Monster Mash Big Head Todd and the Monsters have always seemed a bit detached from their jam-band brethren. Most of frontman Todd Park Mohr’s tunes reveal their muscles early, usually sidestepping for a prolonged solo or two, before returning to the already-in-progress groove. The closest song they’ve had to a hit — the slow-burning “Bittersweet” — doesn’t sound like anything else in their catalog, but it does approach the jam-band scene’s mood-over-melody aesthetic.
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This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 18, 2006.