News for Mudhoney

NEWS : MON, FEB 5, 2024 at 7:00 AM

Mudhoney’s Dan Peters Sits-In as Guest Drummer for Late Night with Seth Meyers’ 8G Band February 5-8

February 5th through 8th, catch legendary skinsman Dan Peters of famed rock outfit Mudhoney on live tele-tube and streaming beams sitting in with the 8G Band on Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC. 

Peters joins a long line of world-class drummers who have sat behind band leader/comedian Fred Armisen’s drum kit on Meyers’ NBC late-night show since 2015. Each week, the 8G Band welcomes a gifted player to join the band to play the show’s themes, compose original music for guest walk-ons and commercial breaks, and keep the overall energy of the studio audience elevated throughout the taping.

2023 was a banger year for the one and only Mudhoney, who released their mind-melting album Plastic Eternity on Sub Pop. They toured extensively throughout Australia & North America, and April 7th was declared Mudhoney Day in King County, WA. The official proclamation highlighted their contributions to the Seattle music scene and beyond, crediting them for “35 years of brilliant musical mayhem.”

Additionally, the band found themselves wreathed in year-end accolades on Louder Than War, Uproxx, and Aquarium Drunkard lists, this last of which described Plastic Eternity as, “Wild, spiraling psychedelia, sharp-toothed political commentary, potty humor, dogs—this 11th album from Mudhoney has it all. Dive into the third-eye opening ‘Almost Everything,’ with its unhinged squall, chuckle grimly to word-playing ‘Cry Me an Atmospheric River,’ or enjoy a full-on belly laugh to sardonic but meaning-it ‘Little Dogs.’ These punk grunge founding fathers aren’t done yet.”

Mudhoney is hard at work plotting some exciting news for 2024, so stay close, follow along, and set your DVRs for February 5th to watch Dan tear it up on late-night TV. 

Late Night With Seth Meyers airs weeknights on NBC at 12:35 AM EST/PST. Stream current and past episodes on Peacock.


Posted by Abbie Gobeli

NEWS : TUE, APR 4, 2023 at 7:00 AM

Watch Mudhoney’s Paws-itively Hair-raising New Video for “Little Dogs” From Plastic Eternity, out this Friday

On April 7th, Mudhoney will release their mind-melting new album Plastic Eternity, on CD/LP/CS/DSP via Sub Pop. And the paws-itively, hair-raising new video for their song “Little Dogs” is out today. Directed by Eleanor Petry, this pom-tastic new video features a regular who’s-who of Seattle’s most illustrious celebrity canines, including… Rory Russell, Coco Ho, Gary Oldman, Diane Keaton, Riley, Pickles, Yogi, and Minnie. You can watch this grrr-riffic video HERE


In due acknowledgment of Mudhoney’s 35th Anniversary in 2023, King County Executive, Dow Constantine has declared April 7th to be Mudhoney Day in King County, WA. This official proclamation highlights their contributions to the Seattle music scene and beyond, crediting them for “35 years of brilliant musical mayhem.”  


On April 6th (now officially known as Mudhoney Day Eve…), from 4-6pm, Mudhoney’s Mark Arm and Steve Turner will also take to the ones and twos, DJing a live set at Sub Pop on 7th (the label’s retail store at 2130 7th Ave.) in Seattle. This event will feature exclusive, new band merch, including a Mudhoney-branded flannel shirt (the “Flat-Out Flannel”), Autograph Series Reading Glasses, a Plastic Eternity T-shirt, a Plastic Eternity snapback hat, and a new set of Mudhoney album cover postcards. Wine aficionados (or “Winos”) can grab a bottle of the Schloss Mudhoney Riesling, a collaboration with Washington winery, Sleight of Hand, that will also be available for purchase in Seattle at the Sub Pop Airport Store, Sleight of Hand tasting room, and Easy Street Records. Attendees will also be able to purchase the new album, Plastic Eternity, on all available physical formats – one day early – at the event!

Plus! Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion, Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner’s new book chronicling the birth and evolution of Mudhoney and the Seattle grunge scene, is available for pre-order now and will be out June 13, 2023!

