[Cover photo features Mark Mulcahy and Chris Harford circa 1996]

Indie Rock supergroup Birdfeeder are releasing their new album, Woodstock (Soul Selects) on April 12, 2024. The band is comprised of members of the late 1980’s Boston music scene Mark Mulcahy on drums and vocals (Miracle Legion, Polaris) and Chris Harford on guitars and bass (3 Colors, Band of Changes). The album was recorded and produced in 2021 by Kevin Salem (Dumptruck, Freedy Johnston) at Distortion Tank Studios in the town that gave the album its name. Salem also plays guitar on the album.

Woodstock features eight songs, all of which were originally written and demoed on a 4-track Fostex cassette tape machine in 1996. The first song, “So Triangular,” is out now on all digital providers and is accompanied by a video.

Chris Harford and Kevin Salem have been friends since the days of the 1980s Boston music scene when Salem was in Dumptruck and Harford in 3 Colors. The third member of Birdfeeder is Mark Mulcahy, familiar to many as a solo artist, and formerly as frontman for Miracle Legion.  

So far this is a one-off collaboration, as Mulcahy explains:

Beyond the pleasure of being with those two guys, guys that I like, there was the pleasure of being… quick, I guess is the word. There was the pleasure of the speed of it.

The performances on Woodstock were recorded in just a day and a half, for the simple reason that, according to Salem, whose studio is depicted on the cover as photographed by Mulcahy, “That’s how long it took to make the record.”

The songs never found their moment, and yet, says Harford of the demos, “I never let it go.” Eventually, when the time felt right, he played them to Salem, who describes them in the present tense as being “amazing, just full of spirit.” With his endorsement and engagement, Mulcahy came down to Woodstock.