Right now, Stiles says, the group will probably fly to Los Angeles and Chicago for showcases, but they are no longer interested in touring like they used to - traveling the country in a label-provided van.Gorji celebrates the Best Steakhouse designation with a Steak & Wine Tasting event on November 30, 2021. There’s much more to come from The Mullens, who are looking to tour Europe with the release. The vinyl for the release will be distributed throughout the Get Hip label, with an album release show at Fort Worth’s Lola’s Saloon March 25.įor the singer, the only difference between the new material and the original releases is that Mayo won’t be featured on the new album. “It’s still garage rock, and Matt was a bit more '70s influence and the heavy sounds our drummer made, everyone said we sounded like the Stooges, but we weren’t trying to go for that,” Stile says.
Their style and live energy - which differs a lot from the sound during the band's earliest years - have kept fans around. The Mullens are often compared to Iggy Pop's 1970s-era Stooges. “We had all these songs in the can for the past two years and reached out to Get Hip and it was going to happen eventually, so yeah we got an album with Jordan Richardson mastering.” “I’ve been writing songs all this time and playing all these new songs and recording them at Cloudland Studio with Joe Tacke,” Stile says of the album's production. The music never left we have always played big gigs.” – Tim Stile tweet this Some of the songs on the 10-track album, which will include their latest singles “No More To Talk About,” and “What You Deserve," had been written as long as six or seven years ago, Stile says. 3 at the 13th Floor and past SXSW showcases. The group recently returned from playing Carousel Lounge at Austin’s SXSW, which Stile calls "a blast." The group group is no stranger to Weird City, having played in Austin just a few months ago on Dec. The music never left we have always played big gigs.” “The group never stopped making music,” Stile says.
The band has released music all over the world on one label since their start, and they still keep a presence in North Texas by playing around town frequently. “The Mullens never broke up and we never stop playing.”
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“The kind of full force that we were going at probably lasted until about 2002, 2003, with a bit of a lag in 2010 and a 12-year gap since our last album,” Stile says.
The current lineup also includes songwriter Stile on vocals and Lee Lazarine (who's been around "practically from day one," Stile says) on guitar and vocals, Mike McHenry manning lead guitar and Rod Baird, who is still on drums. The latter left in 2000, later replaced by Bill Whetsel, who's been in the band for about 20 years. The original '94 Mullens lineup consisted of Dallas natives and Galaxy Club stagehands and other Deep Ellum veterans: Matt Mayo on guitar, Rod Baird on drums and Dana Williams on bass. “I wanted to do something more exciting and do something new,” he says. He channeled that influence into his own band. Coming soon to streaming platforms, Get What You Deserve will be the band's fifth LP for Pittsburgh-based music label Get Hip Records.ĭuring the era when grunge reigned supreme, Stile never really got into it, and was more interested in Texas psych punk and shoegaze bands.
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The Mullens' original frontman, Tim Stile, has long managed the group's tours and the royalties still coming in from radio and TV play, which they've received since they debuted in 1997 with a self-titled album.Īnd The Mullens are still putting their punk-influenced garage rock out into the world. After forming in Old East Dallas in 1994, the band generated a following by playing at long-gone Deep Ellum venues such as the Galaxy Club and The Orbit Room. The Mullens have been around so long that they've outlived most of the venues they've played.
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