Kansas native and Austin resident Mike McCoy is a man for all seasons. A gifted singer, composer, songwriter, social commentator and conceptual artist from the heartland, McCoy has been making music for more than 30 years, incorporating a whiplash array of styles and genres from country-roots to punk to performance art and pop/rock. All overlap in McCoy's world. Mike founded the KC power-pop band Cher UK (Capitol Records) in the mid 1990s and has fronted other quirkily conceptual bands (often with tongue firmly in cheek) such as the Black Rabbits of Lawrence, Kansas, and two Austin critics' darlings, the American People and the Service Industry (Saustex Records). Mike is also a prolific solo artist whose latest venture, The Death Bus (digital release only), harkens back to his earliest and perhaps most natural milieu -- roots/country/balladeer. In 2015, he will continue expanding his solo repertoire and he hopes to wrap up the year with a new record.