NEW YORK – Long Island-based alternative-punk band Bad Mary has released Better(er) Days a 10th-anniversary collection of re-recorded and remixed versions of songs off their first album, Better Days.
In addition to the new EP, the band has released a video for its track “Don’t Know Where the Line Is,” which nostalgically connects the band’s past to its present.
“I liked the original video for the song – it was one of the first the band ever shot – and as this was a re-release, I wanted to do a kind of throw-back to that first video,” said guitarist David Henderson who also directed the video. “So, the old video is cut into the new video.”
Bad Mary band members are Henderson on guitar, Mike Staub on bass and vocals, Amanda Mac on vocals and Bill Mac on the drums. Staub said the re-recording of various tracks from Better Days was a fun project.
“For Better(er) Days, we wanted to revisit some of our favorites from our first record and re-record them to celebrate the album’s 10th anniversary,” Staub said. “We love those songs, and so many of them are still in our live sets, but we wanted to have versions of those songs that matched the recording and production on our later stuff. We think it’s a fun way to celebrate the album, and we hope you like these new versions.”
Check out the video for ‘Don’t Know Where the Line Is’ here:
Bad Mary’s music has earned airplay on SiriusXM’s Underground Garage, with the song “It’s All Trash” receiving the New Music Spotlight and both “It’s All Trash” and the song “Vibe-icide” earning the title of Coolest Song In The World in 2023. Additionally, the song “Better Days” was recently selected for both the New Music Spotlight and Coolest Song In The World. Better(er) Days was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Henderson.
Taking the DIY path, Bad Mary released their first album, Better Days, in 2014 and followed it up with three fast and loud EPs: Killing Dinosaurs (2016), We Could Have Saved the World (2016), and Glitter Bomb (2017). In 2019, they delivered The Return of Space Girl, a 33-minute punk rock space opera, followed by an award-winning animated movie of the album. Diving into 2022, Bad Mary brought their distinctive sound to the masses with the release of Rock and Roll Classics Vol. 6 and Vol. 7. An EP of all-new material, Trash And Glamour, was released in 2023.
The band is writing and recording new songs to be released later this year.
Check out ‘Better(er) Days’ here:
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– Edited by Donna Balancia