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Forget having a milky way, sink your teeth into a Milky Soul
Interview By: Geoff Dellinger
Band/Artist: Milky Soul featuring Joe Ward and Mario D
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Website: www.homepage.mac.com/joeygibson/ or www.myspace.com/milkysoul
Most Current Album: Ten Days In Texas
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Taking time away from gazing at the billboard depicting Mario with two of Hollywood’s hottest actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Pamela Anderson, I managed to get his undivided attention. It was a tough task at hand then again if you were on a billboard with those two women you’d be standing around gazing at it too. This group is the epitome of charismatic, energized funk. They mix up a flurry of different styles to create their own. Well without further ado let’s see what Mario of Milky Soul has to say on a plethora of topics. This should get interesting.
Entertainment World: Tell the world who you are and what you have set out to accomplish?
Milky Soul: Joe Ward and I just want to make music people can dance, drink, and have a good time to. Without fear of being punched in the face or shot before the night is over.
Entertainment World: What kind of music can we expect to hear?
Milky Soul: Kick ass rock, hip hop, funk, country, and metal all wrapped in one big slammin’ package. You never know what might come out next.
Entertainment World: Who are your musical influences or artists you look up to?
Milky Soul: Most of our influences keep dying, Cobain, Bradly, TuPac, but the go from Willie Nelson to Outkast so it is hard to name just a few. But my brother (Joe Ward) is a big influence for sure. He had a band on Interscope called Brutal Juice.
Entertainment World: What methods are you using to market yourself and get your music out there?
Milky Soul: Internet, Myspace, live shows and a ton of hard work.
Entertainment World: What’s the hardest aspect to accept about the music industry?
Milky Soul: Trying to get in touch with the right people for your particular vibe and goals in the industry.
Entertainment World: If you could change anything about the industry what would it be? Why?
Milky Soul: The idea that sheer volume of product and profit is the same as talent and creativity.
Entertainment World: What can we expect to see in the near future from Mario? (CD, DVD, tour, etc)
Milky Soul: The new CD will be out in March “Ten Days In Texas”. Live shows every opportunity we have to play them all over Los Angeles and beyond.
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Entertainment World: Favorite movie?
Milky Soul: Clockwork Orange.
Entertainment World: Favorite actor or actress?
Milky Soul: Much love and respect to Chris Penn and his brother Sean, two of the best. Peace Chris.
Entertainment World: CD you cant live without?
Milky Soul: Radiohead “OK computer”.
Entertainment World: Best video game platform?
Milky Soul: I don’t have time for games I snowboard and play basketball for real.
Entertainment World: Ipod or actual CD?
Milky Soul: Ipod
Entertainment World: Favorite type of TV show (sitcom, drama, reality, home make over, etc)?
Milky Soul: Seinfeld, curb your enthusiasm, and lesbian NEXT.
Entertainment World: Celebrity you'd like to be caught in tabloids with?
Milky Soul: Mario D punching Kevin Fedderline would be HOT. “F” the tabloids.
Entertainment World: Location of biggest portion of your fans?
Milky Soul: Los Angeles.
- Entertainment World Magazine - Geoff Dillinger
Milky Soul – Ten Days In Texas
Electronic rock hop is what I’d have to call their style of music. They even add in a little twang to keep things way off the music industries beaten path. “Lonestar” is a perfect example, hot rhymes on top of some electronic sounds, a little keyboard and some twang in the background. Their sound is very organized and could take over clubs across the United States. A fun filled “Stretch” almost resembles the classic Sir Mix A lot cut “Baby Got Back” and will have you grinning as your shaking your rump. They close out the four song demo with “Same Ol Sh__” which when you hear the lyrics you will be agreeing with everything they have to say. Joe Ward and Mario D make up this group and have just created a new musical genre.
Review by-Geoff Dellinger
- Entertainment World Magazine - Geoff Dellinger
On the other end of the spectrum and the far side of the country, there's an interesting group named Milky Soul. Their sound comes across as unequal parts funk and zipper-fast 808, with several distinct nods to Miami/booty bass-style production. Of the tracks available on myspace, all four emphasize a clean and speedy delivery involving liver abuse, love, sex and adventures with weed. Cognac and 125 are the clear winners, with Lonestar coming up close behind. Strings isn't bad, but it's more of an extended joke about in-shape ass than anything. Still, they're clearly succeeding at entertaining themselves as well as the listening audience. Where some latter-day groups either seem to content to mock their own Beck/Beastie influences or don't don't don't shut up about keeping it real, Milky Soul delivers a strangely catchy weird amalgam that sounds closer to a career than a day job.
