Screaming Trees are releasing the Wrong Turn to Jahannam: Live from Egg Studio 1991 LP (limited to 2,500 copies, on white-and-yellow "fried egg" colored vinyl) as part of Record Store Day on November 24. Dan plays drums on the record, which was recorded in 1991 when he was in the band. Here's what Dan says about it: We went into Egg to record some B-sides for their 'Something About Today' single. A couple covers - one by the Saints and one by Jethro Tull. Then we just rolled tape and ran through 14 songs that I knew from touring. 10 made the record. It's pretty killer. Totally ripping yo! This is a "Record Store Day first" release, so it'll be available by other means later. Here's the promotional copy for it: In early 1991 Screaming Trees were in a shambles. Mark Pickerel had left the band a year earlier and Van was off playing bass for Dinosaur Jr. Mark Lanegan and Gary Lee Conner were set to continue with Donna Dresch on bass and a friend of hers on drums. Uncle Anesthesia, the band's first major label album, on Epic, had just been released. While it seemed that working with the new band members might work, Gary Lee was despondent at the prospect of again playing in the band without his brother as Van had already quit and come back once in 1988. He came up with a plan to ask his brother to return to the Trees if he could get Van's good friend Dan Peters, who was on a partial hiatus from Mudhoney, to play drums with the band. It worked, Van flew home and the band started rehearsals and soon was touring for the new Epic album.
Another Record Store Day Release |
The Spokane venue has changed, on the Tour page. |
Dan's Tripwires are playing Slim's Last Chance in Seattle on September 29, supported by the Cheap Cassettes and the Fucking Eagles. |
You can get the EU/UK versions of the color vinyl represses of Superfuzz Bigmuff and "Touch Me I'm Sick" at Subpop's new EU/UK store. |
Steve is a guest on the Too Much Effing Perspective podcast [Apple Podcasts link]. |
Steve is a guest on the KEXP Sound & Vision podcast [Apple Podcasts link]. |
Sub Pop is repressing Superfuzz Bigmuff and Touch Me I'm Sick on vinyl, and they'll be released on October 6. If you haven't heard these songs before, you're in for a treat. They both come in colored Loser editions, in both US and EU versions. The US Touch Me I'm Sick is on yellow-brown(?), the EU Touch Me I'm Sick is on orange(?), and both verions of Superfuzz Bigmuff are on yellow(?). Purchase links from Sub Pop: |
Steve will play, do a book reading, and do a Q&A and talk with Thomas Paul, at the Record Exchange in Boise, ID, on August 17. (Thanks to John K.) |
Steve appears on the Life Elsewhere podcast [Apple Podcasts link]. |
Added the setlist and notes for Steve's performance yesterday to the Tourbook. |
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Steve appears on the Appetite for Distortion podcast [Apple Podcasts link]. |
No doubt due to popular demand, Jackpot Records is reissuing Five Dollar Bob's Mock Cooter Stew on vinyl. There's 500 copies on "tiger eye" color vinyl, and the rest are on dark red vinyl. There was probably one original pressing order of this on vinyl in 1993, and none since. |
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Steve is on The James McMahon Music Podcast [Apple Podcasts link]. |
There are 40 copies of the Australian tour 45 available at mudhoney.org. The songs are 'Light Your Way' and 'Get On My Cloud' (both from the Plastic Eternity sessions). They should eventually appear on a forthcoming EP of the songs from those sessions that didn't make the album (like with the Morning in America EP from the Digital Garbage sessions), but there's no release date for that, or guarantee it'll actually happen. |
Steve will do a reading and signing at:
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Other Interview |
Steve's book, Mud Ride (out now), is available on audiobook, with Steve reading at least part of it. He's appearing in Seattle at Elliott Bay Books tonight and Third Place Books tomorrow.
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Steve's book, Mud Ride is out today! At Amazon and all your finer independent retailers.
Interview |
Steve's co-author - Adem Tepedelen - on his new memoir, Mud Ride, has an interview with the Victoria Times Colonist. |
Dan's Tripwires will release two new albums through FOLC Records on July 7 - Do it Some More and Are Knife, Fork, Spoon & Plate In Good Party Tape. They also have a record relase show that same day - July 7 - at Slim's Last Chance in Seattle, supported by The Tom Price Desert Classic and Scott and the Hottheads.
Article I was actually recording some random music with Stone [Gossard; Green River, Pearl Jam] and Regan Hagar [Malfunkshun]. These friendships carry on for sure. I see Stone quite often. We'd love to go out on the road with them again at some point.(Thanks to John K.)
