the News
- Miho Hatori, from Cibo Matto, is releasing a solo record, entited: Ecdysis, with Sebastian and Mark playing on many tracks. It's due out on the 24th of October and you can order it here.
- Doughty and his band are about to embark on a fall tour with the Barenaked Ladies. The scheduled dates are below. As they are likely to change from time to time, check Doughty's tour page for more up to changes.
MIKE DOUGHTY'S BAND
supporting Barenaked Ladies, fall 2006
October
23 - Manchester, NH - Verizon Wireless Arena
24 - Amherst, MA - The Mullins Center
25 - Rochester, NY - Blue Cross Arena
27 - Detroit, MI - Palace Of Auburn Hills
28 - Cleveland, OH - Wolstein Center @ CSU
29 - Columbus, OH - Shottenstein Center
November
1 - Boston, MA - Agganis Arena
2 - Philadelphia, PA - Spectrum
4 - Washington, DC - Patriot Center
5 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
6 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
8 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live
9 - Atlanta, GA - The Arena at Gwinnett Center
11 - Austin, TX - The Backyard
12 - Ft. Worth, TX - Will Rogers Auditorium
14 - Omaha, NE - ..... Qwest Center
16 - Chicago, IL - Allstate Arena
17 - Cincinnati, OH - U.S. Bank Arena
18 - Madison, WI - Alliant Energy Center
19 - St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center
21 - Denver, CO - Magness Arena
22 - Salt Lake City, UT - E Center
25 - Portland, OR - Theatre Of The Clouds
26 - Everett, WA - Everett Events Center
28 - San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
29 - Los Angeles, CA - Gibson Amphitheatre
December
1 - Las Vegas, NV - Aladdin Theatre
2 - Phoenix, AZ - Dodge Theatre
3 - San Diego, CA - RIMAC Arena
- First off, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Mr. Doughty!
- Yerba Buena has some shows lined up. Check with their website for more information.
Sat 06/24/06 Taos, NM Taos Solar Music Festival
Thu 07/13/06 Istanbul, TUR Istanbul Jazz Festival
Fri 07/14/06 Istanbul, TUR Istanbul Jazz Festival
Sat 07/15/06 Istanbul, TUR Istanbul Jazz Festival
Mon 07/17/06 Casablanca, MOR Stage Place
Tue 07/18/06 Casablanca, MOR Stage Place
Sat 08/19/06 New York, NY Randalls Island
Sun 09/03/06 Vancouver, BC Croatian Cultural Center
Mon 09/04/06 Seattle, WA Bumbershoot Festival
Fri 12/01/06 Brooklyn, NY Academy Of Music
Sat 12/02/06 Brooklyn, NY Academy Of Music - Also, Sebastian will be playing with The Dixie Chicks this summer. I am not sure how this affects the tour with Yerba Buena or if he's even involved anymore.
- Mike Doughty also has a bunch of shows coming up. They are:
Thu 06/08/06 Buffalo, NY Lafayette Square
Fri 06/09/06 Toronto, ON Lee's Palace
Sat 06/10/06 Troy, NY Revolution Hall
Mon 06/12/06 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Fun House/Theatre
Wed 06/14/06 Providence, RI Lupo's At The Strand
Thu 06/15/06 Philadelphia, PA Theatre Of Living Arts
Fri 06/16/06 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Sat 06/17/06 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
Sun 06/18/06 Manchester, TN Bonnaroo Music Festival
Tue 07/04/06 Chicago, IL Taste of Chicago
Wed 07/05/06 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
Fri 07/07/06 Minneapolis, MN Basilica Block Party
- Mike Doughty has a bunch of MP3s for sale on iTunes. You can order them here. Here's the track listing.
- The Gambler (studio version)
- Strange Powers (live on XM Radio’s “The Loft”)
- St. Louise Is Listening (live on KCRW)
- Busting Up A Starbucks (live on KEXP)
- The King Of Carrot Flowers (live on KEXP)
- Janine (live from the street in Seattle)
- Yerba Buena has a new record out! You can order it here. Also be on the look out for Sebastian on the road with them.
- Mike Doughty's first official solo record is out. You can buy it here. Word on the street is that it's slick and poppy. Pick up a copy today!
- The FAQ is back up!
- Mike Doughty's Skittish/Rockity Roll is on sale today! Pick it up here.
