The Mannequin Men have been called a garage rock band, a "scuzz rock" band and a group of the "drunkest, snottiest, amp-blowing" guys in Chicago. But lead singer and guitarist Kevin Richard doesn't ...

Mannequin Men are on tour with Puerto Rico’s Davila 666 (who have released music on In The Red and HoZac). Friday night the two garage rock bands played Southpaw in Brooklyn. I went for Mannequin Men ...

Chicago garage rockers Mannequin Men are set to release their new self-titled LP on November 8th via Addenda Records. You can stream clips of each song on the 12-track album over at their site. The ...

KALAMAZOO-- Chicago band Mannequin Men's new album, "Use Your Illusion, Too" (Flameshovel Records, 2009) is scuzzy but not too scuzzy, loud but not too loud. "It's sort of just what comes naturally," ...

Mannequin Men, the scrappy, beer-fueled underdogs of Chicago’s garage-rock scene, have officially decided to call it a day, after 11 years of making jangly, spirited punk rock. The band parts ways on ...

Even though Reader columnist Miles Raymer plays bass for Mannequin Men–the kind of situation I usually approach with caution, as his editor–I think it’d be a case of allowing decorum to override good ...

When a band is made up of former record-store clerks, screenprinters, and music writers, you can pretty much bet on a quality product. Mannequin Men have just delivered their most quality product to ...

Thirty-plus years after the proto-punk movement dissolved, young bands still dive into the sludge, bringing back the menacing bash of The Stooges and The Heartbreakers, and all the primal romanticism ...

"If it's a million degrees and the world is on fire, where do we have a show? The desert," Kevin Richard, lead guitarist for the Mannequin Men, laughs from his van heading up Highway 5, "That's how we ...

July 17: The Mannequin Men, a raucous garage band from Chicago that plays a juvenile blend of sweaty rock, wallows in the mythos of outlaw depravity. Equally renowned and reviled for being obnoxious, ...