Sky Cries Mary

The band's first album, from 1989, featured Roderick Wolgamott playing with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow from The Posies. The second album, released in 1990, featured the same trio, joined by Scott Mercado, Alfred Butler, Stephen Brian-Salit, Mark Ultra, Kevin McCoy and Jeff Guess. In 1991, the band became a septet with Roderick Wolgamott, Anisa Romero, DJ Fallout (a.k.a. Todd "TR" Robbins), Joseph E. Howard (a.k.a. Joe Skyward), Ben Ireland, Marc Olsen and Gordon Raphael. It was during this time they recorded A Return to the Inner Experience. Cozzi replaced Olsen on the fifth through seventh albums. In 1994, Davison replaced Joe Howard. William Bernhard joined the band in 1998 after Cozzi left to pursue other projects.

Sky Cries Mary had broken up in 1999, shortly after the release of Seeds, because band members wanted to work on other projects. They regrouped in various configurations including Hana, which featured Anisa Romero, Jeff Greinke, and Ben Ireland, and No Futuro, an experimental musical project helmed by Roderick Wolgamott, William Bernhard, and Jeremy Moss. In 2004, the band (composed of Wolgamott, Romero, Ireland, Davison, Cozzi and Bernhard) regrouped after they won the rights to their music back from their old record company and subsequently released their first live album Here and Now. Two years later they followed it up with the release of Small Town.

In 2008, Sky Cries Mary's founder, Roderick Wolgamott and Anisa Romero were featured along with Sting and Russell Simmons on Lokah's debut release, The Ivy Ceiling.

Sky Cries Mary were one of the first bands to have an 'internet only' concert, an effort that was directed by former member McCoy.{{cite news|author=Strauss, Neil|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04EEDE1F31F931A15752C1A962958260|title=Rolling Stones Live on Internet: Both a Big Deal and a Little Deal|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 22, 1994|accessdate=2007-02-25|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718024456/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/22/arts/rolling-stones-live-on-internet-both-a-big-deal-and-a-little-deal.html|archive-date=18 Jul 2012}}

In 2012, bassist Jon Davison joined British progressive rock band Yes, performing as their lead vocalist. As a result, he was unavailable to rejoin the band when they reconvened in 2016.

In 2016, founder Roderick Wolgamott premiered a new line-up, alongside original drummer Ben Ireland, guitarist Ron Nine (Love Battery) and bassist Kurt Danielson (Tad).

In 2017, the band co-wrote and digitally released "War Song", a new single co-written by Wolgamott and Ron Nine. The band recorded several new songs, at Sound House with Jack Endino, who engineered Nirvana's Bleach, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger. Later in 2017, Jack Endino along with Curt Eckman (The Walkabouts), and Kevin Whitworth (Love Battery) joined the group. In September 2017, they headlined at Psychfest in Seattle. Together, the band recorded more songs, including re-releases of some very early Sky Cries Mary material.

A studio album, Thieves and Sirens, included songs from their most recent collaborations and was released digitally in 2017. A vinyl and CD release of Thieves and Sirens was issued in 2018 following live appearances in March and April.

On March 25, 2020, Secrets of a Red Planet was released on Trail Records.{{cite web |title=Sky Cries Mary – Secrets of a Red Planet |url=https://www.discogs.com/Sky-Cries-Mary-Secrets-of-a-Red-Planet/release/15007226 |website=Discogs |date=25 March 2020 |accessdate=6 April 2020}}

In January 2022, Wandering in the Vastness was released on Trail Records.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In August 2023, Everything Goes Somewhere was released on Trail Records.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} {{cite web |title=Sky Cries Mary – Everything Goes Somewhere |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/28326457-Sky-Cries-Mary-Everything-Goes-Somewhere |website=Discogs |date=15 August 2023 |accessdate=5 November 2023}}

• Until the Grinders Cease (1989) Lively Art/New Rose Records. (1999) World Domination Recordings
• Don't Eat the Dirt... (1990) Lively Art/New Rose Records
• Exit at the Axis (1992) World Domination Recordings/Capitol Records
• A Return to the Inner Experience (1993) World Domination Recordings/Capitol Records
• This Timeless Turning (1993) World Domination Recordings/Capitol Records
• Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves (1997) Warner Bros. Records
• Fresh Fruits for the Liberation (1998) Warner Bros. Records
• Seeds (1999) Collective Fruit Records
• Here and Now (2005) Hoodooh Music
• Small Town (2007) Hoodooh Music
• Space Between the Drops (2009) Trail Records
• Taking The Stage: 1997-2005 (2011) Trail Records
• Thieves and Sirens (2017) Trail Records
• Secrets of a Red Planet (2020) Trail Records
• Wandering in the Vastness (2022) Trail Records
• "Everything Goes Somewhere" (2023) Trail Records

Their song "The Elephant Song" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie The Harvest. Their song "Shipwrecked" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie Tank Girl. Their song "Cornerman" was featured in the movie Higher Learning, playing from a jukebox.

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• [http://www.skycriesmary.band Sky Cries Mary homepage]
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=Uy5mCgAAQBAJ&dq=lou+reed+sky+cries+mary&pg=PR9 book excerpt from The Patti Smith Story regarding guitarist Ivan Kral]
• [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4aZ1pDB_Kqo WFDU radio interview following release of Small Town]
• [http://www.betweenpodcast.com/blog-native/2016/2/2/roderick-romero 2016 Between You and Me podcast with Roderick Wolgamott]
• [https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/rdz84z/jack-endino-interview Noisey interview with Jack Endino]

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