- Sebastian Steinberg showed up on William Shatner's latest CD, Has Been on a handful of cuts playing bass. It's an amazing record featuring the likes of Joe Jackson, Ben Folds, Aimee Man, Lemon Jelly, Henry Rollins and Brad Paisley. Totally a strange & quirky record, but is interesting and well put together, none the less.
- Mike Doughty just signed a deal with ATO Records (David Gray, Gov't Mule, Ben Kweller, My Morning Jacket, etc...). Skittish and Rockity Roll will be re-released as a two-disc package (talk of unreleased tracks to be included) and there will be a new studio album coming in Spring 2005.
- Sebastian Steinberg is on tour again with Yerba Buena. Be sure to check them out in a city near you - they are an incredible latin hip hop funk band.
- I just got off the phone with Sebastian. It turns out he's been working with Randy Kaye on getting together the long awaited Soul Coughing DVD. So Sebastian asked me to post something up here to see what the fans had. Please contact me if you have any good quality videos of Soul Coughing. More news as it happens.
- There is a new interview on SCUG conducted by Andy with Mark De Gli Antoni talking more about the Kufala Records releases among other things. You can view it here. This interview will be published in SMASH Magazine, but you can view it here first!
- Mike Doughty will visit Seattle's KEXP radio on Tuesday, June 22 before his show at the Crocodile for an interview and acoustic performance. Mike is on air at 4:00 PM Pacific time (7:00 PM eastern).
In the Seattle area, tune in at 90.3 FM; everywhere else, listen in live online at KEXP.org or through the Radio tuner in iTunes (under Alt/Modern Rock).
- Mark is pretty much done with Horse Tricks II and Tempo Team. Tempo Team is Mark De Gli Antoni, Yuval Gabay & Sebastian Steinberg with various guests. These releases will be coming out as a split CD in the fall on Olympus Mons Records. Samples coming soon!
- Mad props to Mary Ann (Iceered) for all the great pictures she sent me of Doughty (solo shows) and Sebastian (w/ Yerba Buena) on tour. You can view the new pictures here.
- New FAQ. Please feel free to submit your own questions in there.
- I apologize for any lack of updates in a long while. I've been pretty busy these days with my label, studio and thought of buying a house here in DC. --- Well the tide has changed yet again. The live Soul Coughing discs we've been waiting for, have come out! We send mad props to Brady at Kufala. Kufala are taking orders right now, but CDs will not be shipped until the 29th. The shows are as follows:
Rennes, France 12/03/1994
Tokyo, Japan 02/03/1997
New York, NY 08/16/1999
Berlin / Amsterdam
Live Rarities
Each double disc show is $20. The whole set can be purchased for $80. Click here for all the information and to order. And from Kufala.com:
We are happy to announce the release of our Soul Coughing Live series. One of the most unique cult bands of the '90s, Soul Coughing anchored a new crop of quirky, unclassifiable bands that emerged in the post-grunge era. Their live shows were legendary and these 5 2 CD sets were hand picked and compiled by keyboardist Mark De Gli Antoni. If you are the superfan and want to get all five albums check out the 4 out of 5 deal. Enjoy.
- In other related news, Mike Doughty has released another EP entitled "Rockity Roll" - It features 6 new songs. It's just Doughty and a drum machine. It's pure. It's raw. It's Doughty. You can get more information at mikedoughty.com or you can go to his store here. Doughty also has a mini tour planned out for the month of April. Details on his site.
- News with Yuval is great. He has been in Bristol for the past few months rehearsing to hit up another, but larger, tour with Roni Size. More news on that once the tour has been laid out.
- And in SCUG news, you must go check out the new Photography Gallery. It's been totally reworked and indexed and there are tons of new pictures in there. Go ahead. Do it. It will make you feel better.
- The Live Soul Coughing series will not be coming out anytime soon. If anything changes, you'll hear it here first. From Kufala.com:
Though we have tried our best, we regret that the higly anticipated release of live Soul Coughing albums will be delayed indefinitely due to internal band issues. While Kufala will continue to try and make these albums available to the public, we will not be able to release them in the immediate future. Please sign up on our email list and we will let you know when (and if) we will be able to release them. Thanks for your patience, understanding and support. The record business can be a tricky business to be in and we appreciae your understanding...as huge Soul Coughing fans, we're as disappointed as you are.
- Doughty has also launched a brand new site. mikedoughty.com for more details.
- So the roller coaster continues... There are some legal difficulties that are getting mended out right now. This is causing a problem with releasing the Kafula Live Soul coughing CD Series. Hopefully in due time this will all work itself out and the good music of Live Soul Coughing will in the hands of the best fan base ever. Be sure to check out the Message Boards as Sebastian (posting as Skink) has been posting there lately. Please check back here for all the news, as it happens.
