollar Movie is the song on the other side of this release!

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mssv has a new album out called "Human Reaction" on the BIG EGO Records label you can order at the link below... Our 2nd studio album features all new songs that we played throughout our Haru Tour 2022 and we'll be hitting the road again to celebrate. The mssv Aki Tour 2023 kicks off Sept. 5...

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Our 1st special edition 7" release, recorded completely in lockdown isolation, on the Italian Improved Sequence label came out in September 2020 and is available now from the label directly.

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Our 2nd special edition 7" release, recorded completely in lockdown isolation, is The Scott Aicher EP - a very special 4 song micro-opera based on new original artwork by Scott Aicher, included in the packaging, and features Petra Haden joining us on violin and voice. This is out now on Nomad Eel Records, available at our new Bandcamp page, or by scrolling down to the bottom of this site.

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Our 3rd special edition 7" release, also recorded in lockdown, is out now on Striped Light Records. mssv Meets Nels Cline is a collaboration between mssv and guitarist Nels Cline featuring one song by Nels and one song by mssv guitarist Mike Baggetta. Comes with handmade packaging and handset letterpress design by Bryan Baker of Stukenborg Press, as well as an assortment of special prints with text (poems?) from one of the members of the band. Which print will you get? No one knows!

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You can check out all of our upcoming releases on our new Bandcamp page, or by scrolling down to the bottom of this site.

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Premier Guitar writes about mssv and their guitarist Mike Baggetta

Brooklyn Vegan writes about mssv's POSTPONED Haru Tour 2020 around Big Ears Festival

Rock and Roll Globe premieres videos of Mike Watt's Liberty Calls! & No One Says Old Man (To The Old Man) from mssv's Live Flowers album out Dec. 1

JazzTimes Magazine premieres "The Pink Room" from mssv's Live Flowers album out Dec. 1

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mssv, composed of guitarist Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges on drums and mike watt on bass, creates music that is a heretofore unimagined hybrid of a punk power-trio, noir-tinged adventure music and a dreamy experimental rock band, though they prefer the term “post-genre.”

Their latest full-length album On And On is the 3rd studio album featuring brand new songs that were written by Baggetta before their 58-show 2023 US tour and performed every night, then recorded and produced by Chris Schlarb at BIG EGO Studio in Long Beach, CA immediately after, and features artwork by the great John Herndon (Tortoise, A Grape Dope, Isotope 217).

The digital version of the album features these 8 separate, boundary-pushing tracks, while the limited edition vinyl features these pieces joined into two continuous side-long movements by 6 additional band-improvised interludes. These improvised instrumentals had their parts recorded separately by each member, then edited down, recombined and arranged by Baggetta. They serve as an important connective tissue between the songs on each side, turning On And On into an exciting and trippy psychedelic fever dream of a concept album that really brings out the core of its story: at its heart it is an album where all the works combine to create an endless episodic journey through the temporal and seemingly fleeting nature of society, personality, music, and life and death on Earth, only to realize that all of these are also endlessly repeating. The subject matter here, while being universally relatable, is rife with personal references, stories of his and the band’s friends and relationships, and one song Despair & Hilarity includes lyrics written by one of Baggetta’s most important musical collaborators, Steve Gigante (currently of OMFU + The Scrapers, (VIP) Ditchfork, formerly of W-S Burn, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle).

Continuing to explore the seemingly endless depths of Hodges’ and watt’s musicianship and skill over the many tours and albums in mssv has grown an instantly identifiable sound from Baggetta’s songwriting for this band. But the trust that has formed between them, that comes from long-running musical partnerships, has also made it possible for mssv to explore more interesting ways to incorporate improvised music into the lives of their songs, innovating their music in new ways while still keeping the fearless nature of each musician and this band fully intact. On And On skillfully combines all of these elements into a newly evolved lens for the music of mssv, deftly displayed in this album as a high concept love letter to everyday life.

There is still the impression of “pressure, combustion, power, and hissing clouds of sonic poetry,” as Premier Guitar said, alongside the sonic exploring that comes from a band that has spent a lot of time together crafting their vision, as well as making room for guests like J Mascis, Petra Haden and Nels Cline on some of their previous releases. There’s no telling which way the band will turn at any given moment, a proposition that becomes a promise when they break down and reassemble these songs live, with an instinct for restraint and an openness to anarchy.

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On And On

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

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Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital

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Limited Edition T-Shirt

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

Limited Edition T-Shirt

from Bifocal Media with Art by Evil Jay!

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Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

11.75" x 16.5" on glossy paper

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Pin-On Button

Even So (split 7")

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

1" round button with pin-on backing

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Even So (split 7")

Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital

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Human Reaction

Even So (split 7")

Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital

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Main Steam Stop Valve

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital

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mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital

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The Scott Aicher EP 7"

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital

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Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital

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Live Flowers

Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Live Flowers

Hand-Made & Pressed CD Package / Digital

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Mike Baggetta - Stephen Hodges - Mike Watt

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On And On

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

Limited Edition T-Shirt

Limited Edition T-Shirt

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

Limited Edition T-Shirt

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

Pin-On Button

Even So (split 7")

Autographed IE/UK Tour 2025 Poster

Even So (split 7")

Even So (split 7")

Even So (split 7")

Human Reaction

Even So (split 7")

Even So (split 7")

Main Steam Stop Valve

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

The Scott Aicher EP 7"

mssv Meets Nels Cline 7"

Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Live Flowers

Media Kittens / When The Hoarding Has Ended 7"

Live Flowers

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