Soul Coughing (1992–2000) was a New York-based alternative rock band comprised of Mike Doughty (vocals, lyrics, guitar), Mark De Gli Antoni (samples, keyboards), Sebastian Steinberg (string bass) and Yuval Gabay (drums). 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... In music, a band is a company of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of or improvising a musical arrangement on different musical instruments. ... Mike Doughty and bassist Scrap Livingston performing at the 2005 Austin City Limits Music Festival Mike Doughty (born June 10, 1970), is a singer and songwriter best known as the lead singer of Soul Coughing (generally as M. Doughty). ... Mark De Gli Antoni (b. ... Sebastian Steinberg (born February 20, 1959 in New York City) is an American upright bass player for the band Soul Coughing. ... Yuval Gabay (b. ...

They found only modest mainstream success, but had a devoted following and largely positive responses from critics; Steve Huey describes them as "[o]ne of the most unique cult bands of the '90s ... [d]riven by frontman M. Doughty's stream-of-consciousness poetry, Soul Coughing's sound was a willfully idiosyncratic mix of improvisational jazz grooves, oddball samples, hip-hop, electronics, and noisy experimentalism (described by Doughty as 'deep slacker jazz')."^[1] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In literary criticism, stream of consciousness denotes a literary technique which seeks to describe an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the characters thought processes. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy. ...

Origin

Mike Doughty (who billed himself at the time as "M. Doughty") was a folk singer (he attended Eugene Lang College with Ani DiFranco, where they studied with Sekou Sundiata and played around the school together), slam poet, sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot. He put the band together from instrumentalists he met as they came through the club. Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and for the common people. ... Eugene Lang College is the undergraduate liberal arts division of the The New School, formerly known as the New School for Social Research and New School University. ... Ani DiFranco (IPA: ) (born Angela Marie Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. ... Sekou Sundiata is an African-American poet and performer. ... Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York City Slam poetry is a postmodern performance poetry, a form of spoken word performed at a competitive poetry event, called a slam, at which poets perform their own poems (or, in rare cases, those of others) that are judged on a numeric scale by randomly... The Knitting Factory is a New York City music club, in its heyday specializing in jazz and experimental music (though these are no longer its main focus). ... John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in NYC, USA) is an avant-garde Jewish American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. ... Marc Ribot (born 1954) is a Jewish American guitarist, composer and occasional singer from Newark, New Jersey. ...

He met sampler player Mark De Gli Antoni (recently graduated with a composition degree from Mannes College of Music) when they both participated in a performance of Zorn's "game piece" Cobra. This same ensemble also featured Jeff Buckley. Doughty brought a stack of CDs over to De Gli Antoni's house one afternoon and had him sample iconic riffs from Raymond Scott, Carl Stalling, Howlin' Wolf, and The Andrews Sisters, among others. These, along with samples from De Gli Antoni's own orchestral works, became the foundation of Soul Coughing's musical identity, powering Doughty's half-sung, half-spoken vocals. An AKAI MPC2000 sampler // [edit] Overview The emergence of the digital sampler made sampling far more practical, and as samplers added progressively more digital processing to their recorded sounds, they began to merge into the mainstream of modern digital synthesizers. ... Mark De Gli Antoni (b. ... The Mannes College of Music is a music school located in New York City, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. ... Cobra is an unpublished but recorded and frequently performed musical composition by John Zorn that was conceived as a loosely structured system, or game piece, for a group of musical improvisors and a prompter. ... Jeff Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), born Jeffrey Scott Buckley and raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Raymond Scott (September 10, 1908 – February 8, 1994), was a Russian-American composer, orchestra leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. ... Carl W. Stalling (November 10, 1892–November 29, 1972) was a noted composer and arranger of music for animated cartoons. ... Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), better known as Howlin Wolf or sometimes, The Howlin Wolf, was an influential blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and harmonica player. ... The Andrews Sisters on the cover of the reissue collection The Best of the Andrew Sisters: The Millennium Collection. ...

De Gli Antoni, Doughty, Boston-based upright bass player Sebastian Steinberg, and Israeli drummer Yuval Gabay (a collaborator with Zorn, and David Linton) played their first gig, as "M. Doughty's Soul Coughing," at the Knitting Factory on June 15, 1992, a late-Monday night slot that Doughty cadged from his boss because nobody else wanted it. In 1993, he founded a club night called "SLAW" at CBGB's 313 Gallery, which was meant to emulate the popular jazz and hip hop club Giant Step, but eventually became a showcase for Soul Coughing. Posters for SLAW were headlined "Deep Slacker Jazz" (a parody of The Who's slogan "Maximum R&B"), which became an enduring description of the band's sound. Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ... Sebastian Steinberg (born February 20, 1959 in New York City) is an American upright bass player for the band Soul Coughing. ... Yuval Gabay (b. ... David Linton (1815-1889) was one of eight founders of Beta Theta Pi, a prominent college fraternity founded at Miami University in 1839. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The outside front facade of CBGB CBGB (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a legendary music club located at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Giant Step is a New York based concert promoter, marketing company, and record label. ... The Who are an English rock band who first came to prominence in the 1960s and grew to be considered one of the greatest and most influential rock n roll bands of all time. ...