Steve Book Event |
Signed copies of Steve's book are available from omnibuspress.com. It's out June 8 in the UK, June 12 in the US |
Steve is playing solo this Satuday (June 3, 11am) in Boise, ID, at the Alchemist Cafe (3130 E State St, Eagle, ID). |
Dan's Tripwires are releasing two albums this summer - Do It Some More and Are Knife, Fork Spoon & Plate in: Good Party Tape. The latter is a cover album of party songs. |
Melvins have released The Devil You Knew, The Devil You Know on Amphetamine Reptile Records (AmRep 149). The album has six songs recorded with Matt in 1986. Those six songs were originally released on Melvins' first 45, on C/Z Records. It's available on CD, silk-screened art vinyl, and "mass produced" vinyl. |
Added the rest of the Australian tour to the Tourbook.
Side Show |
Sub Pop is collaborating with the Kimpton Palladian Hotel and its Pennyroyal bar. Mudhoney-inspired items will be offered for a few months: Honey Prosciutto Toast with chili-onion jam, honey, brie cheese and sourdough; and MudHoney Pie Tart with chocolate pudding, Oreo crumble, fudge, honey whipped cream, and honeycomb. |
Steve was interviewed on the Sunglasses After Dark radio show on PBS 106.7 FM Melbourne. The interview originally aired April 20, and is now posted. |
Merch |
Mark is on the It's Real with Jordan and Demi podcast [Apple Podcasts link]. This is perhaps not the typical media outlet that covers Mudhoney.
Tourbook Update |
On their Australian tour, Mudhoney will be selling a 45 that has the songs 'Light Your Way' and 'Get on Your Cloud.' It's limited to 400 copies. You can get it at the shows, from tym-records.com (soon), or from Sub Pop (less soon). It's released on Tym Records (TYM065). Both songs were recorded during sessions for Plastic Eternity.
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Tangential News |
Added the opening act for 11/25/89 Edinburgh to the Tourbook. (Thanks to Tim A.) |
Mark discusses each song on Plastic Eternity with Flood Magazine.
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Tacoma, WA is added to the October U.S. tour, on the Tour page.
Interviews |
It's available at all your finer record stores. |
There's a video for 'Little Dogs,' off the new album Plastic Eternity, out this Friday, April 7: youtube.com. |
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Mark has interviews with beat.com.au and smh.com.au. |
Steve has three more events in Seattle for his book Mud Ride:
Another Book |
Pre-orders at ellittbaybook.com and thirdplacebooks.com get signed copies. Pre-orders at barnesandnoble.com are entered into a sweepstakes. The sweepstakes winner gets a signed Plastic Eternity LP, a poster from the 7/15/07 Torino IT show, a custom Jeff Ament [Green River] guitar pick that Steve used, and three Mudhoney stickers. |
Guy has an interview with mandurahmail.com.au. |
Mark has an interview with bigtakeover.com. |
Another song from the new album Plastic Eternity - 'Move Under' - is available on youtube.com. Details about the album are below.
