MUGSTAR have some new shows:

18th May – Liverpool Sound City, Liverpool, UK

19th May – Louisana, Bristol, UK

22nd June – Kazimer, Liverpool, UK with Damo Suzuki on vocals

Mugstar & Clinic will be joined by some of Liverpool’s emerging artists for the release of GAME THEORY; a limited tape release for Record Store Day

http://www.bidolito.co.uk/content/game-theory

We are pleased to announce that our soundtrack album to the film ‘Ad Marginem’ will be released by Agitated Records on 11 June 2012. It will be released on Vinyl / DVD and CD / DVD.

Mugstar have been nominated for a GIT Award, a celebration of Merseyside based creativity.

It has been a significant year for musical creativity and diversity on Merseyside and this has been confirmed by the 12 acts shortlisted for the inaugural GIT Award 2012.

The GIT Award, named after Liverpool music blog Getintothis and dubbed by the national music press as the Scouse Mercury Prize, celebrates the finest new recordings in the last 12 months on Merseyside.

GIT Award founder and chair of judges, Peter Guy, said: ‘The first GIT Award shortlist highlights the wealth of new musical talent within Merseyside.
‘The artists are ambitious and inventive, emotional and passionate, funny and profound. They evoke a sense of time and place, providing a wonderful snapshot of Merseyside’s varied sonic landscape proving why Liverpool is still the centre of the music universe.‘

The GIT Award 2012 shortlist is:

Bang On
Ex-Easter Island Head
Forest Swords
Loved Ones
Miss Stylie
Mugstar
Outfit
Ninetails
Bill Ryder-Jones
Stealing Sheep
The Tea Street Band
Esco Williams

We have some new shows coming up:

Friday 2nd March – The Continental Preston – With Teeth of The Sea

Thursday 22nd March – Leeds – With White Hills

Friday 23rd March – The Kazimer, Liverpool – With White Hills

We have just finished recording album no. 5

its going to be out Monday 1st October…..

We have a new 7″ out today – a split with Carlton Melton on Tresmat Records. CM do ‘Company’ and we have the dark ‘Black Fountain’.

trensmat.com

The wonderful Robert Hampson has remixed ‘Serra’ from ‘Lime’ turning 13 minutes into an epic journey of 39 minutes. Think minimal Can like movements….released today on Agitated Records – Lime green vinyl / CD

We are back from our European Trek…many thanks to everyone we met, who came to the shows and helped us out. We’ll see you all again.

Our split album with New York’s Finest Oneida is out tomorrow. One long track each – released on Rocket Recordings.