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Monday, December 31 (Updated 1/1/02)
Mudhoney Record News: From Jack Endino's (www.endino.com) latest e-mail newsletter:

...Mudhoney has just signed a one record deal with Sub Pop! I've heard some of the songs they recorded already, and the stuff is really, really good, I shit you not. They've done something interesting with this one: they are going around to each of the engineer/producers in town that they like, and recording a few songs with each one. That way the record will have a more diverse sound. I think it's a totally brilliant idea. So far, they've used Scott Colburn (www.gravelvoice.com), Johnny Sangster, and Martin Feveyear. I also have a song they recorded with me last year which we just remixed, but I'm not sure if it will be on the record or not. Hope so!

1/1/02 Update: More from Jack Endino:

It was "Inside Job" [that was re-mixed] but I'm not sure they have the rights to use it on the album. They re-arranged "The Straight Life" [like they've played it live] and re-recorded it elsewhere, and the third track still has no lyrics yet, and not sure when Mark will come up with some.

And a bit from Scott Colburn's e-mail newsletter:

To ring in the new year we thought it appropriate to make your ears ring with Cut of the Month [see below], so tune in to mighty mighty Mudhoney's "Crooked and Wide" from their forthcoming album on Sub Pop. This is one of three pieces recorded at Gravelvoice last month, and we are very happy with the results. I think this song is the lost track from Black Sabbath's first LP, but you be the judge.

The song is available on Scott's website (www.gravelvoice.com) and is in streaming Real Audio.

Wednesday, November 7
Mudhoney to Record: From Mark:

Mudhoney is going into Gravelvoice studio with Scott Colburn on the weekend of Nov 17 (check out www.gravelvoice.com) and we've booked the weekend of Dec 8 at Egg Studios with Johnny Sangster...It's for a specific project: The New Album. We've got four completed new songs that are ready to go plus the Alice Cooper cover. Our plan is to record two or three songs (as we come up with them) in different studios with different engineers. That way our focus will be on a couple of tunes instead of 16. Hopefully the sound of each studio and sensibility of each engineer will add a specific texture (or flavor, if you will) to the material we record.

Thursday, October 25
Kinks Tribute Release Date: Sub Pop will release Give The People What We Want - Songs of The Kinks (SP0575-2) on November 6th. The album is available on CD only and can be purchased for $13.00 from Sub Pop's website. This page contains a bigger picture of the cover as well as a full tracklisting. Further information on the record can be found below.

Thursday, September 27 (Updated 10/25/01 and 12/4/01)
Live Monkeywrench Album Released: ...And One Really Nervous Guy (TMOQ 5400 LP) is now available from Lance Rock Records. The LP-only release pressed on clear vinyl and limited to 600 copies. The record comes with one of four different inserts. The inserts are colored blue, pink, yellow and green and contain different pictures. Taken from The Monkeywrench's performances in London with Pearl Jam last year, the tracklisting is as follows:

Side A:
Bring on the Judgement Day
Levitation
Thirteen Nights
Great Down Here
The Pusher 		Side B:
Sugar Man
Look Back
The Weasel's in the Barn
Love is a Spider
Cherry Red
In the Days of the Five

Sunday, September 23
More on Live Monkeywrench Album: From Lance Rock Records on the live Monkeywrench album (LRR 036):

Monkeywrench live at Wembley inches closer to production. The working title is "Which one is Tom?" but they will likely change it by release date. The master tapes have been completed and are in transit. Pressing will begin as soon as possible. Look for it in coloured vinyl for a limited time. More details soon.

Friday, September 7
VH1 Grunge Special: VH1's "News Special: Grunge" will debut next Thursday, September 13th, at 10pm. It will feature new interviews with Mark and Steve, among others. The current schedule of airings is as follows:

Sunday, June 10 (Updated 6/14/01)
Video Compilations: Issue #2 of T.V. Eye, featuring "Here Comes Sickness" and "Beneath the Valley..." from the show in Los Angeles on 1/13/01 is now available. It can be ordered at www.tveyemag.com. Information on the release is below. Issue #3 or #4 will feature the Monkeywrench. Footage of them has been shot at their shows in Southern California last Fall and at Garageshock on May 27th.

Sunday, June 10
Recording News/New Releases/New Bassist: News from Steve, with comments in brackets:

We actually recorded the Kinks song yesterday [for the Kinks tribute album]. "Who'll Be The Next In Line". No idea if it's going to be on the 7". We also recorded "Behind The Door" for a Circle Jerks tribute. This was with Steve Dukich on bass, today we're practicing with Guy Madison [from Bloodloss] for the upcoming shows. Monkeywrench just recorded eight songs [the Thirteenth Floor Elevators' "Levitation", and seven originals, including "On Your Arrival" and "Black Plastic Tarp"] down in Texas recently, too.

Sunday, June 10
Wylde Ratttz Record/Tour: According to both Mike Watt's website (www.hootpage.com), and the Estatic Peace/Smells Like Records website (www.smellslikerecords.com), the Wylde Ratttz album will be released sometime in the fall on Thurston Moore's Estatic Peace, which is an imprint of Smells Like Records. Mike Watt's site also says this of a tour: "Tour would depend on [Mike Watt's] schedule I'd say, and by how much Thurston can do."

Thursday, June 7
Kinks Tribute Record: The possible Kink's tribute record is confirmed to be happening, with Mudhoney contributing an unknown song. Titled Give the People What They Want, it will be released by BurnBurnBurn Records in September. The other artists participating in this all-Northwest release are The Fastbacks, The Murder City Devils, Mark Lanegan, The Fallouts, The Young Fresh Fellows, C-Average, The Minus 5, The Briefs, The Makers, Heather Duby, Love as Laughter and Baby Gramps.

