US Haru Tour 2025
Mar 13 - The Sardine - San Pedro, CA
Mar 14 - The Wayfarer - Costa Mesa, CA
Mar 15 - Giant Rock Meeting Room - Yucca Valley, CA
Mar 16 - Cibo - Phoenix, AZ
Mar 17 - Whiskey Creek Zócalo - Silver City, NM
Mar 18 - Guild Cinema - Albuquerque, NM
Mar 19 - Guild Cinema - Albuquerque, NM
Mar 20 - CO-OPt - Lubbock, TX
Mar 21 - Resonant Head - Oklahoma City, OK
Mar 22 - The Wild Detectives - Dallas, TX
Mar 23 - The Corn Pound - San Antonio, TX
Mar 24 - The Continental Club - Houston, TX
Mar 25 - Mid City Ballroom - Baton Rouge, LA
Mar 26 - The End Of All Music - Jackson, MS
Mar 27 - Saturn - Birmingham, AL
Mar 28 - The Bark - Tallahassee, FL
Mar 29 - Will’s Pub - Orlando, FL
Mar 30 - Loosey’s - Gainesville, FL
Mar 31 - El Rocko Lounge - Savannah, GA
Apr 1 - Snug Harbor - Charlotte, NC
Apr 2 - Flat Iron - Greensboro, NC
Apr 3 - Pearl Street Warehouse - Washington, D.C.
Apr 4 - Solar Myth - Philadelphia, PA
Apr 5 - Tubby’s - Kingston, NY
Apr 6 - Mercury Lounge - New York, NY
Apr 7 - Myrtle - East Providence, RI
Apr 8 - Nova Arts - Keene, NH
Apr 9 - The Monkey House - Winooski, VT
Apr 10 - Angry Mom Records - Ithaca, NY
Apr 11 - The Lounge at Revolution Gallery - Buffalo, NY
Apr 12 - The Funhouse At Mr. Smalls - Millvale, PA
Apr 13 - Beachland Tavern - Cleveland, OH
Apr 14 - Ace Of Cups - Columbus, OH
Apr 15 - State Street Pub - Indianapolis, IN
Apr 16 - The Hideout - Chicago, IL
Apr 17 - Gamma Ray Bar - Madison, WI
Apr 18 - Turf Club - St. Paul, MN
Apr 19 - Gabe’s - Iowa City, IA
Apr 20 - recordBar - Kansas City, MO
Apr 21 - Reverb Lounge - Omaha, NE
Apr 22 - Fisch Haus - Wichita, KS
Apr 23 - Chelsea’s - Eureka Springs, AR
Apr 24 - The Venue Shrine - Tulsa, OK
Apr 25 - Golden Light Cantina - Amarillo, TX
Apr 26 - Cocoon - Santa Fe, NM
Apr 27 - The Orpheum Theater - Flagstaff, AZ
Apr 28 - The Griffin - Las Vegas, NV
Apr 29 - Bakersfield Sound Co. - Bakersfield, CA
Apr 30 - Torch Club - Sacramento, CA
May 1 - The Miniplex - Arcata, CA
May 2 - Bottom Of The Hill - San Francisco, CA
May 3 - Zebulon - Los Angeles, CA
UK & Ireland Haru Tour 2025
May 29 - The Prince Albert - Brighton, UK
May 30 - Ramsgate Music Hall - Ramsgate, UK
May 31 - Suburbia - Southampton, UK
Jun 1 - Fuel - Cardiff, UK
Jun 2 - A.R.C. - Liverpool, UK
Jun 3 - Gullivers - Manchester, UK
Jun 4 - Òran Mór - Glasgow, UK
Jun 5 - Voodoo - Belfast, UK
Jun 6 - Bank Lane - Waterford, IE
Jun 7 - Cleere's - Kilkenny, IE
Jun 8 - The Grand Social - Dublin, IE
Jun 9 - The Blue Lamp - Aberdeen, UK
Jun 10 - Cluny 2 - Newcastle, UK
Jun 11 - The Trades Club - Hebden Bridge, UK
Jun 12 - Exchange - Bristol, UK
Jun 13 - Face Bar - Reading, UK
Jun 14 - The Lexington - London, UK
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Thank you all for coming to our Aki Tour 2023!
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Thank you all for coming to our Haru Tour 2022!
mssv is back on the road this spring 2025! We have our US Haru Tour from March 13 > May 3, and then we go overseas for our UK & Ireland Haru Tour from May 29 > June 14. We'll be playing music from our 3rd full-length studio album, On And On, coming out in March on BIG EGO Records, as well as a bunch of new songs for you all too. See y'all out there real soon!
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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
JazzTimes Magazine premieres "The Pink Room" from mssv's Live Flowers album out Dec. 1
Our 3rd full length studio album On And On, releases March 7, 2025 on BIG EGO Records, features 8 brand new mssv songs!
Our 1st split 7" release with the Charlotte band Thousand Dollar Movie features the new mssv song Even So and is out now on Four Finger Records, available through their Bandcamp page directly!
Our 2nd full length studio album Human Reaction, released September, 2023 on BIG EGO Records, features 8 brand new mssv songs!
Our 1st full length studio album Main Steam Stop Valve, released in October, 2020 on BIG EGO Records, features 7 brand new mssv songs alongside our reimagining of Mike Watt's instrumental song June 16th.
Check out the 3 videos from this album made for us by Allen D. Glass II
Our 3rd 7" vinyl release, recorded completely in lockdown isolation, mssv Meets Nels Cline from Striped Light Records is out now and available through our Bandcamp page directly.
Our 2nd 7" vinyl release, recorded completely in lockdown isolation, The Scott Aicher EP from Nomad Eel Records is out now and available through our Bandcamp page directly.
Our 1st 7" vinyl release, recorded completely in lockdown isolation, from Improved Sequence is out now and available only through their Bandcamp page directly.
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 (Dark Inside The Sun, 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.
Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital
Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital
Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital
Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital
Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital
Limited Edition Vinyl / Digital
Hand-Made & Pressed CD Package / Digital
It's a Sticker!
Signed by baggetta + hodges + watt
T-shirt from our Aki Tour 2023
Aki Tour show : Atlanta, GA : Stukenborg Press