Don't Mind Dying & Down Side Up

DON’T MIND DYING
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BC, Hunter O’Donnell, Travis McFarlane, Brian Kent, and Jason Caton

Don’t Mind Dying is a blues infected rock and roll band from Columbia Missouri, who have opened and performed with awesome and diverse bands such as Clutch, Galactic, The Supersuckers, Scorpion Child, Royal Thunder, The Hooten Hallers, The Many Colored Death and The Flood Brothers. DMD have won awards (best blues rock band 2015, 2016, and 2017, best rock band 2016, best bassist 2015, and best vocalist 2015 and 2017) at the Mid Missouri Rock Awards. In 2015 DMD played the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas. In September 2017 they released their first full length LP, “I Drink With Ghosts”
If you dig swampy blues and Black Sabbath, we’re your boys!

“On ‘I Drink With Ghosts’, the Columbia band isn’t fighting off or hiding from the specters and shadows of rock past, present, or future. Rather, as the title suggests, the band invites them in to have a couple tallboys and jam on a blues scale.” -Aarik Danielson, Columbia Daily Tribune

“Genre tags are played out, but if you had to slap a label on Don’t Mind Dying, neo-classic rock would be apt. The Columbia band bears resemblance to everyone from The Black Crowes to Black Sabbath yet plays with an uncaged urgency that puts it squarely in the moment.” – Aarik Danielsen, Columbia Tribune (Mar 06, 2014)

“A rare gem found in a field full of fluff. Don’t Mind Dying has the musicianship, the vocals, the just plain raw talent and energy that’s been missing from almost everything else you’ve heard in the commercial market in the last decade. If you’re a fan of soulful, guitar-driven rock with a bluesy and ballsy edge, you need this album!” – iTunes review (Feb 15, 2014)

DOWN SIDE UP

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Down Side Up was formed in 2006 by 5th graders: Ryan Mankin, Aaron Mankin, and Joe Lawler in order to blow Immaculate Conception’s student body’s mind at the 5th grade talent show. The show would go down infamously in history and Down Side Up’s journey would begin. Joe Lawler soon after parted ways, but will always remain a founding member. In order to prepare for the 7th grade talent show Ryan and Aaron would join forces with friends Jason Kremer (lead guitar) and Adam Buhr (bass). This team in fact did go on to nail their talent show performance and make several house party, birthday, and county fair appearances. Freshmen year of high school the band once again parted. Aaron Mankin and Ryan Mankin were soon introduced to Helias High School Senior, Hunter O’Donnell, bass player. The three of them and guitarist Jason Kremer once again prepared for yet another talent show but their audition was denied. Ryan Mankin, Aaron Mankin, and Hunter O’Donnell, the current lineup, began their long jouney of vengeance, delving deep into themselves and harnessing their Rock n’ Roll chakra. The trio began playing bars/music venues in 2013 at such establishments as the Mission in Jefferson City, MO and later the Bridge in Columbia, MO, now located in Jefferson City. Down Side Up released their first EP “Down Side Up”, recorded and produced by Pete Szkolka Music Productions, in March of 2015. The band has since released three singles: “Hollow Street”, “50 Reasons”, and “Jibberish”, recorded and produced by Jack Gue with Winksigh Recorders formerly known as Meth Lab Recording Studio. The boys of Down Side Up play their original music as well as classic rock and 90s covers all over Jefferson City and Columbia, Missouri, and are always working on new material which they hope to release in the future.