Mudhoney’s previously announced international tour dates in support of Plastic Eternity are below. Tickets for these shows are on sale now.

Australia 2023
Sun. Apr. 16 - Brisbane, AU - The Zoo
Thu. Apr. 20 - Marrickville, AU - Factory Theatre
Fri. Apr. 21 - Belford, AU - Gumball Festival 
Sat. Apr. 22 - Wollongong, AU - AOW Uni Bar
Sun. Apr. 23 - Canberra, AU - ANU Kambri
Thu. Apr. 27 - Melbourne, AU - Corner Hotel
Fri. Apr. 28 - Castlemaine, AU - Theatre Royal
Sat. Apr. 29 - Torquay, AU - Torquay Hotel
Sun. Apr. 30 - Melbourne, AU - Cherry Bar
Wed. May 03 - Adelaide, AU - Lion Arts Factory
Thu. May 04 - Perth, AU - The Rosemount
Fri. May 05 - Margaret River, AU  - The River
 
North America
Fri. Oct.13 - Spokane, WA - Lucky You Lounge
Sat. Oct. 14 - Missoula, MT - Zootown Arts Community Center
Sun. Oct. 15 - Billings, MT - The Pub Station TapRoom                  
Wed. Oct. 18 - Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club
Thu. Oct. 19 - Milwaukee, WI - X-Ray Arcade
Fri. Oct. 20 - Chicago, IL - Avondale Music Hall
Sat. Oct. 21- Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme
Sun. Oct. 22 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag          
Mon. Oct. 24 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
Tue. Oct. 25 - Rochester, NY - Photo City Music Hall
Wed. Oct. 26 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
Thu. Oct. 27 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
Fri. Oct. 28 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
Sat. Oct. 29 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts             
Tue. Oct. 31 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
Wed. Nov. 01 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
Thu. Nov. 02 - Nashville, TN - The Basement East              
Sat. Nov. 04 - Dallas, TX - Sundown at Granada
Sun. Nov. 05 - Austin, TX - Antone’s Nightclub        
Thu. Nov. 09 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
Fri. Nov. 10 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
Sat. Nov.11 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
Sun. Nov. 12 - San Diego, CA - Casbah      
Tues. Nov. 14 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
Wed. Nov. 15 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
Fri. Nov. 17 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
Sat. Nov. 18 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile Showroom (21+)
Sun. Nov. 19 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile Showroom (AA)

 
Plastic Eternity is available for preorder on CD/LP/CS/DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com, and select independent retailers in North America will receive the limited Loser Edition on “shiny gray matter” vinyl. In the UK, and in Europe the Loser Edition will be available on silver vinyl (both editions available while supplies last). There is also a new T-shirt design available.


Mudhoney 

Plastic Eternity
 
Tracklisting:
1. Souvenir of My Trip
2. Almost Everything
3. Cascades of Crap
4. Flush the Fascists
5. Move Under
6. Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell
7. Here Comes the Flood
8. Human Stock Capital
9. Tom Herman’s Hermits
10. One or Two
11. Cry Me an Atmospheric River
12. Plasticity
13. Little Dogs 


Posted by Abbie Gobeli

NEWS : WED, MAR 1, 2023 at 7:00 AM

Listen to Mudhoney’s “Move Under,” a New Ripper From Plastic Eternity

On April 7th, Mudhoney will release their mind-melting new album Plastic Eternity, on CD/LP/CS/DSP via Sub Pop. Today you can hear the latest blinding flipper “Move Under,” from this tropically hot musical combo, by clicking HERE.  This new single follows the swinging Escalator vibes of “Almost Everything,” another Plastic Eternity highlight released last month. 
 
Mudhoney has confirmed a 29-date North American run in October and November. These newly announced shows begin on Friday, October 13th in Spokane, WA, with additional plays in Saint Paul, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles, closing the run with 2 hometown shows on November 18th and 19th in Seattle, WA at The Crocodile. These dates follow the band’s previously announced Australian tour, in April and May. See below for a full list of shows. 

