Moes Haven

**Moes Haven** is a band formed by Matt Farley and Tom Scalzo while both were students at Providence College in Rhode Island, in the late 1990s. Incredibly prolific, they have released over 25 albums as of 2020.

Matt and Tom met their freshman year and lived on the same dorm room floor. They originally recorded under various different names, but eventually settled on Moes Haven, which is a misspelled tribute to jazz pianist Mose Allison and guitarist Richie Havens.

The band has played live only very rarely. It played a battle-of-the-bands in college, and played a coffeehouse in Wisconsin in 2004. It also played in a fan's basement ("Tim's Basement") in Jefferson, Massachusetts on May 26, 2007. Because the band is so prolific, they have often noted they can't even remember how to play all of their songs.

In 2006, they engaged in a project to record an album every day. Each month they released one album based on that month's best work. In Feburary 2007, Farley hosted an eight-day nonstop listening party for all of their 2006 output. The project gained Moes Haven the most press attention they would ever receive, which wasn't all that much, frankly.

After completing the album-a-day-project Moes Haven pledged not to make another album for five years. This plan is laid out in the song "Moes Haven's Five Year Plan", the last track on the *December* album. *Stromboli’s Alarm Clock* was completed in 2010, however, so the band broke the pledge and it was released early. In Farley's 2013 autobiographical film *Local Legends*, he claims that in 2023 Moes Haven will reunite to record an one last album titled *(Several Supreme Beings Told Us To Make This) One Last Album*.

Around 2008 is when Farley realized that among all of the Moes Haven catalog available online, only their silly songs were making any money at all. It dawned on him while earning $2 on one song in a year wasn't much, earning $2 per song on thousands of songs could be a real income, and would also be amusingly ridiculous.

Farley artists have written songs about Moes Haven, including:

* "Tom Scalzo is the Keith Richards of Moes Haven" by The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan on *Unofficial Tributes to Officially Awesome Music People (2010)*
* "A Review of 'Stromboli's Alarm Clock'" by The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan on *Songs About Albums: Record Reviews and Ruminations* (2011)

## See also

* Archive.org capture of Moes Haven myspace page, August 2011

*Out With the Old* (2004) • *Dislocated Songs* (2004) • *Svetlana* (2005) • *Someone Else.* (2005) • *Explorations in Madness* (2005) • *Moe's Haven* (2005) • *Sir Paul Made Ram. We Made This.* (2005) • *Down With Memories* (2005) • *January* (2006) • *February: From the Bayou to the Barnyard and Back* (2006) • *March: of the Aliens* (2006) • *April: What A Cruel Month* (2006) • *May: I Buy You A Sandwich?* (2006) • *June* (2006) • *July: In The Sun With Me?* (2006) • *August: of Temporal Inconsistency* (2006) • *September: In Manchvegas* (2006) • *(SH)OC(K)TOBER* (2006) • *November the Tar!* (2006) • *December* (2007) • *If Not Us, Who?* (2007) • *This is My Millennium* (2008) • *Stromboli’s Alarm Clock* (2010) • *Metal Detector Maniac* (2022) • *(Several Supreme Beings Told Us To Make This) One Last Album* (2023)
**Compilations**: *Victory is Ours! (For Now)* (2007) • *It Takes a Lot of Guts!* (2009)
**Songs from Deep in the Vault (1996 - 2010)**: *Vol. 1* (2013) • *Vol. 2* (2017) • *Vol. 3* (2017) • *Unheralded Origins of Genius* (2021)

**Moes Haven** • The Big Heist • The Toilet Bowl Cleaners • Matt Motern Manly Man • Brennan McFarley • Caniko Tucci • Papa Razzi and the Photogs • The Very Nice Interesting Singer Man • The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan • Projection from the Side • The Finklestinks • The Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities And Towns • The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee • The Hungry Food Band • The Strange Man Who Sings About Dead Animals • The Singing Animal Lover • The Paranormal Song Warrior • The Great Weather Song Person • The Spoiled Chefs (with Kevin McGee) • Single song bands • Sports bands • No Jokes • Full 75+ band list on home page

## References

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1. ↑ Michael Witthaus. Moes Haven, seriously, *The Hippo* (January 13, 2011)
2. ↑ Moes Haven, Villians Always Blink (August 8, 2007)
3. ↑ Amanda Weiss. Moes Haven's Appropriately Detailed Year: An Interview, *Tone and Groove* (March 2007)
4. ↑ Febre, Erica. Moe’s Haven presents Manchester Stark Park, Adam Sandler, Bob Baines and Hippo appear in Matt Farley’s songs, *The Hippo* (January 7, 2007)
5. ↑ Jones, Dana. Recording An Album A Day, *The Portland Phoenix* (January 13, 2006)
6. ↑ Kanner, Matt. Moes Haven Victory Is Ours! (For Now), *The Wire* (New Hampshire) (May 2, 2007)