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Ladies & Gentlemen,

For the sixth year running – and the first time ever under not only competent but possibly brilliant leadership from the Executive Branch of our government – I am pleased to announce the July 4th Independence Day Kickball Extravapicnic in Prospect Park!!

**Saturday, July 4th, 2009**
***NOON***
(details below)

SO!: come one, come all. Many of you know the drill. The drill is: bring yourself, bring some friends, feel free to bring some surreptitious bevvies of various potencies. We’ll be playing kickball, natch, but you should totally bring along any other park games you like. Bocce, frisbee, whiffle, etc.

Prizes will be awarded for MVP, and then any other whims of my choosing that proceed during the day.

Here are the vitals:

* Where: Nellie’s Lawn, Prospect Park, Brooklyn

* Directions: Q to 7th Avenue (enter park at Grand Army Plaza, turn southleft, walk down the East Drive, follow the sound of Joy), F train to 7th Ave. (walk up 9th Street, enter park, turn left, follow the smell of Peace), or 2/3/4/5 to Grand Army Plaza (enter park at Grand Army Plaza, turn downwest, walk down the East Drive, follow the sounds of Hope).

* When: Saturday, July4th, 2009; “True Noon,” 12:00pm – 4:00pm-ish

* Stipulations: Rain or Shine.

Hope you can make it!!

xo,

Jeremy

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Michael Jackson.

Thank you for the music.

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8pm @ The Bell House

Gowanus, Brooklyn

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back on january 29th, we did an in-studio with John Richards of KEXP for Radio New York.  as part of a great on-going series on NPR called “favorite sessions“, which is a program that provides public radio stations from around the country the opportunity to present their favorite studio sessions, kexp submitted our performance as their favorite recent session.

you can hear the session by going to npr’s music page, heading to npr’s “favorite sessions“, or by going directly to the write-up.

thanks to npr and kexp, as well as john richards and andrea monorchio for making it such a great experience.

in other news, our collective creative energies have reached a nice rolling boil, and we’re now looking at well beyond a full-length album’s worth of new material.  no release date set as of yet.  we’ll be putting this record out on our own label this fall, and we’ll be sure to get the word out when the release date is set.

we’ll be road testing some of this new material at a show in june.  more details on that as the date approaches.

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gonna host this so hard…

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on thursday nights from 8 – 10pm, radio new york (FM 91.5) broadcasts a show called “music that matters”, a show put together by kexp.

this thursday (2/19), we’ve been asked to come down to the radio new york studio with some of our favorite local music, as well as some deep cut mugs recordings and live performances, and play them on the air.

you can tune in locally here in new york at FM 91.5 as well as online.  hope you enjoy tuning in.

**update** – we had a great time hanging out with john tonight talking about our latest favorite bands limbs, mia riddle, hospitality, chocopine, and the big naturals.  thanks to sheryl for getting us into the building.  who knew there could be so many doors between the outside and the basement of the radio new york studio.  looking forward to the next time.

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this saturday (2/7) we’re hosting another evening of music at our rehearsal/ recording space at 2 prince street (brooklyn).  we have a few new additions to the night’s lineup, and it goes a little something like this:

|8pm festivities begin
|| 9pm chocopine
|||fatula
||||tiphanie readings + turntables
||||| hospitality
||||||deji readings + turntables
|||||||the mugs
||||||||humdrumboy and dick business on turntables
|||||||||possible return of doppler and west
||||||||||the soothing sounds of jungle music and drum and bass via rod doppler
|||||||||||tight white wolves!!!!!!??????

and then we’ll see what happens.  we’re planning on recording the whole night and posting a series of the performances.  keep an eye out for that.  see you there.

**update** – good times on saturday night.  thanks to all who came out and made it such a great time.  deji did a little write-up, and sam posted a few photos.  see ya’ll at the next one.

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yesterday we walked just a few blocks from our rehearsal space to the radio new york / kexp studios in brooklyn and recorded a live performance of a few of our songs for them. this live performance will be broadcast monday (2/2) as part of john richards’ “john in the morning” show on kexp as well as at 91.5 FM locally here on radio new york (9am EST, 6am PST).  be sure to tune in.

we’ll post the tracks when we get them, but in the meantime, you can see part of our performance here:

thanks to john richards of kexp, andrea monorchio of radio new york, and the engineer on hand for making it such a great experience.  you can read about what radio new york and kexp are up to here.  know they are doing something great, and we’re psyched to be working with them.

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calling all cars, calling all cars.  gowanus calls this saturday.  here are the details:

kexp presents the mugs @ the bell house
saturday, 1/17, 8pm doors
w/robbers on high street, mussels, and chocopine
plus late night DJ’s spinning with sparkle motion favorite french toast and more

this will be our last big show for a while, so come on out.  after this we’re heading into our studio for the next few months to record a new EP.  hope to see you at the show.

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Celebrating New Years Eve Eve once again proved to be a fine idea. This year, the annual festivus featured the usual snacks, spirits, improvised sounds, spray paint and good company; and, was made all the more sweet by (not one, but) two reunions:

First, Mugs founder (and new father) Ben Small was in town from Chicago.

Second, New York City’s finest lefty axe-man Brian Betancourt (of Frances and Hospitality fame) brought his freaky backwards guitar to the jam and joined his former bandmates (now 2/3rds of Chocopine) Todd “General Ambrose Burnsides” Raffa and Dave “Dick Business” Zaretsky in an impromptu Twin Nixons remembrance session.

So without further ado, here’s the tunes:

[1 overhead omni mic]

Part 1 “Come on ride the train, choo choo rider” (31:55)
Part 2 “Festival Express” (41:45)
Part 3 “The Mugs 5″ (28:54) – … Ben’s Ship… Frank, Firm Ground, Daisy Cutter
Part 4 “Twin Nixons +” (29:31) -
DJ time… but… but… TIGHT WHITE WOLVES!!!!!!!
TWW 1
TWW 2

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