Mudhoney News, 2002

Saturday, November 23 (Updated 12/11/02) Sonic Infusion Video: A video for Sonic Infusion has been filmed and released to music video outlets. A description of it from Mark:

bIt's a performance bookended by a concept. The band footage was filmed on a soundstage in front of a green screen. There's a scientist in a laboratory who put us under a stereoscope. An explosion happens for some reason. The band grows bigger. The lab guards come in a shrink us back down with ray guns.

The video can be seen online at launch.yahoo.com.

Friday, November 22 Steve Record News: Steve will be releasing a split 7" (BBB007) with Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter on Burn Burn Burn Records (burnburnburn.com) on April 5. His songs will be Nothing But the Blues and People Take Trips, while Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter will contribute Moon Over Troubled Town. Steve's full length record will be titled Searching For Melody (named after one of the songs on the release) and should be out in the May on Rosalyn Records in the United States and Loose Music in Europe.

Friday, November 8 Mudhoney on Compilation: Sub Pop will include an Infecting the Galaxy One Planet at a Time promo sampler CD with all online orders of at least $20.00 through January. The CD includes Sonic Infusion.

Thursday, September 12 Mudhoney on the Radio: JJJ in Australia will be featuring Mudhoney on the JJJ Files tonight from 10:00PM - 1:00AM local time (PDT + 1500-1700 hours). Featured on the show will be Touch Me I'm Sick live at JJJ in 1991, an interview with Mark from 1993 about his favorite songs, and Sweet Young Thing live from 12/31/98. The full playlist as well as a webcast is available from JJJ's website.

Wednesday, September 11 Peel Session: The Peel Session that Mudhoney recorded on September 8 will be aired on BBC Radio 1 on October 2, sometime between 10:00PM and midnight GMT. The show will be webcast live at www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1.shtml and archived at the Radio 1 John Peel site for later listening. b

Friday, August 30 (Updated 9/10/02) New Single: On September 24, Sub Pop will release a 7" of Sonic Infusion (edit) b/w Long Way to Go (SP0603-7). The release will be limited to 500 copies. Preorders, as well as an image of the cover, are available from Sub Pop's website.

Friday, August 30 Another Steve Solo Release: There's talk of Steve releasing another record, with new songs that are not from the Studio Litho or Egg Studio sessions. Things are in the very preliminary stages, but it looks like it could be a split 10"/CD with Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter on Burn Burn Burn Records, or a compilation record with a few more artists on the same label.

Friday, August 30 New Shirts: Mudhoney has two new shirts for sale at shows. The first is yellow, and looks like a simplified version of the album color, with the logo, a few waves, and the guys on it. The second is dark blue and has the new Mudhoney logo in triplicate across the chest. The shirts are not yet available from Mudhoney's t-shirt company, Kung Fu Nation, though older designs are.

Monday, August 12 (Updated 8/25/02) New Monkeywrench Single: Bronx Cheer Recordings has released a split Monkeywrench/Immortal Lee County Killers 7" (BC 3,000,002). The Monkeywrench track is a rendition of the 13th Floor Elevators' Levitation (taken from the May, 2001 recording sessions at the Sweatbox in Austin) and the Immortal Lee County Killers cover R.L. Burnside's Goin' Down South. The cover features a 1908 photo of a Mr. Shakespeare Penn of Washington D.C. in a car that he built. The record is distributed in the UK by Cargo. The record can be ordered by sending $5.00 well concealed cash or an international money order (made out to J. Spence) to the following address. No mail orders will be fulfilled until late-September.

Bronx Cheer Recordings
P.O. Box 13
Glasgow
G12 8YT
Scotland
UK

Friday, August 9 bNew Album Autographed: Sub Pop has 50 (25 CDs and 25 LPs) autographed copies of Since We've Become Translucent that will be sent out to the first 50 people to purchase the album from Sub Pop's online store.

Monday, June 24 Steve Solo Record: From Johnny Sangster's website (www.nwlink.com/~sangster/):

Spent the week at Studio Litho recording for Steve Turner's latest effort, a solo album. The cast is Steve - ld. vocs and acoustic gtr (thru fender amp of course), Stone Gossard as executive producer and bassist, and Dan Peters on tiny drumset - Kick, Snare, HH, Cymbal and myself producing and playing various gtr's, keys and backing murmers. Floyd Reitsma is presiding over the control room mostly as I've been cajoled into playing so much.

Steve's been working on this stuff for about a half year now having only sung lead vocals occasionally in the past. In March he came to Egg and spent a day playing his songs live with acoustic and vocals and then a few again overdubbing the vocals onto the guitar tracks. A few of these takes turned out really good and might end up on the finished record but it was mainly a demo sort of day.

After listening and chatting and meeting and jamming the songs have turned into mostly a stripped down, folk rock sounding record. I could compare it to early electric era Dylan. Steve would probably say Towns Van Zandt. Not that I really care to compare it to anything but I can say that it sounds nothing like Mudhoney or Monkeywrench.

One of the biggest challenges, one that never was properly solved was trying to record a good footstomp. At Egg we found a small piece of plywood and mic'd it with an RE20, it was recorded together with a live gtr and vocal and turned out ok but kinda small. At Litho we had a few people stomp together on the wood floor which ended up more like a super boomy bass drum. Also kinda cool and was helped when I started banging two paperback books on the floor along with Steve and Stone's feet. I think it's all in the shoe but Steve's sticking with trying to find the right floor. Do you think we need a more expensive mic?

We recorded 14 songs in 5 days, ranging from the new wave "I'm 37" over the triphop "Instumental #1" to the early Faces-esque "Living through the Mistakes". There are some sad and lonely blues numbers and even a Sad and Lonely(s) cover "Idiot". Funny about the Sad and Lonely(s), there's a lyric that's been on the wall at Egg as long as I can remember for a song called "You're a pain". I never knew who it was by but always admired it's simple beauty - b

you're a pain, insult my brain,
i'm alone in my room
with a girl
you walk thru the door
what'd you do that for?

you're a pain insult my brain, etc...

Anyway it turns out to be a Sad and Lonely(s) song that Steve wrote for Ed Fatheringham to sing (it's about him). Also interesting sidenote, that record was produced by Dan Peters!

The Steve Turner project will continue through the summer and hopefully be out this fall to compete with Mudhoney's Since We've Become Translucent.

Monday, March 25 Monkeywrench on Video Compilation: The Ptolemaic Terrascope has released a compilation video of Terrastock 4, including "Levitation" from The Monkeywrench's 11/3/00 performance. The video is available in both NTSC and PAL formats. Ordering information is available on the Terrascope website.

Sunday, March 3 Tentative Release Date: According to the Sub Pop newsletter, the tentative release date for the new Mudhoney record is August 20th. Additionally, it says that the guys have done sessions at Egg Studios and Jupiter Studios.

Sunday, February 17 (Updated 2/19/02) Upcoming Records: The new Monkeywrench (ES1284) record will be released by Estrus on LP and CD on May 7. Two songs from the album will be available this Tuesday, February 19 as part of The Estrus Double Dynamite Sampler Volume 3 (ES1288D). Those songs are Black Plastic Tarp and Low on Air

2/19/02 Update: The new Monkeywrench album is not coming out May 7. From Mark:

Tim's arm is still really fucked up and I think he was pushing it just practicing to get the set together (for the New Year's Eve show). We will record some more at some point. We'll probably start working on that once bthe new Mudhoney album is done...We're aiming for a late-August/early-September release for the Mudhoney album.

Mudhoney might do another recording session, this time with John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Goodness, The Pinehurst Kids), in the near future.

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