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SUMMARY:Hot Mulligan
DESCRIPTION:HOT MULLIGAN is a ride-or-die testament to staying true to yo
 urself. When the emo band formed in 2014 and cut their teeth playing hou
 se shows and naming songs by closing their eyes and typing into auto-cor
 rect on their phones\, no one expected they’d be selling out thousand-ca
 p venues\, one of their scene’s most respected bands a decade later. But
  as Hot Mully readies their phenomenal fourth LP THE SOUND A BODY MAKES 
 WHEN IT’S STILL (Wax Bodega)\, that’s exactly where they’re at. Hot Mull
 igan is a resounding success story\, the #1 Hot New Band (11 years runni
 ng\, just ask them)\, and ready to keep fighting the good fight. “I don’
 t know anyone in their right mind who says\, I want to be a musician\, m
 ake money\, not have a job\, and also be comfortable\,” jokes guitarist 
 Chris Freeman\, thinking back to the band’s formative years in Michigan’
 s Upper Peninsula\, and later\, down in the mitten in the college town o
 f Lansing. “The dream was to play a song in a shit basement\, live in a 
 van\, be gross\, sleep on French fries\, and go to cities you’ve never b
 een to before.” Since 2018’s Pilot put Hot Mulligan on the map\, they’ve
  been lauded in Paste and Alternative Press\, streamed over 140 million 
 times on Spotify\, and toured with sonic forefathers like The Wonder Yea
 rs and Jimmy Eat World. For Hot Mulligan—vocalist Tades Sanville\, guita
 rists Freeman and Ryan Malicsi\, bassist Jonah Kramer\, and drummer Bran
 don Blakeley—the new LP is a white-knuckled affirmation of everything th
 ey stand for. And make no mistake: it’s never been easy. “ The Sound a B
 ody Makes When It’s Still is a lyric reference\,” says Sanville. “That l
 yric is in a song about paranoia\, which is fear. With the album title\,
  you can go the meditation route\, or\, the horror that you are in your 
 body\, and you have to exist. You have no choice\, really. Even if you p
 lan on killing yourself\, right now you exist. And that is a terrifying 
 thing.” This fear lives and breathes throughout the album\, in blisterin
 g choruses alongside the most vulnerable moments Hot Mulligan has ever l
 aid to tape. On “Moving to Bed Bug Island\,” a cathartic opener straight
  out of Hot Mully’s wheelhouse\, Sanville is screaming for sanity huddle
 d in a basement\; by the album’s final song\, the very-literally-titled 
 “My Dad Told Me to Write a Nice One for Nana So This Is It\,” he’s monol
 oguing his last respects over acoustic guitar to the mother figure who h
 elped raise him. That being said\, this is still a Hot Mulligan record\,
  and that means it rocks. Lead single “And a Big Load” is a heroic pop-p
 unk rager that spends its entire two minutes and 53 seconds outrunning t
 he ghosts that chase it. “It Smells Like Fudge Axe in Here” reels you in
  with its emo-gone-Tokyo Police Club groove. “Carbon Monoxide Hotel” pai
 rs some of the most emotional\, raw-nerve lyrics Sanville has ever sung 
 with a gutting breakdown and\, somehow\, one of the stickiest choruses i
 n the Hot Mulligan catalog. And even when life is beating you to the gro
 und\, Hot Mulligan resists the urge to take it all too seriously. The mo
 st challenging part of making the new album? According to the band\, rec
 ording while crashing in places that smelled like chocolate Axe body spr
 ay and exhaust from a seafood kitchen. Second hardest\, adds Freeman: “G
 etting our drummer to play the drums\, because he just acquired mounts i
 n World of Warcraft and wanted to play that instead.” Through it all\, H
 ot Mulligan and longtime producer Brett Romnes laid down a masterclass. 
 The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still grabs your attention with all its
  fight-or-flight hooks\, but it’s the little nuances and connective tiss
 ue that make it Hot Mulligan’s most cohesive album yet. There are grippi
 ng high notes from Sanville and subtle guitar twinkle and synthesizer sp
 arkle that unfurl with every listen.There’s a pair of poignant interlude
 s—“This Makes Me Yummy” and “This Makes Me Yucky”—with Sanville reading 
 a dreamlike\, half-audible short story down in the mix of the latter (it
 ’s up to listeners to figure it out). “Slumdog Scungillionaire\,” the pe
 nultimate track\, weaves lyrics from throughout the LP into a soft-to-lo
 ud\, time signature-shifter unlike anything the band has ever written. W
 hile records like 2020’s you’ll be fine and 2023’s Why Would I Watch hol
 d up as classics\, Hot Mulligan has never crafted a start-to-finish stat
 ement like this. Their most accomplished LP in tow\, Hot Mulligan is rea
 dy to venture on. Their 2025 plans include gigs at Bonnaroo and Slam Dun
 k Festival\, a UK arena/stadium tour with Pierce the Veil\, and of cours
 e\, their own headlining tour. It’s all especially affirming to Hot Mull
 igan’s roots. “When we started Hot Mulligan\, the emo revival was going\
 ,” Freeman says\, shouting out inspirations like You Blew It! and Modern
  Baseball. “We so desperately wanted to be a part of that\, but by the t
 ime anyone would listen to songs called ‘11 Second Burp\,’ most of those
  bands disappeared and we were out on our own. Even though we were born 
 at the ass-end of that\, we captured the sound a little.” Now\, bands wh
 o\, like Hot Mulligan\, never chased radio play or of-the-moment co-writ
 ers\, are pushing sonic boundaries while playing sprawling festivals and
  raucous\, packed club shows. “I’m proud that we didn’t go\, Well\, our 
 music’s not here anymore\, let’s write something else so we can ride the
  wave. We stuck to our guns.”\n\nTickets: https://www.ticketmaster.com/h
 ot-mulligan-north-american-fall-tour-charleston-south-carolina-11-11-202
 6/event/2D0064CC95D4C2B8\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/1c823d12-e
 c1c-40bf-a7ba-d134b4776419
LOCATION:Charleston Music Hall\, Charleston\, SC
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/1c823d12-ec1c-40bf-a7ba-d134b477641
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