Currently comprised of founding members Mark Arm (vocals, rhythm guitar), Steve Turner (lead guitar) and Guy Maddison (bass), along with Dan Peters (drums), who joined the band in 1999, the Seattle, WA-based alt rock/grunge rock band Mudhoney officially formed back in 1988 — although the band can trace its origins to the breakup of Green River, a proto-grunge band that at one point featured Alex Vincent (drums), Jeff Ament (bass), Steve Turner, and Stone Gossard (guitar). After releasing two EPs, and several lineup changes, Green River eventually split up with Bruce Fairweather, Gossard and Ament eventually joining Mother Love Bone. Now, if you know your grunge history, you’d know that after Mother Love Bone’s Andrew Wood died from an overdose, Gossard and Ament went on to form Pearl Jam while Arm and Turner reunited to form Mudhoney, and the rest as they say is history — right?
Mudhoney’s earliest releases through Sub Pop Records — namely “Touch Me I’m Sick” and the Superfuzz Bigmuff EP wound up becoming massively influential with the band being credited as being the godfathers of Seattle’s grunge rock sound, a sound that we all know is generally centered around scuzzy, distortion pedal heavy power chords. But despite their towering influence on alt rock, the band has never really seen much commercial success — although Nirvana covered Mudhoney during their legendary Unplugged, filmed and recorded a few weeks before Kurt Cobain’s suicide.
Slated for a September 28, 2018 through their longtime label home, the beloved Pacific Northwest-based grunge legends tenth full-length album Digital Garbage is reportedly, one of the band’s most sociopolitically incisive and blistering albums they’ve recorded; in fact, Digital Garbage‘s first single “Paranoid Core” captures the distrust of experts and facts, the rampant fear-mongering and emotional exploitation and the very primal, lizard-brained instinctual response that rules our current zeitgeist. And its all centered around boozy, old school punk rock guitar chords, a propulsive back beat and bass line. Western civilization and American democracy collapsing before our very eyes but goddamn it, there’s at least rock ‘n’ roll to save our souls for a little bit. “Kill Yourself Live,” the latest single is a searing indictment of our vapid and insipid reality TV-show and social media-based culture, suggesting that people could literally kill themselves live on a TV show or on Instagram Live — and it would likely be highly rated or get a shit ton of likes on the ‘gram baby. Considering that the President of the United States is a reality TV Internet troll, anything — holy shit, anything is fucking possible. Sonically speaking, the single continues in a similar vein as its predecessor — but manages to nod at DEVO and 60s psych rock simultaneously for a subtle mind trip.
The members of Mudhoney will be embarking on a lengthy world tour to support Digital Garbage that will include an October 13, 2018 stop at Warsaw with Pissed Jeans and Art Gray Noizz Quintet that should be a ripper.
Check out the tour dates below.
Sep. 15 – Vancouver, Canada – Rickshaw Theater (Westward Music Festival)
Sep. 28 – Portland, OR – Dante’s @
Sep. 29 – Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre %
Oct. 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw ^
Nov. 11 – Utrecht, NL – Le Guess Who Festival
Nov. 12 – Groningen, NL – Vera *
Nov. 13 – Berlin, DE- Festaal Kreuzberg &
Nov. 14 – Hamburg, DE – Fabrik &
Nov. 15 – Koln, DE – Gebaude 9 &
Nov. 16 – Luzern, CH – Schuur &
Nov. 17 – Vevey, CH – Rocking Chair &
Nov. 19 – Frankfurt, DE – Zoom Club &
Nov. 20 – Munchen, DE – Strom &
Nov. 21 – Bologna, IT – Locomotiv &
Nov. 22 – Roma, IT – Largo (IT) &
Nov. 23 – Milan, IT – Santeria Social Club &
Nov. 24 – Zagreb, HR – Mochvara &
Nov. 25 – Vienna , AT – Arena Big Hall *
Nov. 27 – Paris, FR – Le Trabendo &
Nov. 28 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2 #
Nov. 29 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom #
Nov. 30 – Leeds, UK – Leeds Beckett University !
Dec. 1St – Glasgow, UK – Lukes Church !
@ The Scientists and Eat Skull
% The Scientists and Tom Price Desert Classic
^ Pissed Jeans and Art Gray Noizz Quintet
* w/Zeke and Please the Trees
& Please the Trees
# Masonics and Thee Hypnotics
! Wildebeests and Thee Hypnotics
