After nearly ten years, Madison, Wisconsin's Hum Machine has released six full-length albums and two seven-inch singles. Hum Machine has sold a total of 6000 combined copies of its six albums. All six received extensive air play in the college radio market and ended up charting in Gavin and CMJ. The highest chart came from KCWU in Ellensburg, WA at #4.
Hum Machine has played over 600 dates in its ten years of existence. After wearing out two Ford Econolines and a Chevy bus, they continue to tour the USA. Hum Machine has just finished its sixth full-length album Songs Before the Blackout. The new record will be released on July 12th, 2005 followed college radio airplay and fall touring.
Hum Machine was catapulted into the national scene when their first record Speed Kills The Dying Beat was released in 1996. The record did surprisingly well on Q101 in Chicago, IL and a short write-up in Billboard Magazine followed. For the next release, The Trance Voltage Solution, Hum Machine chose a different route and had some success in the college market. The album charted in the top 30 of over 100 college radio stations. The innovative radio editing and strong guitar hooks made the album a favorite of many clubs and DJs.
By the end of 1998, Hum Machine began working on its third full-length album, Pay Victrola. In late 2001, Hum Machine released their fourth album and followed it with a 32-date tour across the western United States. The album, No Joy In Mudville, featured 12 carefully crafted songs. "It was a great change of direction for the band. It's a sound, copious sense of what we were always trying to do," guitarist Eric Geving said.
In 2003, Hum Machine toured extensively behind their most complete and critically acclaimed effort Theorems and Compositions of The Last Action Rocker. The album was written about the long miles the band has spent on the road. Recorded at the band's own studio and mixed by Mike Zirkel (Garbage, Everclear, Promise Ring) at Smart Studios in Madison, WI, the album captures the hard traveling of an independent band on the road.
Hum Machine hit the road for 63 shows in 65 days through 38 states from coast to coast in support of Last Action Rocker and then returned home to work on their latest effort Songs Before the Blackout. Hum Machine is proud to have recorded and mixed this album entirely on their own at their medium-fidelity Irish Lane Studios. “What you hear is exactly what we are…we made this album out of our own songs with our own tools in our own studio,” says bassist Dave Hunt.
Hum Machine's goal is to continue to tour and record. And so, like The Great White Buffalo, the band continues to roam the plains, never to be lost in the heard.
Hum Machine has played over 600 dates in its ten years of existence. After wearing out two Ford Econolines and a Chevy bus, they continue to tour the USA. Hum Machine has just finished its sixth full-length album Songs Before the Blackout. The new record will be released on July 12th, 2005 followed college radio airplay and fall touring.
Hum Machine was catapulted into the national scene when their first record Speed Kills The Dying Beat was released in 1996. The record did surprisingly well on Q101 in Chicago, IL and a short write-up in Billboard Magazine followed. For the next release, The Trance Voltage Solution, Hum Machine chose a different route and had some success in the college market. The album charted in the top 30 of over 100 college radio stations. The innovative radio editing and strong guitar hooks made the album a favorite of many clubs and DJs.
By the end of 1998, Hum Machine began working on its third full-length album, Pay Victrola. In late 2001, Hum Machine released their fourth album and followed it with a 32-date tour across the western United States. The album, No Joy In Mudville, featured 12 carefully crafted songs. "It was a great change of direction for the band. It's a sound, copious sense of what we were always trying to do," guitarist Eric Geving said.
In 2003, Hum Machine toured extensively behind their most complete and critically acclaimed effort Theorems and Compositions of The Last Action Rocker. The album was written about the long miles the band has spent on the road. Recorded at the band's own studio and mixed by Mike Zirkel (Garbage, Everclear, Promise Ring) at Smart Studios in Madison, WI, the album captures the hard traveling of an independent band on the road.
Hum Machine hit the road for 63 shows in 65 days through 38 states from coast to coast in support of Last Action Rocker and then returned home to work on their latest effort Songs Before the Blackout. Hum Machine is proud to have recorded and mixed this album entirely on their own at their medium-fidelity Irish Lane Studios. “What you hear is exactly what we are…we made this album out of our own songs with our own tools in our own studio,” says bassist Dave Hunt.
Hum Machine's goal is to continue to tour and record. And so, like The Great White Buffalo, the band continues to roam the plains, never to be lost in the heard.
