Finally!

Banäna Deäthmüffins - the best death-pastry rock band in Hong Kong and the 23rd worst band on Facebook - have returned! And with music!

Two years and a month after our debut EP - and only one year later than originally planned - our first full-length LP is out now.

It’s called “Kawaii Five-0”, and it is available for streaming and download ( Read more... )

I found out yesterday that Mark E Smith passed away last week.

It probably says a lot that I somehow totally missed this on my various social media feeds - hardly anyone seemed to notice outside of the UK. Which I guess makes sense because The Fall were never more than a minor cult sensation in the US - you either heard them on college radio or you ( Read more... )

If there’s one thing that America learned in this election, it’s this: a lot of information on the internet isn’t that accurate.

Granted, for many people, “inaccurate” means “this doesn’t fit the narrow hyperpartisan narrative in my brain”. Even now, media companies are getting a lot of flak from some liberals over their inaccurate and dishonest ( Read more... )

After three or four years of releasing several albums’ worth of songs individually, Banäna Deäthmüffins is finally releasing our very first proper album, which is actually an EP or a mini-LP or whatever you call a record that only has seven songs on it.

Five songs are brand new. Two songs have been previously released, but since only about 25 ( Read more... )

Banäna Deäthmüffins isn’t on hiatus exactly - we actually have a number of tracks in the works and even a concept album, maybe. But our MIDI converter is acting up and we can’t get much else done until we get a new one.

However, we do have this to share with you: a cover of that classic song “Born Free”.

And we’d like to apologize in advance to ( Read more... )

In keeping with our general theme of optimism, we thought we’d kick off 2016 with this song intended to inspire positive thinking in the young people of today.

PRODUCTION TRIVIA: As it happens, most of the lyrics are 25 years old - I wrote a similar song for a music project called Buckwheat & Radishes back in the early 90s, inspired by a good ( Read more... )

We’re back, and by the wildest coincidence we have something kind of appropriate for the holiday season, what with everyone seemingly spending Christmas freaking out over the state of things, especially in the sociopolitical arena, and expressing it on Facebook in the form of fear and loathing and dithering in general.

This was written with a ( Read more... )

And we’re back.

Actually we never went away, but aside from our day jobs eating into our studio time, we also ended up with a new laptop, which means we went from GarageBand 6 to GarageBand 10. And it had evidently evolved to the point of being unrecognizable, so it took awhile to figure out how to use it properly.

I don’t know if we succeeded on ( Read more... )

As longtime fans know, we’ve been participating in a project where we use bootlegged isolated drum tracks from famous drummers and fool around with them.

Here’s the latest entry in that series, in which we finally give the world our interpretation of the Village People, who are awesome. We apologize for any inconvenience or excessive manliness all ( Read more... )

Someone on Twitter once remarked that the song “All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth” proves that there are no good songs about teeth.

There is now.

SONGFACTS: Based on a true story, although the cat in question was a cartoon cat in a print ad for a brand of cat treats. But it did have human teeth, is my point.



( Sing with me! )