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Mono Men and Fireballs of Freedom

Three chords, will travel. That more or less sums up the Mono Men. No light shows. No fog machines. Just loud straight-forward guitar based all-American rawk. The Mono Men are from Bellingham, WA., a small town about 80 miles north of Seattle on the US/Canadian border, whose only claim to fame is being the one burg in the country to have a pulp processing plant located within city limits. The Mono Men have been featured on over 55 releases since forming n late 1989 as well as grinding out tours in Europe, Mexico, Japan, Spain and the U.S., as well as being featured in the NW Rock n' Roll documentary HYPE!. Each Mono Men release has generated positive reviews worldwide. The Mono Men are at their best sweating it out on stage with the amps wide open believe it!

Missoula's FIREBALLS OF FREEDOM are out to dispel the notion that Montana is populated solely by mountain men, militias and nature-loving movie stars. The Fireballs prove there's punk rock in them thar hills. Sure, they're isolated up there, but that only makes their sound more unique raw and powerful, with a ferocity that skips a couple of generations back to the Motor City and then leaps somewhere else entirely. You can hear some MC5, some AC/DC, maybe some Black Flag in the guitar freakouts, but it's hard to pin down exactly where that noise is coming from.