About Me
My Work
The album HOTMESS is the culmination of tales from Mike Messina's years traveling from Scranton, Pennsylvania, growing up going to punk shows, tripping face in Philadelphia, having too a good a time, finding and losing love, reflections of existential crisis, and recognizing human depression and the constant battle to staying out of the grave. It's a blend of folk music he grew up on to the high energy punk music that fuels his forward momentum. A first for Messina, and far from the last.
Biography
Born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Mike Messina is a multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter. He began his musical journey at age ten when he got his first drum set. Formed his first band at age twelve with fellow classmates and wrote songs and played drums for his band Cringe. In middle school he played the upright bass mainly because of his height. Senior year of high school he began learning Johnny Cash songs on guitar, inspired to write his own, he formed several bands as frontman in the NEPA area. Traveling and living in American cities like Philadelphia, Denver, Los Angeles throughout his 20s, he wrote several dozen songs along the way, and HOTMESS became his first solo project published to date. He wrote and recorded guitar, bass, drums and vocals and recorded at All Aces Studio in Centennial, CO with producer Austin Minney. Now based in Boston, MA. he is currently working on a five song ep titled, "Zero", set to be released in the spring of 2025. He plays drums for local band, "Weighboat" and writes for other projects as well.
