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Nicholas Markos
Catchy Pop/Rock melodies: Stuart Rosenberg of Chicago Magazine says, "Nicholas Markos is the Pete Townshend of Chicago."
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4th of July | 2:46 | Play |
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I Get the Feeling | 3:24 | Play |
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Through | 4:13 | Play |
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There She Goes Again | 2:28 | Play |
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Building Up | 4:26 | Play |
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For A Young Man | 3:13 | Play |
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Once Upon A Time | 2:16 | Play |
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Boy With the Big Green Jealous Head | 2:50 | Play |
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Maybe Mary in the Meantime | 3:02 | Play |
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Brum Chippy | 3:47 | Play |
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Nicholas Markos writes and sings his own rock music, his "green-eyed soul." Not a slave to trends, genres, or formats, he simply looks into the heart of music to find what speaks to him.
While his songs are compared to the thoughtful and emotive work of Paul Weller, Pete Townshend, Van Morrison, and David Gray ("He's like David Gray without the accent... or with the accent, depending on how you look at it, I guess..." - Swifty Lazar), the songs incorporate a range of elements that reveal both Markos's depth as a musician (in addition to guitar and bass, he was formally trained on viola and saxophone) and his egalitarian tastes. "I'm not concerned with classifying my songs," he explains. "I'm just focusing on making music that speaks to me."
On the recordings and in live shows, Markos collaborates with a variety of musicians, including Todd Sucherman, drummer of Styx, who plays drums on most of the songs on "Whatever." Other collaborators include Howie Kantoff (Blue Man Group, Poster Children), Eddie Carlson (Frisbie, Poi Dog Pondering), Mark Schwarz (David Singer & the Sweet Science), and Jordan bandmate Marcos Sueiro.
Live performance credits include opening sets for Bob Dylan, Curve, Melissa Etheridge, Todd Rundgren, Roger McGuinn, The The, the Violent Femmes, and many others. Nicholas has also performed, produced, and recorded with other artists, including Cath Carroll (TeenBeat), Last Gentlemen (Zoo), and Michael McDermott.
Operating under the moniker The Hitmaker, Nicholas has also made forays into dance/electronic music with mind-boggling remixes of unlikely anthems by Journey, The Who, and others. The new The Hitmaker record, Nice Hits, is scheduled to be released in summer 2004, though bootlegs are surfacing already.
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Chicago Sun-Times
May 23, 2003
By Jim DeRogatis, Pop Music Critic
A slave to no genre, the ridiculously prolific Nicholas Markos brings to mind a hipper underground version of David Gray while recording under his own name (as on the newly reissued solo disc, "Pinata Mondatta"), but he also dabbles in amusing electronic tomfoolery via a disc of diverse remixes of "Ave Maria" (credited to Jordan) and computer deconstructions of classic rock songs on "Let There Be Hits" (attributed to his techno-saboteur alter ego, The Hitmaker). . . . .(www.tierecords.com)
DISCOGRAPHY
Nice Hits, 2004 (as The Hitmaker)
Holiday Pop, 2001
The Usual Tactics, 2000
Epiphany, 1999 (with Jordan)
"Lotta Love to Give" on The Unbreakable Chain, 1999 (with Jordan)
Scott Burrell (He's My Guy), 1998
Piñata Mondatta, 1996
True Crime Motel, 1995 (with Cath Carroll)
Whatever, 1993
Live at the Vic, 1992