Paint It Blue: Big Head Todd and The Monsters Address Current Events While Embracing Blues on New Black Beehive Record

Highly anticipated new record touches on death, revolution, and the current state of America

WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR BIG HEAD TODD AND THE MONSTERS’ “JOSEPHINA” HERE

“The tunes here easily rank alongside – or top – the veteran band’s best output over the years.”

(The Washington Post)

(New York, NY) – February 27, 2014

The MuseBox today announced that Big Head Todd and The Monsters have revealed a new video for “Josephina,” the first song off their latest record, Black Beehive. Recorded at Butcher Boy Studios in front-man Todd Park Mohr’s adopted hometown of Chicago, Black Beehive is the band’s first release on Shout! Factory. The album was produced by Grammy-winning Steve Jordan (John Mayer, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray) and has already been recognized by Relix as Big Head Todd and The Monsters’ “strongest affirmation of the band’s blues roots.” Black Beehive and the rest of Big Head Todd and The Monsters’ catalogue are available in the band’s online store.

According to Mediamikes.com, Black Beehive is “filled with classic blues-based instrumentation that blends several other genres, such as country, rock and folk music, and will appeal to a variety of listeners – young and old.” Black Beehive serves as a reaffirmation of the band’s blues roots and an indicator of the relevant rock n’ roll Big Head Todd and The Monsters plan on creating over the coming quarter century.

With Black Beehive, Big Head Todd and The Monsters have fully embraced the blues while revealing their most personal album to date. The collection of eleven new studio tracks, according to co-founder and figurehead Mohr, “allows us to truly reach our audience through the language of the blues.”

As he began writing material for the album, Mohr drew from both his own life experiences and relevant current events. Ranging from the untimely death of Amy Winehouse (“Black Beehive”) to the recent uprisings in the Middle East (“We Won’t Go Back”), Mohr wrote songs that are as much a snapshot of the here and now as they are a personal diary. Mohr also veered into social commentary, as evidenced by “Fear, Greed and Ignorance,” a song that somberly declares that it is those three dishonorable traits that are “driving America off the edge of the road.”

Founded as a trio in Boulder in 1986 (with Mohr on guitar and vocals, Brian Nevin on drums, and Rob Squires on bass), Big Head Todd and The Monsters quickly built a strong reputation as an engaging live band. Within a few years of their formation, the group moved beyond the Colorado club circuit to become one of the most adventurous, durable and respected bands in America. The trio added keyboardist/pedal steel guitarist Jeremy Lawton in 2004.