I kind of feel like the recurring headline for Michael Rudolph Cummings as regards solo stuff should just say “…Continues to Do Cool Shit” and leave it at that. New EP coming from the Boozewa frontdrummer, and apart from the golly-I-wonder-who-it’s-about “I Only Play for Money” leading off with a fuller-band arrangement around its post-grunge flow, and two acoustic cuts, his new EP Money rounds out with “Denver,” on which Cummings layers harmony and Dale Crover (Melvins, etc.) provides drums while Mlny Parsonz of Royal Thunder plays bass. I guess it’s nice to have friends. Probably helps when you’re not an asshole. I assure you I wouldn’t know.

Cummings will join Boysetsfire on their 30th anniversary European jaunt this month and will reportedly have a full-length out in 2025 to follow-up last year’s Ripple-issued You Know How I Get (review here), which is neat, and the EP is out Sept. 10 and is short, sure, but has even more going on than the names dropped above. So yes, as noted, Cummings continues to do cool shit.

No public audio from Money that I’ve found, but info and dates from socials:

September 10th 2024 my brand new ep “Money” will be released.

I’m so proud of this and I can’t wait to share even more of what I’ve been working on all year when I hit the road for the remainder of 2024 in Europe and the states alongside boysetsfire, Strike Anywhere, Coma Hole, Scissorfight, The Obsessed and MORE!

Tracklisting:
1. I Only Play For Money
2. Deny The World (acoustic)
3. Easier To Leave (acoustic)
4. Denver

See you all sooooon

Michael Rudolph Cummings w/ Boysetsfire & Strike Anywhere
European tour:
28.09 Wiesbaden DE Schlachthof
29.09 Amsterdam NL Melkweg
30.09 Hamburg DE Grosse Freiheit 36
01.10 Berlin DE Huxleys Neue Welt
02.10 München DE Backstage Werk
03.10 Wien AT Arena
04.10 Karlsruhe DE Tollhaus
05.10 Köln DE Palladium

mRc – guitars/vocals
Dale Crover – drums
Mlny Parsonz – bass
Patrick Shannon – guitars
Mike Bardzik – drums/electric piano
Dennis Pendergast – guitars
Chris Haug – bass

https://michaelrudolphcummings.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/backwoodspayback/
https://www.instagram.com/backwoodspayback/

https://instagram.com/boozewa
https://boozewa.bandcamp.com
https://www.BOOZEWA.com

Michael Rudolph Cummings, You Know How I Get (2022)