Girl Talk returns to the club this month, and will be busting out fat jamz.

Girl Talk began with Greg Gillis tearing apart mainstream music using digital signal processing (DSP) and re-piecing various songs back together into glitchy avant-garde renditions of pop music. This cut-and-paste train wreck style is what comprises Girl Talk’s debut release Secret Diary (Illegal Art, 2002). He also developed the initial incarnation of his self-proclaimed “over the top” live show during this era, complete with synchronized dance squads, outfit changes, and plenty of crowd interaction/participation. These flashy performances were a response to the increasingly widespread sit-behind-a-laptop-and-look-bored-while-simultaneously-boring-the- audience-style laptop shows.

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FROM MR. DOUGHTY:

“My name is Mike Doughty. I’m a singer/songwriter. I live in Brooklyn.

I’m a blogger and photographer, too: go read it at mikedoughty.com/blog.

I’ve also written a book of poetry, Slanky and a bunch of plays for The 24 Hour Plays, taken naked pictures for SuicideGirls.com of the fabulous tattooed model Twwly, wrote an Aquaman story for DC Comics’ Bizarro World, and among some other music writing, had a piece included in the Da Capo Press Best Music Writing series.

These days, I’m hanging out waiting for the release of my new album Golden Delicious, produced by Dan Wilson in the mythic realm of Minneapolis. Many shows will follow.

My last album, Haughty Melodic, got played on the radio a whole lot, and was on the TV shows Grey’s Anatomy and Veronica Mars.

And yeah, I used to be The Guy From Soul Coughing. I quit the band in 2000, against the advice of every sensible person I knew, and took off in a rental car (9000 miles by myself on my first tour) to be a roving acoustic-izer.“

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