Candy Butchers

Candy Butchers (formerly Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers) are an American band headed by singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist Mike Viola, featuring a rotating cast of musicians. The band plays upbeat Beatles-inflected pop rock. The...

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...You Do!'' and "Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story. '' Throw in his own power-pop confections both as a solo artist and with his band the Candy Butchers and you have yourself a tuneful time. 8:30 p.m. Sept. 26. $18. Lizard Lounge. 617-759-0759....

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...from Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. The track "Fire in the Canyon" contains backing vocals from the Candy Butchers' Mike Viola. Former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha adds guitar to "Seatbacks And...

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You can hear the same sense of arrested development in such current followers of the form as Semisonic's Dan Wilson and Candy Butchers' Mike Viola. Perhaps it's the genre's central contradiction - its grown-up power chords...

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...leader-turned-producer Jeff Lynne as one of his idols. A few years back, Bleu enlisted pals like Jellyfish's Andy Sturmer and the Candy Butchers' Mike Viola to help him record an album-length tribute to Lynne titled "L.E.O.'' Bleu says he...

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...real me. Forget the Mandy Moore stuff. That's kid stuff." No, it was kind of a simple, almost frivolous decision. My friend Mike Viola [of the Candy Butchers], who I wrote the whole record with, called me Amanda Leigh when we were in the...

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...also shows where Moore needs to grow. The record's tunes about love and soul-searching, co-written by Moore and Mike Viola, leader of the Candy Butchers, with help from Inara George of the Bird and the Bee, range from country-tinged folk to...

In this article: Mandy Moore, Ryan Adams, Wild Hope, Mike Viola, Joni Mitchell, Bird and the Bee, and Lori McKenna

...or whoever, just isn't very interesting. She does, however, have fine instincts and good taste. Power-pop guru Mike Viola, of the Candy Butchers, is the album's producer and main co-writer, and the collection (recorded at Ducky Carlisle's...

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...to give her total creative latitude on "Amanda Leigh" (her first and middle names). Teaming with power-pop singer-songwriter Mike Viola (the Candy Butchers) on vocals, writing and production, they took a decidedly anachronistic approach.

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...enlisted an impressive support cast for his 14th album, using the Minus Five as his primary band and such musicians as Kelly Hogan, Earl Slick, Candy Butchers' Mike Viola and Los Lobos' Steve Berlin as featured guests. The tracks are all over...

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