Tuesday, June 5 (Updated 6/5/01)
Wylde Ratttz mp3s: The long dormant Wylde Ratttz website (www.wylderatttz.com) has become active, hosting seven Wylde Ratttz songs in mp3 format. The files available are Hotshot, Take L.S.D., Judy's Blues, Smoke, Rosalyn, and Hollow Around You. The only song that Mark definately signs on is "Hollow Around You". As for the other songs, according to Mark, "There was a bunch of other stuff recorded later when I was unable to go out there, so the record wouldn't be a bunch of Stooges covers. So that's probably what's available on the site."

The Wylde Ratttz are Mark, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Don Fleming (producer), and Mike Watt (Minutemen, et al.). They originally got together in 1998 to record a couple Stooges songs for the soundtrack to Velvet Goldmine and ended up recording an album's worth of material.

Sunday, May 27
Mudhoney in Book: On July 1st, Michael Azerrad's new book, Our Band Could Be Your Life : Scenes from the American Rock Underground, 1981-1991 (Little, Brown & Company; ISBN: 0316063797) will be released. A chapter will be devoted to Mudhoney. Other chapters will contain Black Flag, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Minor Threat, Husker Du, The Replacements, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Big Black, Dinosaur Jr., Fugazi, and Beat Happening.

Monday, March 26
New Mudhoney Song: Following "Inside Job", another Mudhoney song is available via musicblitz.com. "The Straight Life", which was recorded during the same sessions as "Inside Job" and has Wayne Kramer playing bass is available as a free MP3 download to all those that purchase the Beyond Cyberpunk compilation (containing "Inside Job") that's to be released tomorrow.

Monday, March 26 (Updated 4/2/01)
Live Monkeywrench Record: Lance Rock Records will be releasing Live at Wembley, a LP only live album of one of The Monkeywrench's performances opening for Pearl Jam on 5/29/00 and 5/30/00. The record will be limited to 500 copies. The record will not be released for at least several months and the show to be featured has not been set.

Sunday, March 25 (Updated 4/2/01)
The Bassist Situation: According to Mark, Matt's last performance with Mudhoney was 1/20/01 in Seattle. "Steve Dukich is not the full time mudhoney bassist. he will play with us at The Crocodile on May 11, and he might go in the studio with us, but that's about it for now."

Saturday, February 10
Steve Interview Recap: The following are the highlights from Steve's interview with KFJC-FM on January 24th:

Saturday, February 10
New Original Sonics Sound Record: As of February 2nd, the New Original Sonics Sound record has been released in Japan by 1+2 Records (1+2CD132). The album can be purchased via the 1+2 Records website, www.barnhomes.com, which also contains some photos from the band's 6/25/00 performance.

Tuesday, February 6 (Updated 2/10/01)
Two Compilations: Mudhoney will probably contribute to one compilation, and is confirmed for another. First, the possible contribution: A Kinks tribute album featuring Northwest artists. According to Mark, "We've talked about it, but nothing's set in stone yet. We haven't picked a song or anything." Bands confirmed for the release are The Murder City Devils, Mark Lanegan, The Fastbacks and Neko Case and Her Boyfriends.

The second is 25 Years of Rough Trade Shops (CDSTUMM191), a 3 CD/5 LP compilation being released to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the British music store Rough Trade Shops. The set will be released on March 5th by Mute records and will contain Mudhoney's Touch Me I'm Sick. Other bands contributing include The Chemical Brothers, Pere Ubu, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Spacemen 3 and The Lemonheads. The full tracklisting is available at www.deo.com/uk/roughtrade/.

Monday, January 29
The Monkeywrench to Record: Word from Tim:

I'm going there at the end of March to record the Blowup and I am going to stay to practice with Monkeywrench and probably do at least one show. I'm going back up in April for a friend's wedding and Monkeywrench will probably play again and once again I will stay extra to practice with those guys. We are going to record here in Austin following Garageshock at the studio I do alot of stuff in called The Sweatbox.

Monday, January 22
Steve Interview: Steve will be doing an interview with KFJC-FM 89.7 Palo Alto, CA this Wednesday, January 24 at 4:00PM PST. The interview will be webcast at KFJC's website, www.kfjc.org. Both streaming mp3 and Java based streaming audio is available.

Wednesday, January 17 (Updated 1/21/01 and 2/10/01)
New Releases: On March 27th, Wayne Kramer Presents: Beyond Cyberpunk! will be released. The compilation, which also features contributions from Ron Asheton, Richard Hell and Pere Ubu will contain Mudhoney's Inside Job, heretofore only available as a free mp3 download from musicblitz.com. The full tracklisting of the album is as follows:

Also, two songs from Mudhoney's 1/13/01 performance at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, CA will be contained in issue #2 of the T.V. Eye video magazine, to be released in late February. The songs included will most likely be Here Comes Sickness and Beneath the Valley.... Their entire performance was taped with three cameras for this purpose. In addition to that, an interview with Matt taped at the 1/14/01 San Diego performance will be included. Other bands to be included are The Murder City Devils, Zen Guerrilla, J Mascis and the Fog and The Heads. The Monkeywrench will appear in a later issue of T.V. Eye.

Wednesday, January 10
Show Webcast?: It appears that the Knitting Factory is webcasting all performances there at its website. Although it's not explicitly stated, it's quite possible that the Mudhoney show there this Saturday, January 14th will be webcast as well. Viewing the webcast requires the Real Player plugin as well as the standard system requirements.

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