Okay, here’s a passage from an AMG artist profile:

In addition to overcoming drug addiction and beginning work on a second solo album, Doughty continued to do solo tours and was heard contributing vocals to BT’s club hit “Never Gonna Come Back Down.”

Wow, how does someone find the time to work on a second solo album and do solo tours in between “overcoming drug addiction”? And does Pitchfork review drug-addiction-overcomings? Because I hear Iggy Pop’s new one bloooooooows.

Anyway, I don’t think I’ve listened to Soul Coughing in about three years, but I downloaded a concert of theirs from 1994 today while looking for something else – the new Dirty South Christmas CD, “Crunk & Disorderly”. I was only looking up their biography because I was going to make a “hilarious” “comment” about they were forced to break up in the fall of 2001 because of their, “A man drives a plane into the Chrysler Building” lyric. I was going to suggest that they were coming under a lot of criticism for being so inaccurate – the Chrysler Building is all the way up on 42nd Street, like two miles away.

Turns out that joke was ruined by them breaking up in early 2000. Dammit.

In closing, I wish to congratulate Mike Doughty on overcoming his drug addiction. But let this be a lesson to other victims of the Alternative Implosion; get a better street team when you overcome your drug addiction, otherwise people like me will never know.