- In more productive news, our friend Sebastian is doing shows with Lisa Germano and is working with Yerba Buena which Sebastian describes as "a crazy afrocuban hiphop ting".
- We have good Soul Coughing news! I've been in contact with Brady, who used to work at Liquid Audio and would get hooked up with goodies from Mark and the rest of Soul Coughing. You remember all the stuff Opus and Mat put up? Well all of that was possible because of Mark and Brady and of course the boys we all know and love who once existed as Soul Coughing... With that aside, Brady has since been involved with starting a Record Label. He puts out live recordings of artists and has been working with the boys in getting out some splendid live releases of Soul Coughing. As of now there are plans for 5 double CD live releases, and hopefully more. Each 2 CD set will be priced at $20.00 which includes shipping (3 day delivery to most locations / 5 days to Europe). All 5 shows will be sold as a set for $80.00. We'll have all the details and ordering instructions as soon as they come in. And for more information on Brady's Record Label click here.
- From Kafala's website:
In March of 2000 after eight successful years together Soul Coughing decided to go their separate ways. They released three critically acclaimed albums and toured the world. Soul Coughing’s live shows were legendary and for the first time they are being released. Keyboard and sampling guru Mark De Gli Antoni has been combing the archives to find some of their finest performances. Check back in early Feb. for more information on which shows will be released and ordering information.PS. Happy New Year!
- From Kafala's website:
- Sorry for the lack of updates. On a personal side I have been very busy with my record label and finishing my darkroom.
- In real Soul Coughing related news, Doughty has decided to take down the message board he has hosted for a few years now. People are invited to chat on SCUG's Message Board. Hopefully this will provide an open and positive community for all Soul Coughing fans to chat on.
- Mark's site is finally up (http://www.horsetricks.com) - there it's too much there, but i am sure it will be a mecca for cool stuff in the future. Keep a look out.
- Mark has also informed me that Cherish is out. And if you dont remember it's the latest movie he has scored. Go check it out! It was a Sundance favorite. Directed by Finn Taylor (who wrote the screenplay for Dream with Fishes (1997) and Pontiac Moon (1994) and stars Robin Tuney, Liz Phair, Jason Priestly and Nora Dunn. Check out the Cherish website here.
- from billboard
The seven-year career of idiosyncratic jazz-pop quartet Soul Coughing will be surveyed on "Lust in Phaze," due March 19 from Rhino. The set will contain 20 songs culled from the group's three Slash/Warner records -- 1994's "Ruby Vroom," 1996's "Irresistible Bliss," and 1998's "El Oso" -- plus scattered rarities including a live version of "Casiotone Nation," a Propellerheads radio edit of "Super Bon Bon," and the non-album track "Buddha Rhubarb Butter."
Pre-Order Lust in Phaze"Lust in Phaze" will come packaged with a band history by New York Press editor John Strausbaugh and track-by-track notes from frontman Mike Doughty, who formed Soul Coughing in 1992 with drummer Yuval Gabay, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, and keyboardist Mark De Gli Antoni.
The group's first two albums were critical successes, but its biggest chart showing came with "El Oso," which debuted at No. 49 on The Billboard 200 in October 1998. The album contained Soul Coughing's biggest single, "Circles," a No. 8 hit on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.
- Happy Christmas, Merry Channukah, etc. etc. Just heard from Mr. Mark DeGliAntoni and he sure has been busy that past few months. He just finished scoring that feature film about two and a half weeks ago. 'Cherish' directed by Finn Taylor (Dream with the Fishes) starring Robin Tunney, Tim Nelson, Nora Dunn, Liz Phair, Jason Priestly. It's now in the judgement round at Sundance and then has it's theatrical release in the spring. Mark says, "I'm really happy with the score." Sebastian Steinberg, Lisa Germano, Nashio (Nortec Collective), among others are guests on this soundtrack.
- Doughty (*******) is selling a holiday package. You get an autographed Skittish CD, a tshirt and 3 stickers. What a deal! All for $34.00. I am not sure if this includes shipping. And Doughty (*******) has signed 203 copies of those "Skittish" CDs with his name, as well as a totally unique FAKE WORD. Each word is guaranteed 100% FAKE and completely Mike Doughty's (**** *******'s) invention. Check out his website (www.*********************.com) for a complete list of all 203 FAKE WORDS. Be sure to tell them SCUG sent you. Order it here.
