Marquette, Michigan guitar-slingers Liquid Mike have announced a new album, Hell Is An Airport, due September 12. “Airports are these weird, intermediary spaces that have always made me feel like I’m ...

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Marquette, Michigan’s Mike Maple has been making crunchy, fuzzy, hooky indie rock as the frontman of Liquid Mike for a little more than three years now. His music draws from a few ’90s influences ...

Hello, world! Meet Mike Maple, AKA Liquid Mike, AKA the latest in a long line of songwriters with a preternatural gift for capturing exactly how it feels to realize you’re spinning your wheels and no ...

Marquette power-pop Band To Watch Liquid Mike are known for their prolific output and for pairing gargantuan walls of guitar with even bigger hooks, all of which continues today. The band just ...

Just last year, the Marquette, Michigan crunch-pop savants Liquid Mike, a pretty recent Stereogum Band To Watch, released their album Paul Bunyan's Slingshot. It fucking rocks. Thus far this year, ...