New Tour |
Steve is appearing at the Rabbit Box Theater (94 Pike St) in Seattle on March 10. 7.13 Presents: Attack of the Book People ~ Happy Hour 4pm -6pm Hosted by Jonathan Evison with special guest, Steve Turner of Mudhoney.It's also listed a running from 4pm to midnight with other people appearing, so your call on when Steve is doing his thing. (Thanks to Toby W.) |
Steve has written a book! His memoir, Mud Ride: A Messy Trip Through the Grunge Explosion will be released on June 13 by Chronicle Prism. It's 304 pages, it has photos, etc. He co-wrote it with Adam Tepedelen, and you can get it at all the finest book sellers. It's released by Omnibus in the UK, where Rough Trade has signed copies available for pre-order at roughtrade.com. You can see a short preview at amazon.com. Before the book comes out, Steve is appearing at Hex Induction Records & Books in Seattle at 6:30pm on March 11 for reading and discussion along with author Matt Goody (a book about Flying Nun Records) and moderated by Dave Segal. (Thanks to Joel S.) |
Guy and Martin Bland (The Monkeywrench, Bloodloss) recorded a nine-song album last year. Guy plays synth and Martin plays drums. Mark sings on two songs (one in French). Annabella Kirby, of Moon-spinners and Lushy, sings on others. Vinyl should be released this year. A song - X-Ray Girl - is available on youtube.com. (Thanks to John K.) |
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.There's a video for "Almost Everything." The vinyl is available on four colors - black, "shiny gray matter" (US Loser edition), silver (Euro Loser edition), and white (Euro web store). |
Mark is one of many, many singers on this song from Tim Kerr's [The Monkeywrench] new band, Up Around The Sun: bandcamp.com. Mark sings/speaks the opening line. It's now available on various colors of vinyl, and download. (Thanks to Zach J. and John K.) |
35 years in, baby! And that's somehow 25 years of this website. Thank you for emailing information and sharing with other fans. 2023 already has a new Mudhoney album (details coming this month) and Australian tour in store. An American tour should be announced eventually. See you in the pit! |
Bang! Records has released Bloodloss's In-a-gadda-da-change record on vinyl for the first time. It was originally issued in 1993 on CD. (Thanks to Dean B.) |
Mark sings in the Wylde Ratttz, who recorded a batch of songs in 1997. He sings on two songs on their record, which now has a physical release that's now available at bandcamp.com. The LP is released on December 5, limited to 1,000 copies, and comes in a variety of colors. (Thanks to John K.) |
Added the support acts for most dates of the 2023 Australian tour, on the Tour page. |
Corrected the setlist order for 5/11/01 Seattle in the Tourbook. (Thanks to Nick S.) |
They're also playing Rye, Australia on 4/25/23 as part of the Australian tour, on the Tour page. |
The new Mudhoney album is on track for release in April-ish, on Sub Pop. They just got test pressings back.
Tourbook Update |
Added setlists (and some notes) for the rest of the 2022 European tour (starting with 9/15/22 Barcelona), and sorted out how the 2020 tour dates were rescheduled to 2021 and then 2022. (Thanks to Mark B. for Dusseldorf) |
Mudhoney contributed a new song - 'Black Wire' - to the The Eleventh Hour: Songs for Climate Justice compilation released by Sub Pop. It's digital-only, and you can get yours from a variety of sources. |
They're playing Australia in April and May, on the Tour page. |
Mark is one of many, many singers on this song from Tim Kerr's [The Monkeywrench] new band, Up Around The Sun: bandcamp.com. It's unclear just how much of the song he sings. It's available for preorder on various colors of vinyl. |
Dan comments on Ringo Starr for The Seattle Times: Dan Peters drums with Mudhoney (and played with Nirvana), and his style comes close to the finesse that Ringo is notable for. "Ringo is the master of the left-handed drum fill," Peters said. "His left hand is his secret weapon!" |
Added all the UK setlists from the start of the European tour - Manchester, Glasgow, Nottingham, London, Bristol, and Brighton. Please note the debut of two new songs from a forthcoming album. There's rumors of more new songs being debuted as the tour goes on. |
The Tripwires show in Seattle tomorrow is cancelled (the other bands are playing). Three guys in the band caught covid last week. |
The Singles movie soundtrack (with 'Overblown') is being re-released by Mondo. It's a double-LP, available on orange or black vinyl, etc. It goes on sale today at 10am PT (GMT -0700) at mondoshop.com. |
Added the setlist and notes for last night in Bellingham to the Tourbook. (Thanks to Nick S.) |
Added setlists and some notes for both San Francisco shows to the Tourbook. |
Added setlists for Santa Fe, Tucson, San Diego, and Los Angeles to the Tourbook. |
Dan is playing with The Tripwires at the Conor Byrne Pub in Seattle on July 15. |
Added the setlists (or not) for Houston, Dallas, Austin 1, and Austin 2 to the Tourbook.
Tourbook Update |
Added setlists and notes for Chicago, Ferndale, Newport, Nashville, and New Orleans to the Tourbook. (Thanks to John K. for most of these)
Interview |
New Orleans tomorrow, May 11, is cancelled. |
Added the setlists (and some notes) for Boise through St. Louis to the Tourbook. (Thanks to James F. and Blain M. for Denver, and Tim D. for St. Louis)
Interview |
Added the setlist and notes for last night in Portland to the Tourbook.
New Show |
Added the setlist and notes for last night in Olympia to the Tourbook. |
Side Gig Calling all Resistors, The Electronic Resistance marches on as Beauty Hunters will perform the new composition "Performance Enhancement" on the 1st of April 2022 at 8pm. We can't tell you what "performance Enhancement" entails, so you'll just have to be there to see. The location is just a short distance from our last performance of "Cruising" at Smith Cove Park. It's under the Emerson Street Via-Duct, at the fisherman's terminal Magnolia. Right on the bike trail, in between the harbors net sheds and the BNSF railyard. Find your way to the south end of Net Shed N-8. Here's a geolocation if you need it!