Australia
Sun. Apr. 16 - Brisbane, AU - The Zoo
Thu. Apr. 20 - Marrickville, AU - Factory Theatre
Fri. Apr. 21 - Belford, AU - Gumball Festival 
Sat. Apr. 22 - Wollongong, AU - AOW Uni Bar
Sun. Apr. 23 - Canberra, AU - ANU Kambri
Thu. Apr. 27 - Melbourne, AU - Corner Hotel
Fri. Apr. 28 - Castlemaine, AU - Theatre Royal
Sat. Apr. 29 - Torquay, AU - Torquay Hotel
Sun. Apr. 30 - Melbourne, AU - Cherry Bar
Wed. May 03 - Adelaide, AU - Lion Arts Factory
Thu. May 04 - Perth, AU - The Rosemount
Fri. May 05 - Margaret River, AU  - The River
 
North America
Fri. Oct.13 - Spokane, WA - Lucky You Lounge
Sat. Oct. 14 - Missoula, MT - Zootown Arts Community Center
Sun. Oct. 15 - Billings, MT - The Pub Station TapRoom                  
Wed. Oct. 18 - Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club
Thu. Oct. 19 - Milwaukee, WI - X-Ray Arcade
Fri. Oct. 20 - Chicago, IL - Avondale Music Hall
Sat. Oct. 21- Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme
Sun. Oct. 22 - Detroit, MI - Magic Bag          
Mon. Oct. 24 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
Tue. Oct. 25 - Rochester, NY - Photo City Music Hall
Wed. Oct. 26 - Boston, MA - Brighton Music Hall
Thu. Oct. 27 - Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom
Fri. Oct. 28 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
Sat. Oct. 29 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts             
Tue. Oct. 31 - Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall
Wed. Nov. 01 - Atlanta, GA - The Earl
Thu. Nov. 02 - Nashville, TN - The Basement East 
Fri. Nov. 03. Memphis, TN- Hi Tone
Sat. Nov. 04 - Dallas, TX - Sundown at Granada
Sun. Nov. 05 - Austin, TX - Antone’s Nightclub        
Thu. Nov. 09 - Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad
Fri. Nov. 10 - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
Sat. Nov.11 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
Sun. Nov. 12 - San Diego, CA - Casbah      
Tues. Nov. 14 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom
Wed. Nov. 15 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall
Fri. Nov. 17 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
Sat. Nov. 18 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile Showroom (21+)
Sun. Nov. 19 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile Showroom (AA)

 
Plastic Eternity is now available for preorder on CD/LP/CS/DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com, and select independent retailers in North America will receive the limited Loser Edition on “shiny gray matter” vinyl. In the UK, and in Europe the Loser Edition will be available on silver vinyl (both editions available while supplies last). There will also be a new T-shirt design available.



Mudhoney
Plastic Eternity
 
Tracklisting:
1. Souvenir of My Trip
2. Almost Everything
3. Cascades of Crap
4. Flush the Fascists
5. Move Under
6. Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell
7. Here Comes the Flood
8. Human Stock Capital
9. Tom Herman’s Hermits
10. One or Two
11. Cry Me an Atmospheric River
12. Plasticity
13. Little Dogs


Posted by Abbie Gobeli

NEWS : TUE, JAN 24, 2023 at 7:00 AM

Mudhoney’s Plastic Eternity, The Group’s New Album, Will Be Available April 7th, 2023 Worldwide

On April 7th, 2023 the inimitable, enduring, one and only Mudhoney (vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters), will release their latest and greatest, Plastic Eternity, on Sub Pop. 2023 is the 35th anniversary of both Mudhoney and Sub Pop, and an incredible new album by the label’s flagship band is the perfect way to mark the occasion (well, that, and with an update on the progress of the sewage tunnel boring machine bearing the band’s name…).  Recorded over nine days at Crackle & Pop! in Seattle, WA with longtime producer Johnny Sangster, Plastic Eternity is a heady run through all the proto-genres of guitar rock with a keen eye on the inanities of the world in the 2020s.
 
