Artist: Mustard Plug: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Ska Rock: Punk-Rock Mustard Plug's discography: In Black and White Year: 2007 Tracks: 13 Skapocalypse Now! Year: 2001 Tracks: 16 Pray for Mojo Year: 1999 Tracks: 12 Evildoers Beware! Year: 1997 Tracks: 12 Big Daddy Multitude Year: 1993 Tracks: 16 Formed in 1991, Mustard Plug effected itself as a industrious independent stria. The Grand Rapids, MI-based grouping, with the assist of its label, the California indie ska-punk turnout Hopeless Records, repeatedly toured the United States, Europe, Japan, and South America. It made the rounds of two Warped Tours and participated in the Ska Against Racism circuit. Mustard Plug began its calling meager, releasing the cassette Skapocalypse Now! on its feature Dashiki Clout label in 1992. (It would be re-released on CD by Dashiki Clout and Hopeless in 1998.) But the band's proper debut, 1993's Grownup Daddy Multitude, was backed by the originative ska label Moon Records, which eventually went bankrupt. (The album was re-released by Hopeless later it signed Mustard Plug in the mid-'90s.) The CD pushed Mustard Plug into touring domain of a function, as they began acting a the great unwashed of gigs. Just as ska-punk was moving into the mainstream, Mustard Plug sent Evil Doers Beware to stores in 1997. Selling more than than than 90,000 copies, Evil Doers was a collaboration between the band and punk rocker legends Bill Stevenson (erst of Black Flag) and Stephen Egerton, both of whom play in All and the Descendents. The same yr, Mustard Plug quietly offered its skanking, frolicky hold on the Verve Pipe's slushy alt-rock hit "The Freshmen" for a brotherly love CD. The vocal generated such a buzz that it was met with radio set play on major stations of the Cross of the Cross throughout the Midwest. Stevenson and Egerton returned to the boards for the Simpsons-referencing Pray for Mojo, which strike stores in 1999. Yellow #5 followed three age by and by, and Mustard Plug issued the hits arrange Masterpieces: 1991-2002 in 2005. "A punk band cathartic a best-of album?" the band asked on its internet site. "Hey NOFX did it, so it must be OK!" In 2007, still display no signs of merchandising out to the major league, the base released its seventh criminal record album, In Black and White, with the help of Hopeless Records. |