- Mike Doughty has some shows this week with G. Love and Special Sauce. More information can be obtained in the SOLO TOURDATES section of SCUG and at MikeDoughty.com.
October 13, 2001:
- Mike Doughty just annouced he'll be playing with G Love for Halloween in Chicago at the Riviera Theatre. Order Tickets. Mike Doughty's BBS is also back in effect at MikeDoughty.com.
- Mark DeGliAntoni just got a new gig composing the score to an upcoming film entitled "Cherish."
September 18, 2001:
- What a horrific past week. I wish you all the best and hope you are all hanging in there ok. As people have been asking me how the boys are doing, I thought I would report in. I just got word from Mark that he is fine and he says that Sebastian and Yuval are equally fine in NYC. This is what Doughty had to say on his BBS:
By mike doughty (Admin) / mikedoughty27@aol.com on Thursday, September 13, 2001 - 10:41 pm:
hi, got a lot of concerned emails, and i just wanted to say that i'm okay. i was stranded outside of manhattan for two days, as i was driving home from northampton the day of the bombing. i hung out at a friend's in connecticut until i could get back here. i'm back, very shaken, but i'm okay and everybody i care about here in new york is too.
August 26, 2001:
- UV Ray (featuring Yuval Gabay and Sebastian Steinberg of SOUL COUGHING) is playing a show at Wetlands Preserve in NYC. For those of you who dont know, Soul Coughing used to play there a lot. Some really great performances came from that club. The club will be missed by a great many people. So, show your support and come out to see UV Ray on Monday, September 10. The show is with Project Logic featuring DJ Logic. Doors at 8pm. For more information on Wetland Preserves click here.
August 23, 2001:
- News from superspecialquestions.com:
SLANKY will DEFINATELY NOT be in stores on september 9!! please don't order it from amazon, you'll be waiting for it forever. literally.
soft skull has hit a rough patch financially--they're just not able to release it at this time.
i'm hoping to print up a bunch and sell them online, soon as i can. i know this is a big drag, everybody. i'm sorry about this.
August 18, 2001:
- Mark DeGliAntoni performed the entire score for the Mike Stamm film "Ashes to Ashes." You can view the film here. Enjoy!
Mike Doughty's poetry book can now be pre-ordered through AMAZON.COM. Click here for more information. August 3, 2001:
- I've been in contact with Mark and he is working on new material as I type this. I will have more news about this as soon as I get more complete details. Doughty, I mean Mike Doughty, is on tour as he is always with his lil' cute geetar. He has a few upcoming dates. Check out the Tourdates for all the info. And if in the Northampton, MA area be sure to check out the club he is playing at. I saw J Mascis there years ago. Incredible lil' hole in the wall. NEW MESSAGE BOARD! Get your post on.
- Yuval Gabay is all over the CD called ACTION FIGURE PARTY. Other musicians on this CD are: Flea, Sean Lennon, Gary Novak, Fima Ephron, and Yogi. Order this CD here.
July 31, 2001:
- Apologies for the lack of updates. I had to square away the domain issues with WBR and what not. I am back in back and will have more updates asap! Thanks for the patience.
January 10, 2001:
- Happy New Year!
- Mark De Gli Antoni has just finished scoring the music for a film directed by Mike Stamm. The short 33 minute film is called "Ashes to Ashes." Mark, credited as "composer," wrote all the original music and has this little bio on the webpage. Director Mike Stamm told me about what Mark did for the film:
Mark worked feverishly to assemble a dense, multilayered collage of samples of the
kind he does so well. In the case of Ashes To Ashes, Mark relied heavily on
organs, bells, chimes and harps, but threw in plenty of other weird things
like distorted guitars, clanking noises and sounds I can't even figure out.
- There are five outtakes from Mark's score that have been uploaded to the website. You can hear them here.
- Also credited on this film is fellow Horse Trick's mate Joe Bini who edited the film. More information can be found at ashestoashes.net and SCUG will keep you posted as to when the movie is completed and available to see or download.
- UV Ray will be playing two shows this month. Jan 11th and Jan 18th at Baby Jupiter in NYC. (170 ORCHARD ST CORNER OF STANTON, 1 BLOCK SOUTH OF HOUSTON) Also playing will be playing will be: DJ Somatic & DJ Designer Imposter. They will be recording both shows and the recording will be available soon! More news on that ASAP.
