{"id":2441451,"date":"2019-03-07T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=300832"},"modified":"2019-03-07T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T23:00:00","slug":"andrew-mcmahon-returns-to-belly-up-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/andrew-mcmahon-returns-to-belly-up-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew McMahon returns to Belly Up Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew McMahon\u2019s second full-length album as \u201cAndrew McMahon in the Wilderness\u201d<\/a> is a personal piece of work, written and recorded solo over the course of a winter in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Inspired by relationships both intimate and fleeting, real and fictional, \u201cUpside Down Flowers\u201d includes songs about his wife, his daughter, his former bandmates and his grandmother along with imagined ones like a runaway girl riding a bike, a desperate gambler at a table in Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve sent this record to friends who have said it\u2019s my best and to some who never replied,\u201d McMahon said upon the album\u2019s release in October. \u201cWhat that means in the long run, I have no idea. What I know is this came from someplace primal and practiced and true.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 36, McMahon is an 20-year music industry veteran who has been through a lot: he\u2019s been a teen idol, a pop-punk frontman, a singer-songwriter, a cancer survivor. The former lead singer of Something Corporate and Jack\u2019s Mannequin returns to Belly Up Aspen on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The project, begun with a solo writing session quite literally in the wilderness at a remote California cabin, boasts introspective piano-driven pop songs with an electronic and anthemic streak.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve committed to do a few-year run where we put a bunch of records out and tour our asses off to get people up to speed with the new stuff,\u201d McMahon said of the project before his Aspen debut in 2016.<\/p>\n

The new band has launched a handful of hits like \u201cCecilia and the Satellite\u201d and shown McMahon\u2019s loyal fan base a new side of the artist. His Aspen debut three years ago included a mix of the new material alongside songs from his previous bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all pretty cohesive as it transitions between the new and the old,\u201d McMahon said before that show. \u201cIt ends up being pretty fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

McMahon has earned a reputation for adding some prop-based shenanigans to that fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point I\u2019ll end up riding an inflatable duck through the audience,\u201d he said with a laugh.<\/p>\n

Weaving old songs \u2014 some of which he wrote at 16 \u2014 into the new band\u2019s sound has been pretty seamless.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made an effort to stay true to the songs and the seed of them that people fell in love with in these songs,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t hear from people, like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s a different version.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after Something Corporate went on what ended up being a permanent hiatus in 2005, McMahon was diagnosed with leukemia. He was 22. The tumultuous period of illness, treatment and recovery, McMahon said, shook the fearlessness he\u2019d come to rely on creatively.<\/p>\n

\u201cComing out of having cancer and then getting better, there\u2019s still a lot of underlying fear and almost a crisis of confidence that you have about everything,\u201d he said. \u201cYou look at the world in a completely different way.\u201d<\/p>\n

He founded and still runs the Dear Jack Foundation, a nonprofit for adolescents and young adults with cancer. After making two Jack\u2019s Mannequin records while in remission, he decided to start fresh as Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the reason I put Jack\u2019s behind me and started this project was to put that chapter behind me,\u201d he said. \u201cI was starting to get that fearlessness back, feeling like I could blaze a path and not look back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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