The legendary Mark Mallman — a brainwave-hacking rocker, viral music historian, and piano smashing composer who's written music for Rick and Morty, General Hospital, and The Morning Show. His explosive stage presence and nonstop musical output have earned him features in NME, Wired, Pitchfork, and NPR. He’s honored with a star on the Minneapolis-famous First Avenue nightclub, where he’s been repeatedly named one of the Midwest’s best live performers.

His albums have pulsed with joy, resilience, and radical hope. The Red Bedroom (2002) featured members of The Promise Ring and The Replacements. Invincible Criminal (2009) included collaborations with Craig Finn of The Hold Steady and Shannon Frid of Cloud Cult. Yet beneath the spectacle and audacity lies a thoughtful songwriter. Happiness (2021) served as a companion to his acclaimed 2019 memoir The Happiness Playlist, which chronicled his experiment to overcome panic attacks by listening only to uplifting songs for six months. That book — a love letter to Minneapolis and to rebuilding a life one song at a time — earned national acclaim for its honest look at music’s therapeutic power.

Mark Mallman wrote and performed Marathon, a 78 hour epic rock song with 100 backing musicians in 2010, earning him a commemorative day from the City of St. Paul. In 2012, he completed Marathon IV: Road Rogue — an eight-day, 180-hour nonstop performance streamed live from a van crossing the U.S., using biometric gear to create music from his brainwaves during sleep and electronic instruments by day. It was the first-ever transcontinental mobile musical webcast.

Today, he's known as one of the most popular music historians in the vertical world. Millions of people have viewed his 1000+ videos. But this June comes the biggest shift of all - Magic Time — his 11th album — is a supernatural concept record chronicling the weird, gritty, and mythic reality of life as a touring musician in America. Blending horror imagery, cryptid folklore, and 25 years of van life, the record plays like a haunted mixtape of ghost stories and sonic spells. Songs reference Christopher Lee, Mothman, witches, and Mount Misery Road — one of the most haunted streets in America.

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