Mudhoney has shared an official video for Plastic Eternity’s first offering “Almost Everything.” Frontman Mark Arm says the song “was originally known as ‘Gopal.’ It had been sitting in the recording device at our practice space for years and we avoided erasing it because we always loved its swinging Escalator groove.” Directed by Arturo Baston, the visual for “Almost Everything” is a surreal and interdimensional journey of a character that never stops transforming. You may even transcend the limits of space, time and form yourself while watching this video! WATCH NOW.

Mudhoney has scheduled a 14-date, Australian tour beginning Friday, April 14th and ending Friday, May 5th, 2023. The late-spring spring run will include shows in Byron Bay, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, and more. Additional dates for non-Oceania fans and followers to be announced in the coming months. Please find a current list of dates below.

Fri. Apr. 14 - Coolangatta, AU - Coolangatta Hotel
Sat. Apr. 15 - Byron Bay, AU - The Northern
Sun. Apr. 16 - Brisbane, AU - The Zoo
Thu. Apr. 20 - Marrickville, AU - Factory Theatre
Fri. Apr. 21 - Belford, AU - Gumball Festival
Sat. Apr. 22 - Wollongong, AU - AOW Uni Bar
Sun. Apr. 23 - Canberra, AU - ANU Kambri
Thu. Apr. 27 - Melbourne, AU - Corner Hotel
Fri. Apr. 28 - Castlemaine, AU - Theatre Royal
Sat. Apr. 29 - Torquay, AU - Torquay Hotel
Sun. Apr. 30 - Melbourne, AU - Cherry Bar
Wed. May 03 - Adelaide, AU - Lion Arts Factory
Thu. May 04 - Perth, AU - The Rosemount
Fri. May 05 - Margaret River, AU  - The River
 
Plastic Eternity is now available for preorder on CD/LP/CS/DSPs from Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.com, and select independent retailers in North America will receive the limited Loser Edition on “shiny gray matter” vinyl. In the UK, and in Europe the Loser Edition will be available on silver vinyl (both editions available while supplies last). There will also be a new T-shirt design available.


Even More On Mudhoney’s Plastic Eternity:
The world is filling up with trash. Humanity remains addicted to pollution despite the planet getting hotter by the minute. People are downing horse dewormer because some goober on television told them it cured COVID. Tom Herman of pioneering avant garage band Pere Ubu still doesn’t have his own Wikipedia article. The apocalypse, it seems, is stupider than anyone could’ve predicted.
 
Fortunately, the absurdities of modern life have always been prime subject matter for Seattle-based band Mudhoney. The foursome take aim at all of them with barbed humor and muck-encrusted riffs on Plastic Eternity, their 11th studio album.
 
Mudhoney (vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters) remain the ur underground group, their gnarly primordial punk stew and Arm’s sharply funny lyrics as potent a combination as they’ve been since the band’s formation in the late 1980s. From taking on climate change from the perspective of the climate if the climate tried to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix (“Cry Me An Atmospheric River”) to a driving rock and roll song about taking drugs meant for livestock (“Here Comes the Flood”) to a classic punk attack on treating humans like livestock (“Human Stock Capital”), Plastic Eternity is a heady run through all the proto-genres of guitar rock with a keen eye on the inanities of the world in the 2020’s.
 
The recording of Plastic Eternity delivered several firsts for the band. With Maddison planning on moving his family to Australia, Mudhoney was forced to work on a deadline, booking nine days at Crackle & Pop! in Seattle with longtime producer Johnny Sangster. Since the pandemic had made it impossible for them to convene in their practice space for nearly a year and a half, this meant they were going in to make a record with an assortment of half-forgotten riffs and nascent ideas rather than fully-fledged, well-rehearsed songs.
 
This was unusual for a band used to writing songs by “standing in a room and looking at each other and playing,” says Arm. “We had the time and space to think about things as we were doing them, and to make a kind of course correction—to use a fucking terrible cliche.” They built “Flush the Fascists” around a looping synth line, broke out a harmonizer on two tracks, added a vocoder to “Plasticity,” and even created a protest song out of a spontaneous jam on “Move Under,” the chorus of which Arm calls “something the Runaways might have come up with if they were us.”  “Undermine the foundations/ Of the lies that they repeat,” implores Arm on the chorus. “You gotta move under/ Until it all comes down.”
 
