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I first immersed myself in the music of the Mother

I first immersed myself in the music of the Mother Hips in 1995. My roommate had a friend who was good buddies with the band and he had loaned us his cassette of unreleased studio recordings that stayed on heavy rotation at my apartment. Most of these songs were outtakes from 1995's Part-Timer Goes Full. Around this time CD-Rs were first coming out. It was amazing to me at the time that you could burn and preserve your recordings from the cassette onto a CD. Most people, including myself, didn't know how to load music from the cassette onto a computer but I had a computer-savvy friend who was up for helping me burn my diet CD. Of course, I chose to make my own Mother Hips compilation of unreleased tracks which I titled Other Hips.⁠
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Fast forward fourteen years. It's 2009 and I'm still a huge Mother Hips fan and have collected all their rarities over the years. I'm asked by now-friends Tim and Greg to curate a CD box set to celebrate the band's twentieth anniversary. Realizing I was bestowed with the most fun project imaginable, I took the task very seriously and was going to leave no stone left unturned. I contacted anyone I thought might have some rare Hips gems I didn't already have. Gideon Zaretsky had worked with the Mother Hips on a few records and he was still sitting on the master 2-inch reels of the band’s first four records, so I drove from San Francisco to his studio in Los Angeles to pick them up. Upon returning, I brought everything over to Tim’s Mission Bells studio to start work on mastering with engineer David Simon-Baker for the Days of Sun and Grass box set. We threw the master reels on the tape machine and they were still in surprisingly good condition. I surveyed what we had from those multi-tracks and saw there were eleven songs we could mix that had never been released and rarely been played live, and were recorded during a very fiery and prolific period for the Hips. It quickly became apparent to me that these eleven songs, most of which had made up my old Other Hips CD, would make for a great record on their own. -David Dolger Schwartz, Mother Hips Archivist⁠
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"Becoming the 11th studio recording in The Mother

"Becoming the 11th studio recording in The Mother Hips’ discography, Glowing Lantern tops off a momentous year for the northern California-based band in which they celebrated their 30th anniversary by reissuing nine of their previous studio albums on vinyl." - @pcnmagazine⁠
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We premiered “Looking At Long Days” on our fri

We premiered “Looking At Long Days” on our friend, and Blue Rose founder Joe Poletto’s new podcast ‘Later Days’. We spoke about the meaning behind the song and album titles, as well as our songwriting process. Check it out with the Linkinbio.⁠

The first single from the 11-track collection, “

The first single from the 11-track collection, “Looking At Long Days” is out today! The new album, 'Glowing Lantern' is available December 3 from Blue Rose on vinyl and digital formats. Stream single/ Pre-Order album with the link in bio.⁠
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NEW ALBUM ‘GLOWING LANTERN’ OUT DECEMBER 3

NEW ALBUM ‘GLOWING LANTERN’ OUT DECEMBER 3

LISTEN NOW TO “LOOKING AT LONG DAYS”

LISTEN NOW TO “LOOKING AT LONG DAYS”

Summer Tour Dates Announced!

Summer Tour Dates Announced!

NEW GREG LOIACONO SINGLE AND VIDEO “LAST DAY OF JUNE”

NEW GREG LOIACONO SINGLE AND VIDEO “LAST DAY OF JUNE”

NEW ALBUM ‘GLOWING LANTERN’ OUT DECEMBER 3

NEW ALBUM ‘GLOWING LANTERN’ OUT DECEMBER 3

LISTEN NOW TO “LOOKING AT LONG DAYS”

LISTEN NOW TO “LOOKING AT LONG DAYS”

Summer Tour Dates Announced!

Summer Tour Dates Announced!

NEW GREG LOIACONO SINGLE AND VIDEO “LAST DAY OF JUNE”

NEW GREG LOIACONO SINGLE AND VIDEO “LAST DAY OF JUNE”

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