Fifteen Minutes of Fame Music Entertainment

Originally Published on September 25th, 2025

About the Artist

Sometimes, I look at the things people do and I wonder, when do they have time to sleep? The first person that often comes to mind is the one-man wrecking crew being the force that is Neccos for Breakfast, Daniel Grigson. This guy is constantly going. Writing and recording music for Neccos for Breakfast, running a label and production company with Necco Records, creating and founding a social media platform; an entire virtual community for independent artists, from all walks of life, all over the world in CAN!, to advocating for fair pay, useful resources, and networking with companies who are aligned in those same missions, all to support and fight for independent musicians. Every time I talk to him, he’s telling me about a meeting he’s had, a conference or retreat he’s going to, an artist he’s working with, or a song he’s writing. I personally get maybe 5 hours of sleep a night and there are many days where I wake up in the morning to a text from him and, when I respond, he’s right there, texting right back. Seriously, when does he sleep?

Dan, aka, Neccos for Breakfast, is a guy that does it all. But today, we are talking about Neccos for Breakfast and “their” music. Neccos for Breakfast wasn’t always a one man show and they’ve been playing music for quite some time. Their first release, an album entitled Blue Hair Day, released on January 1st, 2001. Infusing surf rock, garage band and punk rock, Blue Hair Day features big guitars, dynamic percussion and bass, synths that diversify their sound, and vocals that showcase unique melodies, harmonies, and layers that draw comparisons to a number of different artists like Weezer, Nirvana, and Barenaked Ladies.

It would be 23 years before they would release their follow up, More Like Me, which featured great songs like the intimately popular Nerd Rock. It was after More Like Me that Neccos for Breakfast would become a solo project, with Grigson opted to carry on with the legacy of the band. Last year, Grigson released Disco Helmet Man, a song paying tribute to an independent artist who went viral in a moment where they were victim to a bit of online bullying. Grigson, moved by the outreach, wrote the song and in a moment that would inspire the pursuit of collaboration, decided to release a music video that would call on independent musicians from all over to contribute.

Read the FMOF Review of Disco Helmet Man

Grigson is an open book and he’s got a fascinating story to tell. One thing that he is very open and transparent about is his mental health and how he was diagnosed with ADHD later in his life. The revelation of this diagnosis being something that he has been battling, unknowingly, for so long, has been a moment of clarity for him. Earlier this year, he released his song, Tell Us How You Feel on Bandcamp. It explores struggles with mental health; the highs and lows associated with goals and expectations; how independent artists can struggle with relevance, acceptance, and feeling validated.

About the Song

Mass Murderers Anonymous is the second release by independent artist, Neccos for Breakfast in 2025. It released on September 11th, 2025 and runs at around 4 and a half minutes long. It features Grigson on, well everything. He provides vocals, guitars, and bass, with the drums being provided by an unnamed musician. Grigson also wrote the song (twenty years ago). He engineered, edited, mixed, and mastered it. Serving as songwriter, performer, and producer, through his artist name Neccos for Breakfast and his label, Necco Records.

About the Music

“Human life continues to be devalued in so many different ways, and we have built institutions that support this trend, even foster it. Unfortunately, violence is not just AN option. For many, it seems to be the ONLY. Option” ~ Daniel Grigson, Bandcamp

Mass Murderers Anonymous is an alt punk, garage band, surf punk, tune to its core. Channeling vintage alt rock sounds inspired by bands like Weezer, Everclear, Butthole Surfers, and The Offspring, Neccos for Breakfast’s latest track could fall right in with a playlist of that caliber. It opens all at once, from a queue from the vocals. It is an up tempo song, but not too much so. It has a comfortable groove; a steady rock pace.

In it’s original beginnings, Mass Murderers Anonymous was originally penned to serve as a track to be played in an independent film. However, Grigson shelved it. Until this month. Upon witnessing yet another very publicized act of violence carried out on a very public figure, he was motivated to speak out against all of the violence taking place in America and around the world. The song (slightly inappropriate pun incoming) takes aim at the established endorsement and and “business” behind violence. How gun violence has become a political engine. How advocacy and opposition fuel funding for politics, leading school shotting to be one of the most topical yet taboo debates in our country. The weapons industry is a trillion dollar industry; astonishingly lucrative. Mass Murderers Anonymous challenges its listeners to step back and think about the absurdity of that for a moment.

Final Thoughts

I have the fortunate privilege of being able to call Dan my friend. What I can say of my friend is he cares deeply about what he invests his time in and he says things with his full chest. Very often, he puts others before himself. For those who’ve had the opportunity to learn this, as I have, they can attest to this.

In a way, this is what he’s done with Mass Murderers Anonymous. There is gun violence every day in America. At a STAGGERING rate. For the incident that occurred to spur the release of this song, it happened on a college campus, technically making it a school shooting AND it wasn’t the only school shooting that day; there was another one. As a member of the generation that grew up watching the news as Columbine High School was tragically turned into a war zone, to what has snowballed into a plethora of unspeakable violence taking place in schools to where we have elementary school students teaching adults in places of business, procedures on how to protect themselves and each other in the event of an active shooter presence.

Grigson doesn’t align himself with the beliefs of the victim who was speaking on this day. His beliefs are, in fact, far different. Most in particular, he does NOT agree with how this person died. He admonished this act of violence, as he admonishes every other one. He, like many people is feeling every bit of stress from the tension that is driving a wedge between Americans. He is hurt by the division. Mostly, his heart is breaking from witnessing the bloodshed. He decided to do something about it.

If I could offer up one piece of advice to the rest of the world it’s this.

Be like Dan.

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