After more than a year of sitting still and staying safe, MR8 is back in the studio finishing up tracking on the last two songs of their new record: the rollicking, delicious, and rowdy future pop hit, “Wishing You Well,” and the catchy as hell, “Hole in Your Heart.” Look for a very special surprise announcement about these and 18 other new MR8 songs that will be released before the year is out on Hot Tramp Records.  The band is also back to playing live shows, with a Saturday, May 29, 5 to 8 p.m. appearance at Last Name Brewing…

Here’s “Half,” off the upcoming Mick Rhodes and the Hard Eight full-length album.  This is the first of several videos that we will be dropping in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for “When a Man Turns to Whiskey,” “Wonderful/Terrible,” and “Talk a Good Game,” among others. “Half” was directed by Drew Campbell. The song, about splitting your life in two, was written by Mick Rhodes, Wyman Reese and John Sleeger, produced by Wyman Reese and engineered by Jon Crawford, and recorded by Jon Crawford at Village Tracks and Brian Wells at Brown Liquor Studios.