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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 Bo
 dy Makes When It’s Still is a lyric reference\,” says Sanville. “That ly
 ric 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 b
 ody\, and you have to exist. You have no choice\, really. Even if you pl
 an on killing yourself\, right now you exist. And that is a terrifying t
 hing.” This fear lives and breathes throughout the album\, in blistering
  choruses alongside the most vulnerable moments Hot Mulligan has ever la
 id to tape. On “Moving to Bed Bug Island\,” a cathartic opener straight 
 out of Hot Mully’s wheelhouse\, Sanville is screaming for sanity huddled
  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 monolo
 guing his last respects over acoustic guitar to the mother figure who he
 lped 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-pu
 nk rager that spends its entire two minutes and 53 seconds outrunning th
 e 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” pair
 s some of the most emotional\, raw-nerve lyrics Sanville has ever sung w
 ith a gutting breakdown and\, somehow\, one of the stickiest choruses in
  the Hot Mulligan catalog. And even when life is beating you to the grou
 nd\, Hot Mulligan resists the urge to take it all too seriously. The mos
 t challenging part of making the new album? According to the band\, reco
 rding while crashing in places that smelled like chocolate Axe body spra
 y and exhaust from a seafood kitchen. Second hardest\, adds Freeman: “Ge
 tting our drummer to play the drums\, because he just acquired mounts in
  World of Warcraft and wanted to play that instead.” Through it all\, Ho
 t Mulligan and longtime producer Brett Romnes laid down a masterclass. T
 he 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 tissu
 e that make it Hot Mulligan’s most cohesive album yet. There are grippin
 g high notes from Sanville and subtle guitar twinkle and synthesizer spa
 rkle that unfurl with every listen.There’s a pair of poignant interludes
 —“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 pen
 ultimate track\, weaves lyrics from throughout the LP into a soft-to-lou
 d\, time signature-shifter unlike anything the band has ever written. Wh
 ile records like 2020’s you’ll be fine and 2023’s Why Would I Watch hold
  up as classics\, Hot Mulligan has never crafted a start-to-finish state
 ment like this. Their most accomplished LP in tow\, Hot Mulligan is read
 y to venture on. Their 2025 plans include gigs at Bonnaroo and Slam Dunk
  Festival\, a UK arena/stadium tour with Pierce the Veil\, and of course
 \, their own headlining tour. It’s all especially affirming to Hot Mulli
 gan’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 ti
 me 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 a
 t the ass-end of that\, we captured the sound a little.” Now\, bands who
 \, like Hot Mulligan\, never chased radio play or of-the-moment co-write
 rs\, are pushing sonic boundaries while playing sprawling festivals and 
 raucous\, packed club shows. “I’m proud that we didn’t go\, Well\, our m
 usic’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/ho
 t-mulligan-north-american-fall-tour-portland-maine-11-04-2026/event/0100
 64CFF290E1F3\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/ad045adb-b2fa-4812-8ba
 2-c668885c0a26
LOCATION:State Theatre\, 609 Congress St\, Portland\, ME 04101
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/ad045adb-b2fa-4812-8ba2-c668885c0a2
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