Monsterboy Lives
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Little Rock AR - Husband and wife multi-instrumental duo who charm audiences one stage at a time. Their music fills the space between indie pop and alternative blues rock, combining old instrumentation with new production elements. Their show embraces the energy of a Douglas Adams novel, with light-hearted banter and energy that can only come from still being love-sick fools after 17 years of marriage. The pair have graced the stages along the east coast and southern states, from 40-person SoFar Sounds shows to events with over 10,000 attendants.
As straight-passing members of the LGBT+ community, they find themselves with a foot in two worlds. Their work is centered around the journey of finding happiness and connection in a world still clinging to the binary. Their music speaks to hopeless romantics, band nerds, and creative spirits.
Chris Long was raised on the blues of the Delta South, picking up every instrument in those garage rock jam sessions. Veronica Wirges is a classically trained saxophonist and pianist, with a love for world music percussion. It is as odd of a match, musically, as you could marry. So that is what they did, quite literally. They met, fell in love, and said I do.
Veronica feels a kinship with the quirkiness and sonic complexity of antique instruments, such as a 100-year-old 5-ft-tall bass saxophone and a 1930s Silvertone Accordion. While Chris harnesses the warmth of vintage keys and guitars from the 1960s-1990s. By integrating these iconic sounds with the modern-day intermingling of genres, world percussion, and found sound samples for beat making, they create their signature vibe.
In Central Arkansas, the couple has hosted events highlighting queer creatives at venues such as The Rev Room and Stickyz Fingers. Providing a safe space for not just artists like themselves, but also for vulnerable ally teens in the South. Inspired by the deficit of support they had as young artists, they seek to support and educate fellow creatives. They present workshops through the Arkansas Arts Council, the only state-funded arts agency, and Mid-America Arts Alliance, a regional, arts nonprofit organization.
Monsterboy LIVES started releasing singles in 2018. During the pandemic, entertained 7,000 viewers a night via livestreaming from their living room for 60 days during the shutdown. In 2021, the duo wrote a collection of horror songs for the NPR affiliate podcast: Arts and Letters.
In 2022, they signed a selection of songs for licensing representation with various agents. In December, a collection of four songs was released by the music licensing house APM (part of Universal Music Publishing) under the label Kinetik Musik. The couple has been feature in an MTV article, semifinalists in The Arkansas Times Musicians Showcase, and are CATLYZE grant recipients.
*** Booking note - Monsterboy LIVES offers both full productions of electric and lower key acoustic sets. This flexibility opens them up to entertaining at festivals, venues, events, and breweries. The eclectic selection of covers is reimagined in their signature style. While the duo's originals are represented in music libraries and are currently being pitched to tv and film placements, it's a great time to hear a song before it becomes famous. Monsterboy LIVES's music is for Beck, The Black Keys, and Morphine fans.