Name: Butch Bastard
Start: 2026-06-02T18:30:00.000Z
Location: The Hug and Pint

Butch Bastard is the moniker of Ian Murray (he/him),a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producercrafting literate, emotionally resonant music.Originally hailing from Seattle and now based in LosAngeles, Murray’s work as Butch Bastard reflects adeep commitment to narrative songwriting, melodicsophistication, and a quietly defiant independence.What began as a solo endeavor following his tenurewith the indie band Poor Moon (a side project of FleetFoxes members), Butch Bastard has steadily evolvedinto a vessel for sharp, wry observations and starklyintimate confessionals. Across a growing discography,he navigates themes of alienation, love, failure,parenthood, and artistic survival with disarmingclarity and often bruising humor. The production is wholly his own—warm, analog-tinged, and unhurried—often recorded in home studios, capturing performances that feel bothdeliberate and unguarded. With each release, Murraydraws the listener further into his world: one wherelyricism takes precedence, where irony and sinceritycoexist, and where the personal becomes poeticwithout ever losing its grounding.Whether performing solo or with a rotating cast ofcollaborators, Butch Bastard’s live shows reinforce the project’s rawintimacy and literary bent. The songs invite not just listening, but reckoning—an invitation to sitwith the uncomfortable, the beautiful, and the unresolved.Butch Bastard is not simply a musical project; it is an evolving document of one artist’s attemptto tell the truth as he sees it, one brutally elegant song at a time.

Butch Bastard

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