event

Mike Doughty

with Ghost of Vroom Improv Set 2021
Feb, 4 @ 8:00 pm ( Doors: 8:00 pm )
Majestic Theatre
All Ages
$10
Online Event
Additional Info

Tune in on Thursday, February 4th at 8PM Eastern Time for a one of a kind, all improv set by Mike Doughty’s new band “Ghost of Vroom” from Memphis Magnetic Recording Company. The performance will showcase the stream-of-consciousness music of Doughty’s new project alongside cellist and fellow band member Andrew “Scrap” Livingston, drummer Madden “Lil Pepper” Klass and guitarist Logan Hannah. All members of Mike Doughty’s Patreon page as of January 25th will receive a free watch code ahead of the stream.

The archived stream will be available on-demand for 72 hours

Artists
Mike Doughty

Before emerging as a solo artist, Mike Doughty (known as M. Doughty during the early stages of his career) was best known as the frontman of the unique avant-garde group Soul Coughing. Formed in 1992, Soul Coughing took shape after Doughty met Yuval Gabay, Sebastian Steinberg, and Mark de Gli Antoni while working as a doorman at the Knitting Factory, a staple of New York City's underground music scene. The four musicians signed with Slash/Warner Bros. in 1993 after making a name for themselves on the local scene with a fusion of rock, Doughty's beatnik-inspired lyrics, and elements of hip-hop and electronic music. Releasing their first of three albums the following year, Soul Coughingenjoyed only moderate commercial success over the next six years with the singles "Super Bon Bon" and "Circles." However, their unclassifiable style kept them apart from the mainstream, which became beneficial as the initial boom of alternative rock in the early '90s subsided considerably.

In March 2000, the members of Soul Coughing split up to work on their own side projects. Shortly after the breakup,Doughty -- who had been writing as a columnist for New York Press on the side -- embarked on a solo acoustic tour, playing material from a then-unreleased solo album recorded in 1995 entitled Skittish. After bootleg copies of the album surfaced on the file-sharing network Napster, Doughtyreleased an official version of Skittish on his website in October 2000. A stripped-down acoustic effort, Skittishfeatured some of Doughty's most direct and personal lyrics, accompanied by his signature, syncopated guitar-playing style.

In addition to overcoming drug addiction and beginning work on a second solo album, Doughtycontinued to do solo tours and was heard contributing vocals to BT's club hit "Never Gonna Come Back Down," and collaborating with John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants for a CD that accompanied an issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. He also composed the soundtrack to a trailer for New York City's Gen Art Film Festival.

In July 2002, Doughty released the limited-edition live albumSmofe + Smang: Live in Minneapolis. It featured a large selection of solo material as well as Soul Coughing classics. A book of poetry entitled Slanky, which was initially self-released in 1995, also coincided with the live album. In 2003, more solo work surfaced in the form of the Rockity Roll EP, which was then combined with the Skittish album and re-released with a handful of bonus tracks when Doughtysigned to ATO Records in 2004. In 2005, Doughty released his first solo effort to feature a band, Haughty Melodic, which contained fleshed-out studio versions of several songs debuted on Smofe + Smang, and 2008's Golden Delicious followed suit. The latter album cracked the Billboard 100, Doughty's first solo release to do so, and he quickly returned in 2009 with another record, Sad Man Happy Man. In 2011, he released the full-length Yes and Also Yes on his own Snack Bar label. In 2012, Doughty released a second book,The Book of Drugs, a memoir about his life withSoul Coughing and his struggles with addiction, as well as the live album The Question Jar Show, and The Flip Is Another Honey, which featured Doughty covering artists from Thin Lizzy to Randy Newman. Hip-hop producer Good Goose helped Doughty revamp a set of Soul Coughing material following a successful spring 2013 PledgeMusic campaign which helped him raise funds for the sessions. The lengthily titled release, named after every track that appears on the album, was released in September of that year.~Allmusic

Ghost of Vroom Improv Set 2021