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Little Rock AR - Husband and wife multi-instrumental duo who charm audiences one stage at a time. Their music fills the space between indie pop and alternative blues rock, combining old instrumentation with new production elements. Their show embraces the energy of Sonny and Cher, with light-hearted banter and energy that can only come from still being love-sick fools after 17 years of marriage. The pair have graced the stages of Nashville to Austin, from 40-person SoFar Sounds shows to events with over 10,000 attendants.
Chris Long was raised on the blues of the Delta South, picking up every instrument in those garage rock jam sessions. Veronica Wirges is a classically trained saxophonist and pianist, with a love for world music percussion. It is as odd of a match, musically, as you could marry. So that is what they did, quite literally. They met, fell in love, and said I do.
Veronica feels a kinship with the quirkiness and sonic complexity of antique instruments, such as a 100-year-old 5-ft-tall bass saxophone and a 1930s Silvertone Accordion. While Chris harnesses the warmth of vintage keys and guitars from the 1960s-1990s. By integrating these iconic sounds with the modern-day intermingling of genres, world percussion, and found sound samples for beat making, they create their signature vibe.
As straight-passing members of the LGBT+ community, they find themselves with a foot in two worlds. Their work is centered around the journey of finding happiness and truth in a world clinging to labels. Their music speaks to hopeless romantics, band nerds, and creative spirits.
In Central Arkansas, the couple has hosted events highlighting queer creatives at venues such as The Rev Room and Stickyz Fingers. Providing a safe space for not just artists like themselves, but also for vulnerable gay and ally teens in the South. Inspired by the deficit of support they had as young artists, they seek to support and educate fellow creatives. They present workshops through the Arkansas Arts Council, the only state-funded arts agency, and Mid-America Arts Alliance, a regional, arts nonprofit organization.
Monsterboy LIVES started releasing singles in 2018. During the pandemic, like most musicians who relied heavily on performance income, they found themselves looking to connect and create in different spaces. They entertained up to 7,000 viewers a night via livestreaming from their living room for 60 days during the shutdown. In 2020, the duo wrote a collection of horror songs for the NPR affiliate podcast: Arts and Letters.
In 2022, they signed a selection of songs for licensing representation with various agents. In December, a collection of four songs was released by the music licensing house APM (part of Universal Music Group) under the label Kinetik Musik. The couple has been featured in an MTV.com article. They performed as semifinalists in the premier statewide competition, The Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. They are Sally A. Williams Grant recipients, Artist INC Fellows, and members of the Arts on Tour program.
*** Booking note - Monsterboy LIVES offers both full productions of electric and lower key acoustic sets. This flexibility opens them up to entertaining at festivals, venues, events, and breweries. The eclectic selection of covers is reimagined in their signature style. While the duo's originals are represented in music libraries and are currently being pitched to tv and film placements, it's a great time to hear a song before it becomes famous. MBL's music is for Beck, The Black Keys, and Morphine fans.
Chris Long was raised on the blues of the Delta South, picking up every instrument in those garage rock jam sessions. Veronica Wirges is a classically trained saxophonist and pianist, with a love for world music percussion. It is as odd of a match, musically, as you could marry. So that is what they did, quite literally. They met, fell in love, and said I do.
Veronica feels a kinship with the quirkiness and sonic complexity of antique instruments, such as a 100-year-old 5-ft-tall bass saxophone and a 1930s Silvertone Accordion. While Chris harnesses the warmth of vintage keys and guitars from the 1960s-1990s. By integrating these iconic sounds with the modern-day intermingling of genres, world percussion, and found sound samples for beat making, they create their signature vibe.
As straight-passing members of the LGBT+ community, they find themselves with a foot in two worlds. Their work is centered around the journey of finding happiness and truth in a world clinging to labels. Their music speaks to hopeless romantics, band nerds, and creative spirits.
In Central Arkansas, the couple has hosted events highlighting queer creatives at venues such as The Rev Room and Stickyz Fingers. Providing a safe space for not just artists like themselves, but also for vulnerable gay and ally teens in the South. Inspired by the deficit of support they had as young artists, they seek to support and educate fellow creatives. They present workshops through the Arkansas Arts Council, the only state-funded arts agency, and Mid-America Arts Alliance, a regional, arts nonprofit organization.
Monsterboy LIVES started releasing singles in 2018. During the pandemic, like most musicians who relied heavily on performance income, they found themselves looking to connect and create in different spaces. They entertained up to 7,000 viewers a night via livestreaming from their living room for 60 days during the shutdown. In 2020, the duo wrote a collection of horror songs for the NPR affiliate podcast: Arts and Letters.
In 2022, they signed a selection of songs for licensing representation with various agents. In December, a collection of four songs was released by the music licensing house APM (part of Universal Music Group) under the label Kinetik Musik. The couple has been featured in an MTV.com article. They performed as semifinalists in the premier statewide competition, The Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase. They are Sally A. Williams Grant recipients, Artist INC Fellows, and members of the Arts on Tour program.
*** Booking note - Monsterboy LIVES offers both full productions of electric and lower key acoustic sets. This flexibility opens them up to entertaining at festivals, venues, events, and breweries. The eclectic selection of covers is reimagined in their signature style. While the duo's originals are represented in music libraries and are currently being pitched to tv and film placements, it's a great time to hear a song before it becomes famous. MBL's music is for Beck, The Black Keys, and Morphine fans.
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Our music comes from our life experiences, and at the beginning we had a lot bottled up. When we would find ourselves immersed in a different city or at a festival, often a collection of songs would come to us that reflected the adventures and culture we experienced there. At that time we felt releasing the songs individually and naming the collections after the event was the most authentic way for our audience to experience our music. This was the before times.
Around the time of the pandemic, we incidentally both faced an issue with our adrenal glands, each having a different rare condition. As a result we had to take a break from performing and recording, however we never stopped writing. What has resulted is several collections that seem somewhat unconnected. All snapshots of how our ship went through the rough waters of the last few years, almost losing each other in addition to the experience of living through a pandemic. What we will be sharing in our next releases will be our most honest and raw work to date. The next round of work will reflect the struggle, hope, sadness of different parts of the journey and how in the end we leaned on each other and found a community that helped hold us up.
Thank you to everyone who has reach out, your messages and well wishes have meant the world to us.
Around the time of the pandemic, we incidentally both faced an issue with our adrenal glands, each having a different rare condition. As a result we had to take a break from performing and recording, however we never stopped writing. What has resulted is several collections that seem somewhat unconnected. All snapshots of how our ship went through the rough waters of the last few years, almost losing each other in addition to the experience of living through a pandemic. What we will be sharing in our next releases will be our most honest and raw work to date. The next round of work will reflect the struggle, hope, sadness of different parts of the journey and how in the end we leaned on each other and found a community that helped hold us up.
Thank you to everyone who has reach out, your messages and well wishes have meant the world to us.
