Worldwide lovers of the finer things are rejoicing at the news that Mudhoney, yep Mudhoney, is back in vinyl and digital action in 2008 with The Lucky Ones, the band’s eighth full album in a mere 20 years of triumphant rocking.

The Lucky Ones redefines stripped-down, “back 2 basics” ramalama, certainly when it comes to Mudhoney’s recent past. I mean, it’s not like the band’s other twenty-first century works (2002’s Since We’ve Become Translucent and 2006’s Under a Billion Suns) were proggy, topographic explorations or anything—far from it. Yet this new one is deliberately and aggressively raw. It sounds as lean and as full-on as any modern equivalent one cares to mention. Recorded in a scant 3.5 days (including overdubs) with Tucker Martine (who also recorded four songs on the previous album), Mudhoney went in armed with a batch of new material expecting to spend a fair amount of time getting it right. Bang—and bang again after some mixing—and a new album was birthed in record time, faster than anything else the band’s done to date.

Borrowed from Sub Pop Records’ Mudhoney page

Wooden Ships, SF Dirty Stealer, Sleepy Sun support and open the show.

Show time: 8:00 pm Tickets $15 adv, $18 door available at: Ticket Web, Streetlight Records 831-421-9200, The Crepe Place 831-429-6994

Tags: Mudhoney, Rio Theatre, SF Dirty Stealer, Sleepy Sun, Stacie Willoughby, Wooden Shjips

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