Piece of Cake LP Reissue |
Added the setlist and notes for the two recent Seattle shows to the Tourbook. (Thanks to Justin L. and Nick S.) |
Added the support acts for 12/12/90 Canberra, Australia. (Thanks to Tom L.) |
Olympia, WA from long ago is rescheduled for April 9, on the Tour page. |
Added another act to the bill for 6/8/88 Seattle, WA, and added notes for 11/3/90 Irvine, CA in the Tourbook. (Thanks to Jimmy H. for Seattle) |
Added 2/17/89 Chico, CA and added notes to 10/29/91 Portland, OR in the Tourbook. |
Added dates for a Spring U.S. tour to the Tour page. |
Added the setlist for 10/29/91 Portland to the Tourbook. (Thanks to Karl B.) |
34 years in! Much like with 2020, Mudhoney had (rescheduled) plans for 2021 and covid said No. Here's looking forward to a 2022 where the world is in good enough condition to do things. But, in things that didn't require large groups of people, they recorded a new album (and then some), which should be released this year. Today also marks the 24th anniversary of this website. That's a long time! Thanks to everyone who wrote in to contribute information to this site over the past year (and the previous 21). It's always appreciated, and you can do it at ptn@ocf.berkeley.edu. |
The Crocodile shows in Seattle that were scheduled before covid are going to be held on March 16-17. Tickets available at eventbrite.com |
There are five autographed Mudhoney skateboards, available here.
Update from Mark Recording has been going very well and everyone in the band is good. |
Mudhoney is in the middle of nine days of recording for a new album, with producer Johnny Sangster at Crackle & Pop! studio in Seattle. |
You can own one of Steve's Big Muff pedals, via eBay. |
Guy was recently a guest on KEXP radio's Sound & Vision podcast. His interview starts at the one-hour mark, and covers his experience as a RN during covid, his podcast dealing with the same, and a bit on Mudhoney's recording plans (next month!). |
There's an interview with Guy at crosscut.com.
Side Show |
Steve's Sunday State is playing The Fixin' To in Portland on September 23. |
Mark and Steve talk about previous Mudhoney records, for tidal.com.
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Other "Blood donors are critical to providing the best care for the sickest patients. When you donate blood you're helping someone live another day. To have an opportunity to combine my role as an ER nurse and a musician to educate people about the real need for blood donors, that's important to me and for our community." |
Added the setlist and more notes for 8/24/90 Reading Festival to the Tourbook. |
Guy has a podcast about his experience as a RN during covid: My old friend Mathew Hall and I have been working on a podcast series about the experiences of a Level One Trauma Hospital during the initial outbreak of the Covid 19 pandemic, that being my place of employ Harboview Medical Center. I was reassigned to Covid duties from my regular job in 2020 and the journaling I did during these months forms the basis for the Podcast series. Each episode will feature a member of the hopstials staff with their own perspective on what happened. Episode one is Vanessa Markarewicz, our amazing Infection Prevention Operations Manager. I hope you can find some time to listen to her fascinating account. Please share this post or promote this podcast anywhere you see fit, as I believe the information is interesting and useful, and I hope that this sort of factual presentations of the the real expirences of Health Care workers during the pandemic can help people understand the importance of getting vaccinated and fighting this virus. Thank you for listening.You can listen here. |
Added 10/26/91 Pullman, WA (and merged it with 10/27/91, for which not even a city was known), and added notes for 7/27/91 Kennewick, WA. (Thanks to Sean H.) |
Added notes for 3/2/99 Hoboken, NJ to the Tourbook. |
Beauty Hunters are playing a free show in Seattle, at Smith Cove Park, on August 6th (7:30-9:30pm). |
There's an interview with Steve that was published in Scream & Yell. |
An entire bonus disc, color vinyl, all that good stuff! You can get yours at a variety of locations, including your local independent record store. |
The Fall European tour has been rescheduled for the Fall of 2022, on the Tour page. Some venues are changed. Nottingham, Brighton, Benidorm, Besancon, Paris, and Leuven are newly added. Ljubjana couldn't be rescheduled. The plan is to similarly make up the Spring 2020 North America tour in the Spring of 2022. No dates are known yet. |
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Dan is playing with The Tripwires on September 3 in Seattle at Conor Byrne Pub. They're supported by The Fall-Outs and Head. |
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Mudhoney has a playlist on Spotify containing 53 songs they like: These songs and bands were among our favorites when we were writing and recording Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. Get down, eat fudge! |
The Mudhoney/Meat Puppets split 45 is out today for Record Store Day. Released by Sub Pop, Mudhoney's song is 'The Warning,' which was originally by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, and popularized by Black Sabbath. This is limited to 2,500 copies. You can get a copy at your finer independent record stores. |
The music is the same, but for the collectors, there will be multiple versions of the Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge LP, out July 23:
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Mudhoney is releasing a 30th anniversary deluxe edition of Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge on July 23. The record is remastered, released via Sub Pop (SP1414), is on limited color vinyl (and also CD), and has the following bonus tracks on the second disk:
They've released a video for 'Ounce of Deception:' youtube.com. You can order your copy at subpop.com. |
You may have caught Steve's Sunday State on Portland, OR radio (Portland Radio Project, 99.1 FM) yesterday, with a performance and interview. Sunday State will be playing tomorrow in Portland: Strum Guitars on Friday, May 21, at 7pm (doors at 6:30). Limited seating, $10.
