Smile Politely chooses Müscle Wörship’s Champaign show as an editor’s pick!

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The Deli Magazine previews Müscle Wörship’s homecoming show at Replay Lounge. Check it out here!

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The Pitch previews Müscle Wörship’s homecoming show at Replay Lounge:

If you’re looking for a relaxing weeknight show, you should steer clear of the Replay on Thursday. Lawrence rock quintet Muscle Worship is about the furthest thing from chilled out, and these guys wouldn’t have it any other way. The group makes wild, reckless-sounding music and puts on live shows known for their formidable volume. But it’s not meathead stuff; Muscle Worship’s self-titled LP, released this past March, is a complex, varied offering that balances punk influences with an affinity for noise.

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Larryville Chronicles previews Müscle Wörship’s homecoming show at Replay Lounge:

And it’s not Christmas in LFK till shit gets LOUD, so catch Muscle Worship at the Replay on Thursday along with American Cream (great name!) and This Is My Condition. We expect they’ll all be playing some holiday favorites, cranked up to 11. And you surely haven’t lived till you’ve heard Craig Comstock’s version of “Silent Night.” (spoiler alert: it ain’t very fucking silent). Muscle Worship is just back from tour, and you may have heard that they’ve joined up with The Temp Agency. You can find all kinds of sweet press on the band via The Temp Agency’s site…Also, how in HELL did we not realize that Müscle Wörship uses not one but two umlauts. As fans of unusually punctuated bands, we can dig it!

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DC Rock Live reviews Müscle Wörship’s show at The Velvet Lounge:

[Müscle Wörship is] a power trio in the manner of Mission of Burma and have a highly similar noisy approach to pop, very ragged, very jagged. I also hear some of the noisy guitar moves Honor Role did live…A really fun set by a very interesting band. I would be happy to hear more any time.

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River Cities Reader features Müscle Wörship in advance of their Quad Cities show this Monday. Check out an excerpt:

There’s the lean aggression of punk, the experimental complexity of post-punk, the general heaviness of metal, extensive use of the tremolo bar that sometimes recalls the signature guitar sounds of both My Bloody Valentine and Neil Young, alternative tunings that bring to mind Sonic Youth, a grunge-y emphasis on hooks and distorted melody, and even hints of emo in the vocals.

The magic is that – on Müscle Wörship’s self-titled debut album from earlier this year – those disparate elements have been combined in a way that, against all odds, is nearly monolithic: 32 furious minutes of great and nearly great infectious hard rock. (And just to be clear: The whole record is 32 minutes.) The group’s music has three very different methods of persuasion – forceful enough to grab you by the throat, accessible enough to suck you in, and intricate enough to get lost in.

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The Total Scene interviews Müscle Wörship on the importance of umlauts, margaritas at SXSW, and splitting drummer dibs with The Appleseed Cast.

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Brightest Young Things recommends Müscle Wörship’s show in D.C. later this week!

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HughShows interviews Müscle Wörship in advance of their show in Pittsburgh!

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Nak You Out features Müscle Wörship in advance of their Pittsburgh show at Howler’s on December 9th!

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Smile Politely previews Muscle Worship’s upcoming Champaign shows during the band’s December tour, and features them as an Editor’s Pick!

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Brooklyn Vegan previews Müscle Wörship’s upcoming Brooklyn show at Glasslands, and shares the band’s tour dates and album stream:

Muscle Worship’s self-titled debut LP, which came out earlier this year, is packed with raw riffage and distorted vocals that fall somewhere between the attack of post-hardcore and the sharp quickness of post-punk.

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