Plastic Eternity also marks the first time Mudhoney has given writing credit to anyone outside the band, thanks to Sangster, whom Arm calls “a brilliant musician and way more adept at musical theory than any of us,” stepping in at times to offer advice on where the songs could go.
 
Also unusual for Mudhoney: Plastic Eternity contains two genuine love songs. The first is for the aforementioned Tom Herman, one Arm’s favorite guitarists and the protagonist of “Tom Herman’s Hermits.” Then there’s closing track “Little Dogs,” a paean to the simple joys of hanging out with tiny canines, and one in particular: Arm’s Pomeranian, Russell, whom he couldn’t bear to give up after fostering him, sure that any other owner wouldn’t allow the little fellow to “let his freak flag fly.” No irony here—just gratitude to a little pal in dark times.
 
So it seems, despite its mordant delivery and crusty exterior, Plastic Eternity is not just a rebuke to the constant attacks on our intelligence and our planet—it’s an ode to the connections we make with other living beings. What is the persistence of Mudhoney but a testament to that? When asked why they continue making records nearly four decades after forming, Arm’s answer is simple.
 
“We like each other and we like being in a band together,” says Arm. “Some people have poker night or whatever the fuck, and they have the excuse to get together with their friends. For us, this [band] is that. This is what we do.”


Mudhoney
Plastic Eternity
 
Tracklisting:
1. Souvenir of My Trip
2. Almost Everything
3. Cascades of Crap
4. Flush the Fascists
5. Move Under
6. Severed Dreams in the Sleeper Cell
7. Here Comes the Flood
8. Human Stock Capital
9. Tom Herman’s Hermits
10. One or Two
11. Cry Me an Atmospheric River
12. Plasticity
13. Little Dogs


Posted by Abbie Gobeli

NEWS : FRI, JUL 23, 2021 at 7:00 AM

The 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Mudhoney’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is out now worldwide from Sub Pop

Today, Sub Pop will release the remastered and altogether deluxe 30th-anniversary edition of Mudhoney’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudgethe Seattle group’s classic second full-length album. Originally released 30 years ago TO THE DAY, this expanded version includes the remastered original album in its entirety, as well as a 15-track bonus LP (or CD, your choice!) of additional material, with 7 previously unreleased songs The album also includes liner notes from Mudhoney biographer (Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury from Seattle) and MOJO journalist Keith Cameron, as well as new cover art, archival band photos, and a full-color fold-out poster. The first run of LPs will be on colored vinyl.
 
Mudhoney has announced a 28-date UK & EU tour starting on September 7th, 2022 in Manchester, UK with shows in Bristol, London, Barcelona, Paris, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam, ending on Oct. 9th in Nijmegen, NL. See below for a full list of shows. 
 
UK & EU Tour Dates Fall 2022:
Wed. Sep. 07 - Manchester, UK - HMV- Ritz
Thu. Sep. 08 - Glasgow, UK - SWG3
Fri.  Sep. 09 - Nottingham, UK - Nottingham Rock City
Sat. Sep. 10 - London, UK - Electric Ballroom
Sun. Sep. 11 - Bristol, UK - O2 Academy Bristol
Mon. Sep. 12 - Brighton, UK  Concorde 2
Thu. Sep. 15 -  Barcelona, ES - Razmatazz 2
Fri. Sep. 16 - Benidorm, ES - Visor Festival
Sat. Sep. 17 - Seville, ES - Alhambra Monkey Day
Sun. Sep. 18 - Madrid , ES - Mon Live              
Tue. Sep. 20 - NIMES, FR - La Paloma
Wed. Sep. 21 - Clermont Ferrand, Fr - La Coopérative de Mai
Thu. Sep. 22 - Bordeaux, FR - Rock School Barbey
Fri. Sep. 23 - Joué-lès-Tours, FR - Le Temps Machine
Sat. Sep. 24 - Besançon, FR - Festival Détonation
Sun. Sep. 25 - Paris, FR - La Maroquinerie
Tue. Sep. 27 - Düsseldorf, DE - Zakk
Wed. Sep. 28 - Münster, DE - Gleis 22
Thu. Sep. 29 - Copenhagen, DK - Vega Club
Fri. Sep. 30 - Berlin, DE - Hole44
Sat. Oct. 01 - Amsterdam, NL - Paradiso Noord - Tolhuistuin
Sun. Oct. 02 - Leipzig, DE - UT Connewitz
Tue. Oct. 04 - Prague, CZ - Lucerna Music Bar
Wed. Oct. 05 - Ebensee, AT - Kino Ebensee
Thu. Oct. 06 - Bologna, IT - TPO - Teatro Polivalente Occupato
Fri. Oct. 07 - Fribourg, CH- Fri-Son
Sat. Oct. 08 - Leuven, BE - Het Depot
Sun. Oct. 09 0 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje


Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition is available now through Sub Pop. LP purchases from megamart.subpop.comselect independent retailers in North America the UK, and Europe will receive the first pressing of this release on light blue (LP1) and red (LP 2) vinyl.


Mudhoney
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge:
30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

 
Tracklisting:
1. Generation Genocide
2. Let It Slide
3. Good Enough
4. Something So Clear
5. Thorn
6. Into the Drink
7. Broken Hands
8. Who You Drivin’ Now?
9. Move Out
10. Shoot the Moon
11. Fuzzgun ‘91
12. Pokin’ Around
13. Don’t Fade IV
14. Check-Out Time
15. March to Fuzz
16. Ounce of Deception
17. Paperback Life (alternate version)
18. Fuzzbuster
19. Bushpusher Man
20. Flowers for Industry
21. Thorn (1st attempt)
22. Overblown
23. March From Fuzz
24. You’re Gone
25. Something So Clear (24-track demo)
26. Bushpusher Man (24-track demo)
27. Pokin’ Around (24-track demo)
28. Check-Out Time (24-track demo)
29. Generation Genocide (24-track demo)


Posted by Abbie Gobeli

NEWS : TUE, MAY 25, 2021 at 7:00 AM

The 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Mudhoney’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge is out July 23 + the “new” video for “Ounce of Deception” is out today

On July 23rd, 2021, Sub Pop will release the remastered 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of Mudhoney’s Every Good Boy Deserves Fudgethe Seattle group’s classic second full-length album. This expanded release will include the original album in its entirety as well as a 15-track bonus LP and CD of additional material, with 7 previously unreleased songs. The album also includes liner notes from Mudhoney biographer (Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury from Seattle) and MOJO journalist Keith Cameron, as well as new cover art, archival band photos, and a full-color fold-out poster. The first run of LP’s will be on colored vinyl.


 
In celebration of this upcoming, momentous release, please enjoy the new video for “Ounce of Deception”! This track was previously released as the b-side to the 1991 “Let it Slide” 7”, and was also included on the 52-track compilation of Mudhoney smash hits and rarities, March to Fuzz (orig released in 2000 and now only available on the increasingly unpopular CD format). The video was directed by Duncan Sharp, and features wonderfully entertaining, vintage footage of the group performing live. 


Preorders for Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition are available now through Sub Pop. LP preorders from megamart.subpop.comselect independent retailers in North America the UK, and Europe will receive the first pressing of this release on light blue (LP1) and red (LP 2) vinyl.
 
Mudhoney will also release a limited-edition split 7” single with Meat Puppets for Record Store Day 2021. This split single features two exclusive cover songs: “Warning,” performed by Mudhoney and originally by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (and famously covered by Black Sabbath); and “One of These Days,” performed by Meat Puppets, originally written by Earl Montgomery and first popularized by George Jones. This release is a Record Store Day 2021 exclusive, and it is limited to 2,500 copies.

