#hotmayo

(All photos by Rafael Alvarado)

I spoke to Jorge Alvarado, the singer of Hot Mayonnaise, Rochester, NY’s premier rock band. They recently recorded their debut album, Heavy Moments, to be released in the near future by Reel Time Records.

The band consists of Skip Taylor on Vocals/Drinkin’, Johnny Watkins on Guitars/Drinkin’, Donny Watkins on Bass Guitar/Drinkin’, and Reginald “Bunny” Hopkins, on Drums/Drinkin’ and chain smokin’.

They list their influences on the band’s sound as “Alice Cooper, Blue Öyster Cult, MC5, The Stooges, Judas Priest, Jim Dandy, The Rolling Stones, Motörhead/Lemmy, leather boots, bathroom parties, beer, ladies, fast cars, motorcycles, and drugs.”

So far, they’ve been on two small weekend tours covering some of the east coast. This upcoming summer, they have a two week tour in July to support the new album. Many more shows will come after the summer.

Heavy Moments was recorded February 10-12, 2015, at the Main St. Armory in Rochester. The album was influenced by “alcohol /drugs, women, lots of Alice Cooper, late night parties, Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones, milk, Tyranny and Mutation, shitty jobs and way too much snow.” Their only previous release was the Bathroom Tapes, Vol.1.

A video posted by Hot Mayonnaise (@hotmayonnaisemusic) on Jan 21, 2015 at 6:36pm PST

Hot Mayonnaise live at the Bug Jar.