Music

See Boston garage rock heroes Muck and the Mires

The band producer Kim Fowley called "a mix of 1964 Beatles and The Ramones" plays in Medford Nov. 13.

Muck and the Mires. Courtesy Photo/muckandthemires.com

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Over the course of the past two decades, Muck and the Mires have established themselves as Boston’s ultimate purveyors of energetic garage rock ditties that rarely pass the three-minute mark. The legendary producer Kim Fowley described their sound as “a mix of 1964 Beatles and The Ramones.”

The quartet has also earned two unique honors via shows hosted by “Little Steven” Van Zandt: co-winners of his Underground Garage Battle of the Bands in 2004, and having their song “I’m Your Man” selected as the “Coolest Song in the World” for the week of January 25, 2021 on his Sirius XM radio show “Underground Garage.”

Evan Shore and his bandmates have recorded numerous albums, EPs, and singles in their career, thereby maintaining and increasing interest in the group. And while they may be local, Muck and the Mires has entertained live audiences around the world with its fathomless well of immeasurably catchy tunes. (According to the band’s website, a show in Liverpool “caught the attention of ex-Beatles manager Allan Williams.” This afforded them bragging rights to the unique claim that, “despite their offer to employ him, the man who gave away the Beatles also turned down Muck and the Mires.”)

The Dogmatics and Stop Calling Me Frank are musical kindred spirits and fellow locals who will join Muck and the Mires at The Porch on November 13.