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Mudhoney's European t-shirt company has reissued some classic Mudhoney shirts, and you can get them at bingomerch.com. |
Updated the following entries in the Tourbook: |
Seattle Public Utlities has christened its new tunnel boring machine "MudHoney." You can read all about the project (with quotes from Mark) at seattletimes.com. You can see MudHoney for yourself (from a safe distance!) before it goes underground. It's located on the west side of Shilshole Ave NW in Seattle just south of NW Market St. |
Mudhoney will release a split 45 with The Meat Puppets on June 12 as part of Record Store Day, and via Sub Pop. Mudhoney's song is 'The Warning,' which was originally by The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, and popularized by Black Sabbath. This is limited to 2,500 copies.
Beauty Hunters Livestream Friday |
Guy's Beauty Hunters are releasing their Animal Magmatism LP on Friday, at bigcartel.com. It's limited to 250 copies on color vinyl, with the first 50 including a blotter-art rendition of the album artwork. Also on Friday, they'll be doing a livestream on their YouTube channel at 8pm PDT (GMT -0700). |
Steve's Sunday State has released a self-titled LP today, available at bandcamp.com. Vinyl should be available in the Summer. |
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Seattle Public Utilities is having a vote on the name of its new tunnel boring machine, and one candidate is Mudhoney. Dan says, "Hey everyone. Click this link and help name this machine Mudhoney." You can vote at survey.participate.online |
Added the complete setlist and other details for 7/12/11 Turku, Finland and 7/13/11 Helsinki, Finland in the Tourbook. (Thanks to Pyry K.) |
Steve's Sunday State have released the first single from their next, self-titled, record - 'White Pine County' - via bigtakeover.com. They're releasing the record on April 2, and it can be pre-ordered at bandcamp.com. They recorded it with Ken Stringfellow at his studio in Seattle, and with Larry Crane at Jackpot! Studio in Portland. |
Added the complete setlist and notes for 6/21/90 London in the Tourbook. |
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The second Beauty Hunters LP, Animal Magmatism will be available for purchase when it's released - February 15 (no pre-orders). You can get yours at theweirdbeard.bigcartel.com on that date. 250 copies, first 50 with a blotter art version of the sleeve image. |
Guy has a lot of side project activity, so let's just quote him in full: Well the New year is well and truly underway, and with it come new music! |
Added two more acts to the bill for 11/??/85 Green River, Hoboken NJ in the Tourbook. (Thanks to John K.) |
The Monkeywrench have reissued Electric Children on vinyl, via Bang! Records (bang-records.net). You can no doubt get your copy at finer music retailers. This happened last year but slipped under the radar. (Thanks to Dean B.) |
33 years in! Mudhoney had some plans for 2020, and then covid came. They got one show in, and cancelled tours of the Western U.S. and Canada, and Europe. Hopefully those can go on in 2021. They did manage some releases, both for Mudhoney and for side projects. You can see those by perusing through the prior year's updates. Today also marks the 23rd anniversary of this website. That's a long time! Thanks to everyone who wrote in to contribute information to this site over the past year (and the previous 21). It's always appreciated, and you can do it at ptn@ocf.berkeley.edu. |