SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MVSEVM – Salamander in Two Worlds (live 3/5/2024)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (often abbreviated to SGM) is an American experimental rock band, formed in 1999 in Oakland, California. The band fuses classical, industrial, and art-rock themes throughout their music. They are known to perform elaborate routines on stage and discuss possibly fictitious stories of dada artists and mathematicians.

According to the extensive liner notes for Grand Opening and Closing, the name “Sleepytime Gorilla Museum” comes from a small group of Dadaists, Futurists, and artists named the Sleepytime Gorilla Press. The group owned and operated what they called a “museum of the future” which was “anti-artifact, non-historical and closed.”

REVNION & NEW ALBVM (2023)

On March 22, 2023, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum changed their Facebook cover photo and included the message “Rise you must” and updated their bio to read: “The museum of the past hides the future.” On April 27, 2023, they posted an image of sheet music titled “BRING BACK THE APOCALYPSE“ and included the hashtag #sgm2024.

On August 21, 2023 their Kickstarter campaign named “Save the Last Human Being!” went live. They had set a primary goal of crowdfunding $75,000 USD to put toward completing a full-length studio album, titled Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being, a short film, titled The Last Human Being: A Critical Assessment, and a short tour. A stretch goal of $100,000 USD was set to help fund “a nationwide U.S. tour.“ They funded their primary goal in approximately two days.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum performs live @ Club Metro Salt Lake City UT 3/5/2024