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Drummer-composer Matt Chamberlain talks improv and Mint residency - Los Angeles Times

Drummer-composer Matt Chamberlain talks improv and Mint residency
Los Angeles Times
This week he assembled a group that includes keyboardist Marco Benevento and former Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg, but the finale on May 30 may be the most intriguing in a pairing with guitarist Bill Frisell. Though Chamberlain and Frisell ...

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Mike Doughty has cleaned up his act, moved on - phillyBurbs.com


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Mike Doughty has cleaned up his act, moved on
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There's M. Doughty, who fronted the avant-rock act Soul Coughing during the 1990s. That Doughty penned inscrutable lyrics sung or rapped over Soul Coughing's twisted rock with a side of hip-hop and electronic. The band experienced some commercial ...
Mike Doughty, Horse Feathers at Higher Ground vt.Buzz (blog)

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Dysfunctional band spawns book, solo career - Columbus Other Paper


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Dysfunctional band spawns book, solo career
Columbus Other Paper
You probably know Mike Doughty from the radio hits of his former '90s band Soul Coughing—songs such as “Circles” and “Super Bon Bon.” But don't expect Doughty to play either of those songs (or any Soul Coughing material, for that matter) at his Ace of ...
Mike Doughty tour coming to Babeville Buffalo.com
Interview: Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing Columbus Alive

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shards and fragments - Wire

shards and fragments
Wire
Soul Coughing was a band on the rise in the late '90s, with a string of modest radio hits like “Screenwriter's Blues,” “Super Bon Bon” and “Circles.” The group's unique melding of experimental jazz, rock and hip-hop earned it glowing reviews and a ...

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Fantasy Band: Tom Vek - The Independent

Fantasy Band: Tom Vek
The Independent
Drums: Yuval Gabay For the backbone of my fantasy band I'd pick Soul Coughing drummer Yuval. All his grooves endlessly bounce along with extra detail and subtlety that makes most other drummers sound like swingless metronomes.

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Six Most Overused Rhymes - Riverfront Times (blog)

Six Most Overused Rhymes
Riverfront Times (blog)
In some instances, "star" is used in the literal sense, a flaming ball outside of our galaxy, like in Soul Coughing's "Circles," in which Mike Doughty crams the entire trinity into one lyric: "Slip into the car / Go driving to the farthest star.

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Pop Listings for May 18-24 - New York Times

Pop Listings for May 18-24
New York Times
(Anderson) Mike Doughty (Friday) The former doorman of the Knitting Factory in New York went on to form Soul Coughing and strike alt-rock pay dirt in the 1990s. His unreserved autobiography, “The Book of Drugs,” was a vibrant surprise last holiday ...

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Mike Doughty's rock concert/reading tour - Enterprise News (blog)

Mike Doughty's rock concert/reading tour
Enterprise News (blog)
Doughty bristles at the idea many people know him as the former frontman/songwriter for the 1990's band Soul Coughing. Doughty had grown up as an Army brat, whose dad taught history at West Point, and he alwasys saw himself as kind of a black sheep in ...

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Doughty stops at RiverRun before Friday performance - Foster's Daily Democrat

Doughty stops at RiverRun before Friday performance
Foster's Daily Democrat
PORTSMOUTH — RiverRun Bookstore in downtown Portsmouth with host a book-signing with Mike Doughty, the writer and musician best known as the lead singer of Soul Coughing. The event will be in the store at 142 Fleet St. on Friday, May 4 at 5:30 pm ...
Mike Doughty talks degradation, reawakening in 'The Book of Drugs' BurlingtonFreePress.com

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Memoirists Doughty, Burroughs to give readings - Durham Herald Sun

Memoirists Doughty, Burroughs to give readings
Durham Herald Sun
Doughty, whose recent release is “The Question Jar Show,” was the former lead singer and writer for the band Soul Coughing before he began a solo career. In his memoir, Doughty said he stuck it out with Soul Coughing, “until I had enough of a career to ...

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