Recording Career

The band was signed within a year to Warner Bros. subsidiary Slash Records, and released three albums: Ruby Vroom (1994), Irresistible Bliss (1996), and El Oso (1998). They enjoyed minor hit singles with "Circles," "Super Bon Bon," and "Screenwriter's Blues." They also had songs featured in the movies Batman and Robin, Tommy Boy and Spawn (a song called "A Plane Scraped Its Belly on a Sooty Yellow Moon", a collaboration with drum and bass artist Roni Size.) Also released following their breakup was Lust in Phaze (2002), a greatest hits complilation including a few b-sides and other rarities that featured extensive biographical and background liner notes written by Doughty. Warner Bros. ... Slash Records is a record label. ... Ruby Vroom was Soul Coughings 1994 (see 1994 in music) debut album. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Irresistible Bliss was Soul Coughings 1996 (see 1996 in music) second album. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... El Oso, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music) is the third and final album by the New York City band Soul Coughing. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The film Batman and Robin, directed by Joel Schumacher, is considered by most to be less serious than the 1989 Batman movie and sequels Batman Returns (1992) and Forever (1995). ... Tommy Boy is a 1995 comedy movie starring Chris Farley and David Spade. ... Spawn is a movie adaptation of Todd McFarlanes creator-owned Image comic book of the same name. ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to DnB or drum n bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Roni Size (b. ... Lust in Phaze was a 2002 (see 2002 in music) best of compilation album composed of tracks recorded by the band Soul Coughing. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ... Liner notes are the booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or any sound recording container. ...

Breakup and afterwards

The band broke up in 2000, after years of feuding over songwriting credits and publishing money. Doughty continued as a solo artist, collaborating with techno producer BT on the hit single "Never Gonna Come Back Down" in the summer of 2000. Dropped by Warner Brothers that same year, Doughty toured as a solo artist for three years, playing acoustic shows, driving alone throughout North America, and selling an acoustic CD, Skittish, from the front of the stage after gigs. He returned to the major leagues in 2005 with the release of Haughty Melodic on friend Dave Matthews' label, ATO Records; the single "Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well" became a radio hit, notably played on the soundtrack to Grey's Anatomy. Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from Chicago House, electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at... Brian Wayne Transeau (born October 4, 1971 in Rockville, Maryland) is an electronica musician, better known by his stage name, BT. He has been called the Father of Trance for his pioneering in the trance genre [1],[2] and Prince of Dance Music for his multi-instrumentalist skills [3], and... Skittish was the first album released by Mike Doughty after the breakup of his former band, Soul Coughing. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Haughty Melodic is an album by Mike Doughty released on May 3, 2005. ... David John Matthews (born January 9, 1967) is a South African, now naturalized American, Grammy-award winning lead vocalist and guitarist from Dave Matthews Band. ... According To Our Records (or ATO Records) was founded in early 2000 by Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band, Coran Capshaw, Chris Tezeli, and Michael McDonald. ... This article is about the television series. ...

Mark De Gli Antoni moved on to soundtrack work; Gabay formed the band UV Ray and has worked with Roni Size; Steinberg has played with David Byrne, Neil Finn, William Shatner, and Yerba Buena. Mark De Gli Antoni (b. ... Roni Size (b. ... David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads. ... Neil Finn in Hamburg, June 1996 Neil Mullane Finn OBE (born January 8, 1959 in Te Awamutu, New Zealand) is a singer and songwriter and one of New Zealands foremost musicians. ... William Bill Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Canadian actor, who gained fame for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. ... Binomial name Clinopodium douglasii (Benth. ...

References

1. ^ [1] Huey, Steve, "Soul Coughing" Allmusic.com band profile

Songs Used in the Media

• The song "Rolling" (from El Oso) is used as the soundtrack for a Betty Boop cartoon music video in the Groovies series from Cartoon Network, as was "Circles" (also off El Oso) in a video featuring Hanna-Barbera's the Flintstones cartoon characters caught in the common cartoon practice of background looping.
• "Super Bon Bon" (off Irresistible Bliss) appeared on an episode of the NBC television show Homicide: Life on the Street, and was also the theme song of ECW wrestler Danny Doring and Roadkill.
• The song "Unmarked Helicopters" appears on the X-Files tie-in album Songs in the Key of X, as well as the episode "Max" from season 4. "16 Horses" appears on the soundtrack of the movie based on the series.
• "Disseminated" features on a European (originally UK) advert for the Ford Transit van (since summer 2006). Perhaps no-one at Ford noticed its opening lyrics are 'The Goat Chewed Up, Once A Tin Can, The Goat Shat Out, Was A Ford Sedan'.
• "Sugar Free Jazz" from Ruby Vroom has been used in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle.
• 'Circles' is used in the 2004 movie 'Walking Tall' starring The Rock.
• Bass riff from "Super Bon Bon" was looped and used as bumper music on the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program.
• The song "Super Bon Bon" is one of the songs played during gameplay in the playstation (one) game 'Grand Turismo 2'.

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Discography

• Ruby Vroom (1994; Slash/London)
• Irresistible Bliss (1996; Warner)
• El Oso (1998; Warner)
• Lust in Phaze (2002; Rhino)

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References

• Huey, Steve. "Soul Coughing". All Music Guide. Retrieved June 13, 2005.

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External links

• Soul Coughing Underground - An unofficial website including a discography, guitar tablature, and other information
• website of Mike Doughty
• Mike Doughty's blog
• website of Mark De Gli Antoni
• Soul Coughing collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive