THE MARSHMALLOW OVERCOAT
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A special LIMITED EDITION of the band's NEW RELEASE
of new material is available ONLY here:

This numbered, limited & autographed edition features:

* 7 new audio tracks

* 3 new music videos as a CD-ROM bonus

* LIMITED EDITION ! ONLY A FEW COPIES LEFT !

SORRY - NOW SOLD OUT !

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HERE'S THE PRESS RELEASE FOR THE
2008 "Light Show" ALBUM:

Tucson, AZ – Few bands last long enough to make even a single record – so the 22-year journey of The Marshmallow Overcoat is amazing by any standards. The Tucson, Arizona band has survived and thrived since its 1986 birth – and the new “The Light Show” album marks the venerable garage-psych act’s 20th release. (The band also boasts more than 25 songs on various compilation albums.)

With the first new album from the band since the acclaimed 2005 “best of” CD & DVD set, “The Light Show” band lineup echoes back to the band’s origins – a 2008 band photo even replicates the same pose, taken at the same spot at the San Xavier mission, that was shot in 1989 for the cover of the seminal “Beverly Pepper” album.

Arizona’s longest-running garage band has toured the globe, broken into MTV and widespread radio airplay, and continues to collect a rabid and loyal global following. “When we started out in 1986, being tagged a ‘retro’ ‘60s band went completely against the grain of mainstream pop culture,” founding member Timothy Gassen says. “Now, of course, it’s hip to like our style of fuzz and jangle. But we’ve made this music for two decades for the right reason – because we love it, and so do our fans.”

Marshmallow Overcoat fans are rewarded on “The Light Show” album with 12 new songs, plus a 30-song bonus “live” album of MP3s, and a new music video clip. The band’s trademark fuzz guitar, rollicking vintage Vox keyboards, Rickenbacker jangle and moody vocals are all in place – with plenty of surprises to discover in the densely rich recordings.

The band is also exploring a new method to get their sounds to fans: for the first time, a special gatefold digipak LIMITED EDITION CD of the album is available initially only through the band’s MySpace page and the record label’s Web site. This exclusive Limited Edition includes a full-color 11”x17” poster featuring album covers from the band’s first 22 years, and this offer also includes a bonus CD.

Talk of a return tour of Europe is again bubbling, as well as a slate of U.S. shows in support of the album – but Gassen is tight-lipped about the plans (even as the band prepared for a private album release show somewhere on the West Coast). “I told the band that this was the last Marshmallow Overcoat record,” Gassen chuckles.“ But they’ve heard that from me 19 times before, so they just nodded and smiled. I guess you can’t stop the fuzz.” _______________________________________________________________________

The band's "best-of" CD & DVD set is available. Here's some info:

After years of waiting, THE MARSHMALLOW OVERCOAT "26 Ghosts: the best of 1986-2005" CD & DVD is now available on Dionysus Records in the USA! The enhanced audio CD features 26 songs plus a multi-media section with liner notes, hundreds of band photos and newspaper articles. (There's also a “ hidden” 27th song on the audio disc, too.) The second disc is an hour-long video DVD that includes all of the band's MTV videos, plus new and never before seen footage!

"26 Ghosts" (the title refers to the band's 1991 MTV hit "13 Ghosts") presents the band's favorite tracks from all their previous releases since 1986, and adds new tracks recorded in 2004 & 2005 especially for this "best of" release. Producer Timothy Gassen carefully re-mastered and restored all the songs and video from the original masters for the best quality ever released by the band.

Here's a short review from MAGNET MAGAZINE:

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A short selection from the “26 Ghosts” liner notes:

The infection blossomed in the spring of 1986, when Gassen pushed four other kindred cavemen into a Tucson, Arizona living room to cut their first demo. They didn't know it at the time, but they were triggering a chain reaction leading to international tours, MTV video airplay, college radio chart-toppers, and a tireless schedule of recording.

That lovably crude demo turned into their debut "Groovy Little Trip" 45 for Los Angeles' Dionysus Records, and suddenly there was no turning back. The records started pouring out, and by 2005 more than 35 CD, LP, 45 and compilation appearances had seen release.

Critics were confused, dumbfounded, or happily startled at the band's approach and delivery. "The best material here is capable of peeling the fluorescent paint off one's walls," wrote the Arizona Daily Star inresponse to their first LP, "The Inner Groove."

Recorded for $250 in a friend's living room studio, "The Inner Groove" featured fuzzed Rickenbacker 12-string guitars, a vintage Sears toy organ, and vocals suitably delivered from the bathroom via a long microphone cable. Like most of their later records, it was also drenched in tremolo, reverb, Vox, Farfisa, and the wheezings of a broken old "Kustom Kraft" guitar amplifier.

Bigger budgets and more elaborate studios ensued, with the resulting albums bringing more to cheer about. "The Overcoat has the roller coaster lilt of sheer pop and the feel of magic," exclaimed England's Unhinged Magazine, while back in the U.S., Buzz Magazine observed that The Marshmallow Overcoat "is the cerebral nugget that blows the lid off the underground!"

The UK psychedelic bible Freakbeat Magazine contended their second album "Try On The Marshmallow Overcoat should be listened to 1000 times. This LP holds its own with the most revered of classics."

And as the recording studio became a second home, so did the tour van. The Marshmallow Overcoat wore out countless tires on American and Canadian roads, blasting the fuzz and Farfisa throughout the hemisphere.

A two month 1992 European tour prompted wild shows from Holland all the way to Greece as the band's sweaty stage show scorched the Continent. France's Kinetic Vibes Magazine wrote that the band "creates an apocalyptic universe of shapes and colours ... an alchemy of sounds that subliminally invade the depths of our minds and spin in the unexplored zones of our psyche."

Italy's Davy Magazine also reacted strongly to the European invasion. "Like a piece of wood left too long in the rain, The Overcoat has assumed weird and twisted forms. Music from the last outpost of the world could hardly be more mysterious."

The band wore their influences on their sleeves — literally. Paisley shirts (long sleeve and buttoned at the top, of course), shaggy hair, Beatle boots and pegged-leg pants were the normal attire, on stage or off.

Musically, they gladly credited the cream of the original 1960s garage/psych crop as their fathers. The Marshmallow Overcoat's records are jammed with loving nods to The Electric Prunes, Chocolate Watch Band, Blues Magoos, Strawberry Alarm Clock and Music Machine, among countless others.

The 26 lava-lamp anthems in this "best-of" might be heard as only musical graffiti to the uninformed. Perhaps only true believers can understand these sounds as the indelible benchmarks of a paisley-punk mission.

But The Marshmallow Overcoat won't be forgotten — there's a band in a garage down the street right now trying hard to learn their songs.

— MARCUS TYBALT, Jr. from the "best of 1986-2005" CD