Brokedown Palace (Grateful Dead Cover)

Wading in the Velvet Sea (Phish Cover)

Mayonaise (Acoustic Smashing Pumpkins Cover)

Day and Age (Julian Lage Cover)

Always Be My Baby (Mariah Carey Cover)

Way Down In The Hole (Tom Waits Cover)

Disarm (Smashing Pumpkins Uke Cover)

A stripped-down elegy for the old Democratic machine. Written from lived experience, not hearsay—Mac Hoffmann served as a staff attorney in the Illinois Capitol. Recorded live in one take. No names, just truths.

The Fall of the Velvet Hammer

Make Her Wonder

Love You All the Way

Cracking Jokes to Cover Up the Pain

Leave it at a Look

Laundry Love Blues

MacHofffman_WBEZ_NPR_Interview

We're. Done. Here. (Demo #3)

Mac Hoffmann is a Minneapolis-based songwriter crafting lyric-driven, flatpick-friendly Americana. Formerly a staff attorney in Illinois politics, he now writes songs at dawn and records them straight to the bone. His debut single The Fall of the Velvet Hammer drops June 2025—an acoustic elegy for the old machine—followed by the EP Midwest Finesse in July.

Mac Hoffmann

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