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: […]
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 […]
you can pick up one of these mugs oven t-shirts by heading over to our buy page and clicking some buttons (nick moy available separately).
in other news, our new ep is now mastered. we are now in packaging (brought to you by our packaging expert, brett tieman, see example below, photo by sam horine). more […]
in case you missed it, this is what we did for mother’s day last year:
happy mother’s day
while we record…
while we mix…
we’ve been giving our microphones and pre-amps a workout over the past few weeks. there is a lot of material going around. and about an EP’s worth is getting recorded, and re-recorded. and then re-re-recorded. and we’re having fun. and it looks like the EP will appear sometime this summer.
here […]
because we wanted to provide our latest album in the highest of fidelity, we decided to put our new album, Here Tomorrow, on 180 grams of america’s finest vinyl. you can order your own copy on our merch page, or you can click the paypal link below:
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last tuesday we had the pleasure of visiting and performing at woxy (located in cincinnati, ohio). just before we left, they handed us a burned disc with our performance on it, and we figured we’d put it up so you could enjoy the show anytime you wanted. so here you go…
the mugs @ […]
Well, we’re a couple days behind schedule getting this posted up here, but we finally figured out how to get it working. Enjoy!
Get the Flash Player to listen to this album.
/**/ The album will be officially sent off into the world at our release show at Union Hall on Saturday, and will be available […]
so we put two songs from the new album up on our myspace page. we had the songs arm-wrestle over the weekend, and the songs “lady liberty” and “woman opens man” reigned victorious. enjoy.
it has been a while since i wrote a marathon session of a post, and there is no better time to write a wrap-up than in the splendor. having returned home from a brooklyn cookout of the house of a true brooklyn family, i figured it was the right time to do what i […]
Here are some election day treats:
The Mugs @ KEXP (10.12.06)
-> Broken Signals, Frank, Lady Liberty, Arizona
[You’ll notice the file is hosted on our friends’, the Putrid Flowers, web site; make sure to check out the rest of their site for more rock classics (and some NYC history).]
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Seattle->NYC Slideshow
-> NYC photo genius Sam Horine (f.trainer) joined […]
here is a new track i put together, and it is the first one i did with samples. my brother, todd, and i found these two cases full of 45’s on the street about 2 years ago, and they are now getting put to some good use. i’m going to get better at this, but […]
now that i stopped “working” so much, i got some time to put some ideas down. after a few frustrating trials, i got something together that i was excited to play for the group. jeremy put some vocals down on it, and i tried a few new things in terms of tracking. […]
my cousin owns the Dr. Groove DR-202 boss drum machine, and i have wanted to borrow it for a while. so i traded him the fugs “second album” for it. i tinkered around with it for a while (haven’t figured out how to incorporate the roll function yet) and came up with a […]
You can download our performance from the KEXP showcase from iTunes for free. Search for “KEXP” in the iTunes store, click on “KEXP Live Performances Podcast”, and you’ll find it. Or grab it here.
Many thanks to KEXP for being a great radio station and a supporter of what The Mugs are up to. […]
