Cyrus Pireh + Mike Watt^Us

Mike Watt photo by Masanori Christianson
Debut Los Angeles Performance, in duo with Mike Watt

Cyrus Pireh, born in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, usa on March 22, 1981, is an anarchist, musician, composer, and music theorist.

As a composer, Cyrus's works involve sign manipulation with the purpose of keeping the interpretive field open. As a guitarist, Cyrus seeks the limits of the body and the self. As an anarchist, Cyrus actively works to dismantle hierarchy and to heal the damages done by capital’s division of people into performers and audience, producers and consumers. In music, it is not possible to obstruct one sound with another. All sounds combine to create one harmony. Humans in harmony liberate each other.

Some of Cyrus' recent works include the Thank You, Guitar, album (Palilalia, 2025), VISITOR album (Shinkoyo/Artist Pool, 2022), the Still Here, Still Ripping album (Astral Spirits, 2022), and a duo album with Argentine bassist ACL: Emisiones contra el régimen de normalización (Prius Discos, 2019). Cyrus was profiled on The Watt from Pedro Show radio program (2025, 2023) and in online music magazines The Quietus (2025) and Perfect Sound Forever (2022).

Cyrus has performed in venues across the usa, Argentina, and Japan and been broadcast on radio stations internationally. Cyrus currently engages with the 8000+ subscribers on Cyrus' youtube channel, continuing to build transnational connections to musicians around the world.

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Mike Watt's astonishing productivity and versatility inspire a combination of raw admiration and slight befuddlement. How does he do all this? The riffs he adds to a high-speed punk freakout are like taut little fists, yet in a quiet song the sound of his finger pads stealing along the strings is collateral beauty. He can carry a high-register melody or disappear into the background, more felt than heard. He can be propulsive or intentionally arrhythmic, the fat bottom of a blown-out jam or a choice embellishment in a controlled composition. He can deliver sludgy power or a quick little sigh.

Watt's willingness to work so widely, combined with his legendary discipline and technique, make him one of the most important bass players alive. The fact that he often works under the radar on idiosyncratic projects or limited releases makes him a nexus of thriving, overlapping independent music communities. This is role he relishes. Since 1980, when he, guitarist D. Boon and drummer George Hurley came together as the Minutemen, throughout the 90s when he fronted fIREHOSE, and into the 00's and 10's as he alternated solo albums with side projects like Banyan, Hellride, Unknown Instructors, and Dos, plus touring (and sometimes recording) stints with Porno for Pyros, J Mascis and the Fog, Tav Falco, and the reformed Stooges, Watt has been an inveterate community builder. It's virtually impossible to conceptualize the history of American punk rock, with its maze-like tendrils and offshoots, without him.
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