As Soul Coughing frontman and solo artist extraordinaire celebrates the release of two new records this year, we caught up with him to chat about it all.
At this point in his career, Mike Doughty should be a professor at some small Upstate New York liberal arts college. You can just imagine him sitting by the fire, grading papers with a small lap dog in repose by his feet.
If you're a Mike Doughty devotee, you know he’s the former lead singer of the '90s alt-rock band Soul Coughing, and that he's had an absolutely rad -- no other way to describe it -- solo career.
Singer-songwriter Mike Doughty is giving fans a chance to access his vault of unreleased material with the Lo-Fi Lodge, a subscription program starting later this month. For a one-time $20 fee, listeners will be able to download 32 tracks, one per week, from the past decade of Doughty's solo career.
When Mike Doughty parted ways with Soul Coughing in 2000, it wasn’t just the end of one of the more innovative bands of the ‘90s alternative movement -- it was also the start of a soon-to-be flourishing solo career. Whereas Soul Coughing made their name by combining elements of alt rock, hip-hop, jazz and spoken word into a stylish groove that spawned hits like ‘Super Bon Bon’ and ‘Circles’ -- sin