Artist Of The Week - Friday: Summary

It’s been a fun week with Jack’s Mannequin. Make sure to check them out on their upcoming tour and to check back in in a few days for the next Artist Of The Week!

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Artist Of The Week: Monday

With Something Corporate on break, McMahon looked to bring the best of his songs together into a concept album exploring his alienating return to the hometown he left to pursue his music, and the dissolution of a long, meaningful relationship because of it. He brought his signature piano and distinctive tenor to the project, with vocals, bass, and guitar offered by friend, collaborator, and Something Corporate producer Jim Wirt. McMahon and Wirt produced the album, which also features Bobby (Raw) Anderson on guitar, and Patrick Warren (Fiona Apple, Macy Gray, Jon Brion) with organ, strings and arrangements. Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee supplied live drums to complement samples by C.J. Eiriksson, who also served as the album’s engineer.

Inspired by such theme albums as the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds, Everything In Transit weaves an autobiographical tale reflected in the storybook written into its liner notes. It begins with the laid-back, bohemian California mood of “Holiday From Real,” with McMahon coming home and feeling like a visitor in his own world.

Jack’s Mannequin Announces 2010 Winter Tour

Jack’s Mannequin have unveiled dates for an upcoming headlining tour. The tour, kicking off in February of 2010, will also feature opening acts fun. and Vedera. More dates will be announced soon, but until then, you can check out the confirmed dates below. 

Dates are as follows:

02/05 - The Showbox SODO - Seattle WA 
02/06 - Roseland - Portland OR 
02/07 - Knitting Factory - Spokane WA 
02/09 - In The Venue - Salt Lake City UT 
02/11 - Sacramento State Univ - Sacramento CA 
02/12- House of Blues - Las Vegas NV 
02/13 - Marquee Theater - Tempe, AZ (Support TBA) 
02/16 - The White Rabbit - San Antonio TX 
02/17 - House of Blues - Dallas TX 
02/19 - The Beaumont Club - Kansas City MO 
02/20 - First Avenue - Minneapolis MN 
02/24 - Egyptian Room - Indianapolis IN 
03/05 - The Norva - Norfolk VA

Educate Yourself On ‘Dear Jack’

What are the songs about on the Dear Jack EP?
There’s a song called “There, There, Katie,” which was half written during Transit, and the other half after I found out my sister would be my stem-cell donor. It’s a song about and for my sister. Diane from “Diane the Skyscraper,” was my nurse in the first week that I was in New York, getting diagnosed. It was really the only song that I wrote while I was in the hospital, probably on the second night that I was there, and did a demo of it a year or two later. I love the song.

With all of your experiences, what is your opinion on the healthcare debate?
I think it’s horrible. We’re sitting in a horrible place. I have health insurance and I went into the doctor’s office the other day and got sent a bill for $1100 after they went to my insurance company. I think there’s this crazy effort to stall, or accommodate the people who are robbing our entire society blind for the sake of profiting in the most grotesque way humanly possible over people’s diseases and illnesses. I was lucky. I had health insurance and a business manager. But it certainly was a topic of much conversation among myself, my friends and my family, that what if I had not been in such an advantageous place? I’m scared that they’re going to go “reform” the industry but make such a point to make concessions to these pigs who are robbing us blind that we might not actually get reform.

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Lyric Of The Week Has Been Updated

“Made For Eachother” // Jack’s Mannequin