Madahoochi has been an institution in the St Louis music scene for 9 years, playing over 800 shows and authoring three CDs. They recently returned from the 10,000 Lakes Festival in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and also played this year's Wakarusa Music Festival and Terrapin Hill Festival. For the past three years they have played weekly at Cicero's, and have emerged as a taut and energetic musical machine. They have been nominated in the Riverfront Times Music Awards for four years and were named Best St Louis Jamband 2004 and 2005 in the RFT Best of St Louis.

Madahoochi began recording their newest CD "In Fantastic Stereo" a year ago at Smith Lee Studios, using funds won at the 2003 Cicero's Battle of the Bands. This CD marks a dramatic change in the band's take on studio recordings; previous efforts have carefully kept the "live sound" of the band intact and allowed for little additions to the live arrangements, whereas In Fantastic Stereo saw multiple guitar, keyboard and vocal lines in abundance. The band was determined to explore each song using studio technology, which produced a work more full and balanced than even their live arrangements.

The music spans the spectrum; lovers of all genres can find a home with Madahoochi. One notices first that the band both embraces and shuns pop format, producing short, simple pieces as well as verbose songs with multiple changes and styles. Also immediately evident is that the lead vocals are split evenly among the band's three singers, two male and one female, adding continual evolution to the show. Harmony is everywhere in Madahoochi's music, as is their empty-yet-thick timbre. Also apparent is a whimsical quality that shows up in the band's text, which is full of stories that are fantastical and surprisingly dark. Most importantly, Madahoochi's stage show is full of energy and excitement, which pours back and forth between the band and the fans.