our good friend sam horine, along with three other very talented photographers, will be showing their work at factory fresh starting next week (from oct 10 - 31st), and the opening reception will be next friday (october 10th) from 6 to 10pm.
i’ll be dj’ing the opening party, so come on out, listen to a mugs dj set, and enjoy some amazing photography. we hope to see you there.
watch in high quality. it makes a difference. enjoy.
gowanus now has a full-frontal rock shop and lounge in the bell house, and we think gowanus likes it. it was our honor to start things off for this amazing space on wednesday night, and we had a great time warming the stage for tim fite, eugene mirman, ac newman and a whole slew of amazing performers.
a special thanks to skippy, william, jeff, and the whole staff and owners at the bell house. she’s definitely sea worthy, ready for the wide open ocean. congrats to you for building something great.
thanks to everyone who made it out. thanks to courtney, faith, and ivy for getting our music to the people. todd took some video of the show, and he will be posting parts of it throughout the next couple of days (thanks, dude). here is a link to the first one he put up (be sure to “watch in high quality”. it makes a difference):
there are many good times a comin’ to the bell house. see you there.
this morning we were featured on the “local licks” portion of the morning show on wrxp here in new york city. a special thanks to matt for the support.
todd posted some more videos, so be sure to check them out. brett put up some great shots of our artwork. we’ve also got a show coming up in september, and we’ll post the announcement here. so be sure to keep your eyes peeled…
As previously mentioned in the “good stuff happening” post, we are mining the studio hard-drives for choice morsels of sound; these morsels are then moved to our studio archive where everyone is welcome to explore, listen, and/or collaborate.
2008-02-29_Part1 (37:43) - Grubles : a supergroup (in their eyes…)
Grubles is an example of what’s great about having our own studio space: the occasional free-for-all jam. Like the annual New Year’s Eve parties, this was an open-house-family-style-play-whatever-instrument-is-available melee. Most of you may not know, but, Grubles opened for the Grateful Dead at Betty Nelson’s Organic Raspberry Farm in ‘68.
More info and other offerings over at Earfuzz, and, after the jump.
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Saturday night was amazing. Thanks to everyone for making it such a great night.
Union Hall, The Lovely Sparrows, Mr. Richard Swizzle - fantastic as always.
Thanks as well to BrooklynVegan for helping us get the word out about the new album and the show.
Todd and Bob, thanks for taking video of the show (”Arizona” featured below). Ivy and Courtney, thanks for helping with selling all of those cd’s.
Hope you all enjoy Ravel Day EP.
we’re excited about the upcoming show (8/23 with the lovely sparrows) and the upcoming release of our new ep (”ravel day ep” on 8/26).
and we went into rehearsal. it had been a few weeks since we were all in the space at the same time, and i took a few pictures. it felt pretty good. should be a good show. we will see you there.
First, some light reading music: 2006-01-28 - 70’s Theme
Added a new category to the links - kemosabes. As may seem somewhat evident from the title, these are musical extensions of The Mugs friends/family. Chocopine has just started playing out in this fair city (and doing a mighty fine job at it too). Their shows are guaranteed good time. Highly recommended. And, speaking of good times, the Big Naturals just finished up a 3 song collection - Come On In The Water’s Warm EP. Yes, the water is indeed warm. Both bands were engineered/produced by Mr. Nick Moy at our studio home base.
And, studio, studio studio… we just kicked off a collaborative music-making experiment with Ear Fuzz - Virtual Crates. Take a moment; check it out. And, if you’re interested in piecing together some future rock classics (no experience necessary) with any of this material, let us know. You can find the ever-growing archive of musical legos here.