December 22, 2000:
- Milford Graves + John Zorn's Bar Kokhba + Sex Mob at the Tonic on Dec 31, 2000 in NYC.
at 8:00pm & 11:00pm, $40, $45, $65. Early show with Milford Graves, late show with Sex Mob!
Celebrate New Years Eve with Milford Graves, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Joey Baron, Erik Friedlander, Mark Feldman, Cyro Baptista, Sebastian Steinberg, Steven Bernstein, Kenny Wolleson, Briggan Krauss & Tony Scherr. Starting at 8pm - Milford Graves solo followed by Bar Kokhba, $40 At 11pm - Bar Kokhba followed by Sex Mob, $45 includes champagne toast. Stay all night! - $65. All tickets include access to the subTonic lounge. Professor, herbalist, healer, Milford Graves is first and foremost one of the world's great geniuses of the drum. He has contributed to historic recordings by Albert Ayler, New York Art Quartet, Sonny Sharrock, Guiseppi Logan, and Paul Bley, as well as his own legendary dates as a leader, the latest of which is Stories (Tzadik). A very rare solo appearance. John Zorn's Bar Kokhba chamber arrangements of his adventurous and inspiring Masada compositions take these tunes into deeper and darker realms. As ever, Sex Mob will charge into the New Year armed with three chords and the truth!
For more information check out the Tonic's own webpage: http://www.tonicnyc.com/eventsframe.cfm
December 20, 2000:
- SCUG can now be viewed at scug.net !!! Enter your email address to join the Soul Coughing Underground news mailing list and be notified when there are updates to SCUG and/or news related to Soul Coughing & offspring.
- "Never Gonna Come Back Down" made Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Best Singles of the year. Congrats M. Doughty & BT!!! Thanks to Gina for the scan. Here is the scan: (click for larger image)
Mark, Sebastian and Yuval are working in a project called "Tempo Team." Just this past week they did a track called The Dirty Bride. Sebastian said it sounds "kind of like a silent movie for your ears." Earlier this fall they worked with CX adding some loops and beats. They plan to record more material as well and I will have more news on that as it happens. Our dear friend Mark is on the new LOW single, "Dinosaur Act." (TUGSCD024) Mark plays on the B-Side "Don't Carry It All." The record is released on TugBoat Records. (www.tugboatrecords.com) As you may recall Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker from Low also appeared on Mark's Horsetricks.
December 12, 2000:
- There is an interesting new interview with Doughty on MTV news. Here is the link.
- In other news there is a new BBS out there in addition to superspecialquestions.com for Doughty. This one is aptly titled superspecialanswers.com and supposedly deals with Sebastian, Yuval and Mark.
December 05, 2000:
- UV Ray have some more shows set up for this coming month. We'll all be at the NYC show. Hope to see you there! Dates on the Tourdates page!
November 22, 2000:
- UV Ray have some songs available for you to hear now. You can hear them here. Look for the record out sooner than later. I'll keep you posted.
November 15, 2000:
- Doughty has a little blurb on mtv.com - here. Mark has just finished up a score for an film in San Francisco called Ashes to Ashes. Yuval and Sebastian are still working on UV Ray (rumours are the record is recorded, it just needs to be mixed.)
- And Sebastian will be hitting Europe with Marc Ribot.
November 13, 2000:
- Doughty's UK tour has been canceled. More news as it happens.
November 07, 2000:
- UV Ray was great! Thanks to all who came out. We all had a blast! I will keep you posted on all the upcoming shows and when the UV Ray CD will be releassed.
- Doughty's solo CD is out as well. You can order online at: superspecialquestions.com. Just click on "how to order SKITTISH."
November 01, 2000:
- UV Ray will be playing two shows in NYC on thursday and friday of this week. Details in the tourdates page. I will be at the show on friday with Kristen, Jessica, Al, Ms. Houser (thanks for calling g money- you rock!) Rachael, Caco and Stacy! Come out!!
October 25, 2000:
- M. Doughty will be hosting "Idiot's Delight" on 102.7-FM in NYC on November 12th.
October 7, 2000:
- Added Chris Whitley dates to the Solo Tourdates page. If you don't know already: Sebastian and Yuval are touring with Chris Whitley as his backup band. I have heard from a friend that the band is very good therefore you should definately check them out. I will be seeing them at the Birchmere in VA. Hope to see you there.
September 28, 2000:
- Chris Whitley along with Sebastian and Yuval will be performing live on worldclassrock.com Oct. 4th at 1:00pm PST.
- There are also going to be instore apperances at record stores across the country