More about Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition:
“When in doubt, fudge it.”
On September 19, 1990, perhaps with an eye on the daily news reports of US forces massing in Saudi Arabia in preparation for an assault on Iraq, Mark Arm recorded a version of Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War,” at Reciprocal Recording studio in Seattle. Mudhoney fans might have been surprised to learn that the voice of such mindblown anthems to oblivion as “If I Think” and “In ‘n’ Out of Grace,” was now taking on the definitive antiwar song. The times were indeed a-changin’ – both for the world, and for Mudhoney.
           
During the same Reciprocal session with engineer Jack Endino, some further work was done on a recording from earlier that same year. On May 19, Mudhoney had taped five songs at Music Source, a large studio in Seattle’s Capitol Hill district. Endino was behind the desk then – as he had been for 1988’s catalytic debut double-A side “Touch Me I’m Sick”/”Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More,” the Superfuzz Bigmuff mini-album and 1989’s self-titled LP – and this session was notionally the start of the next Mudhoney album. But the fact that nothing had been done with these recordings after four months told its own story. 
           
“We decided we didn’t much care for it,” Steve Turner says today. “It didn’t sound right to me, it sounded a little too fancy, too clean. It didn’t have the dirt.”
           
Mudhoney hadn’t gotten where they were by sounding a little too fancy. “Touch Me I’m Sick” made a virtue of its tactile grubbiness – and in so doing, ignited a generation aesthetically jaded by pop culture always equating sophistication with progress. Yet now Mudhoney were apparently acquiescing to the same principle. During the few months which separated “Touch Me”/”Sweet Young Thing” from Superfuzz Bigmuff, Reciprocal had upgraded from 8-track recording to 16, and it was on this higher spec machine that Mudhoney had recorded both their mini-album and debut long-player. Granted, in the context of songs like “Here Comes Sickness” and “Flat Out Fucked,” ‘sophistication’ was a relative term. But as Mark Arm subsequently observed: “There was a grittiness to that very first single that never quite got recaptured.”
 
The Music Source session utilised 24 tracks, distancing Mudhoney even further from their raw essence. Unhappy with the recordings, Steve Turner instigated a change of direction. He noted that Thrillsphere, the cool new album by Tacoma WA garage rockers Girl Trouble, had been released by PopLlama, a record label run by Conrad Uno out of his house in Seattle’s U-District. In the basement of that same house, Uno had a recording studio, named Egg after the cartons pasted on the walls in an optimistic attempt at sound-proofing, which also boasted a ’60s vintage 8-track Spectra Sonics recording console, originally built for Stax in Memphis. 
           
In the two-plus years since Mudhoney’s official inception on January 1, 1988, Turner had become worn down by the routine of what increasingly felt like a career as a professional musician – something he’d never aspired to. One benefit of the band’s frequent visits to the UK in 1989/90, however, had been the ready availability of cheap original era punk singles, which Turner brought home by the box-load. He proposed a twin-pronged palate-cleansing operation.
          
“My idea was, why don’t we go check out Egg Studios, go in there for a day and record a bunch of punk covers, and see what it sounds like. I called Conrad, and said, ‘This is Steve from Mudhoney. We want to come in there and record with you.’ He started laughing, and just said, ‘Why?!’ I figured that bode well for Conrad! (read more at Sub Pop).


Mudhoney
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge:
30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

 
Tracklisting:
1. Generation Genocide
2. Let It Slide
3. Good Enough
4. Something So Clear
5. Thorn
6. Into the Drink
7. Broken Hands
8. Who You Drivin’ Now?
9. Move Out
10. Shoot the Moon
11. Fuzzgun ‘91
12. Pokin’ Around
13. Don’t Fade IV
14. Check-Out Time
15. March to Fuzz
16. Ounce of Deception
17. Paperback Life (alternate version)
18. Fuzzbuster
19. Bushpusher Man
20. Flowers for Industry
21. Thorn (1st attempt)
22. Overblown
23. March From Fuzz
24. You’re Gone
25. Something So Clear (24-track demo)
26. Bushpusher Man (24-track demo)
27. Pokin’ Around (24-track demo)
28. Check-Out Time (24-track demo)
29. Generation Genocide (24-track demo)


Posted by Abbie Gobeli