- sixeyes.blogspot.com
Discography
Lonestar
125
Stretch Them Strings
Cognac
Real Thing
Pass That
Follow Me
Drop It To The Wood
Same Ol' S..t
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Bio
The band Milky Soul was formed in late 2004 by Joe Ward and Mario D. Later, they joined up with DJ Benny Ill and that is now the killer line up that is Milky Soul. Joe Ward and Mario D met in 2001 when Joe Ward moved from Austin, Tx. to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. After a long struggle looking for the right person to team up with to back him for his unique brand of country punk rock rap Joe Ward had Mario D join him live on stage. The mixture was so electric and the crowd was so blown away the two decided that this was the perfect fit for both of them. They played live shows performing Joe Ward signature hits like Lonestar, Stretch Them Strings, and Same Old Sh#t. They have played at clubs like The Roxy, The Viper Room, On the Rox, and the Dragonfly. They have also had hugely successful blowout shows as such LA rock and roll staples as Boardners. Milky Soul music is infectious and crosses all genre boundaries making all types of music lover shake their butts and rock their heads to the beat. They just finished recording the Hip Hop album "TEN DAYS IN TEXAS" in Dallas with ex Brutal Juice front man Gordo Buzz Gibson. The album is an amazing collection of booty shakin classic Hip Hop and Rap mixed with live instrumentation and Joe Ward rapid fire machine gun rhyming. Mario D comes alive as well with his signature Cuban style. These guys know how to rock and add a live hard rock band to their shows from time to time to really mix it up and drive audiences wild. They are by far one of the most exciting acts out there and they are hard at work making themselves the best there is.
The group known as Milky Soul has a sound all its own. Don't take it for granted when the term "hip hop" is stated as their genre, because you can't categorize their sound. What they do is a mixture of hip hop with a funky sound, a cup of rock a tinge of punk crossed over into some country, blended with rock en espanol, smoothed out to form dat thang called Milky Soul that will make you shake dat ass (you wont be able to put it down). So when you get a chance, listen, and see in person Joe Ward, Mario D and DJ Benny Ill. They can rock with only turntables, or with any band in any genre. Live the experience. We all need a little Milky in our life.
Joe Ward was born in Manila in the Phillippines. He was raised in central west Texas in the town of Abilene. His father was a guitar pickin' Texan and his mother an Irish immigrant that grew up playing piano with greats like Nat King Cole while traveling Europe with her father's big swing band. Joe Ward had his first band at the tender age of thirteen, a punk rock trio named Clairveua Casualties. Very quickly he discovered Hip Hop and realized that he had real talent at writing rhymes. He quickly formed a Hip Hop/Punk Rock band named Hypenosis. When Joe Ward was around 19 he was front man for yet another group called Big Daddy Junior and the Spook which was a Rock, Punk, and Hip Hop mixture. Joe Ward has an original style due to his mixture of old school Hip Hop, Punk Rock, and Rock and Roll all rolled into one. For a few years he lived in Austin, Texas while attending The University of Texas. While there Joe Ward was involved with many different projects including The Bomb, OUCH, and Cracker Barrell. The current and most exciting project is Joe Wards’ Los Angeles based group Milky Soul which has been tearing up the clubs for the past year and a half. With Joe Ward, Mario D, and DJ Benny Ill backed up by some of the best hard rockin musicians in the business, this group is set to blow the doors off of any venue they play.
Mario D was born and raised in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, Ca. Mario D has been involved in many different styles of music, his main influence being Cuban music which he grew up with because both of his parents were Cuban immigrants. Mario D’s salsa rhythm can be felt throughout his Spanish verses that are both fun and enticing to the ear. Mario D has been involved in everything from old school breakin crews with the homies in his neighborhood, to beat boxing and rhyming crews that would blow up house parties back in the day. Mario D is now working with Joe Ward in Milky Soul and the mix of the two is perfect. Mario has Cuban style and flair all his own, and set against the angst ridden country attitude of Joe Ward it goes together like sweet and sour. On stage Mario D is a force to be reckoned with. Having done photo shoots with stars like Pamela Anderson and photographer Dave La Chapelle, Mario D is no stranger to the lime light.
Also see:
www.myspace.com/milkysoul
www.garageband.com/artist/milkysoul
www.purevolume.com/milkysoul
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