Status: Single
City: Portland
State: Oregon
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/25/2005
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Friday, October 30, 2009
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Current mood:  artistic
Hello Everybody, The Hugs are having an Album Release Party @ The Doug Fir Lounge! W/ Derby & 1776 + Motopony
Also!
The Hugs
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Current mood:  anxious
The Hugs return with new second LP titled "Again & Again" out now!
Buy your copy now at the link below:
It is set for an October 6th, 2009
1.) She Was High
2.) Go Wild
3.) Never Gonna Live, Never Going To Die
4.) Keep It
5.) Frozen Frogs
6.) Damp Toes
7.) Yesterday Now
8.) Midnight Dream
9.) In Love
10.) The Years Have Shown
11.) Florida Girl
12.) Come Close
13.) Ego's
14.) Dreams
ALSO!
BUY THE DEBUT ALBUM HERE!
The Hugs are proud to announce their debut album is now officially available through CD BABY.
* Go to the link below to preview and purchase your copy now. Thank your Stars... More BIG news mighty soon in Hugs camp.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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Current mood:  accomplished
The Hugs play breezy up-beat garage pop rock from Portland, Oregon USA.
The new album (Which was recorded at the coolest studio in Portland, Oregon called Klickitat Band Camp with producer Shay Scott.
(www.KBCrecords.com)
Producer Shay S. Scott (Klickitat Band Camp)
The Hugs second LP "Again & Again" has proved The Hugs development has much improved into being a more mature, commercially radio-ready garage band.
Fuzz blasted tones, jangly guitars, heavy chorus hooks, thoughtful lyrics. It's all here!
With already two self released full length albums full of loud, ambitious, catchy, and infectious pop anthems under their belts (members average age of 21 years old) The Hugs are now a visceral, honest and young new band on the rise. Currently in the UK with special showcases in London for the rest of 09.
Stay Tuned
www.TheHugsGoWild.com
"There's a band called The Hugs that I like a lot" - Gus Van Sant" (Movie Director)
The Hugs are the underage anglophile indie-poppers from Portland, Oregon. With experience closer to the cradle then the grave, expect sugary ballads advising on the tying of laces and love songs minus the bile with shamelessly Libertines-esque "woah ohs"
"With their swooshing swathes of rainbow rock, The Hugs are further
proof that someone’s certainly putting something in the water in Portland, Oregon.
Like The Lemonheads but with more primal yelping, the moment when their retro-referencing tunes seem to be veering too much in a pleasant, palatable garage-punk direction, their teeny weeny frontman Danny Delegato – the lovechild of Noel Fielding and one of The Monkees – lets go a grave-spinning, throat-slashing screech before indulging in some energetic and muscle-tearing mic-robatics."
-NME
http://www.nme.com/reviews/the-view/9365
"The Hugs are a four-piece rock ’n’ roll band from Portland, Oregon, who recorded their debut album in England. This makes sense because their music sounds British—not “Greensleeves” British, but rather the brand of British that became popular when groups like The Kinks and The Yardbirds invaded America in the mid-’60s with their ramshackle lyrics and bluesy riffs. The Hugs’s music, though, is also very Oregonian, owing an equal debt to home-state forerunners like “Louie Louie” auteurs The Kingsmen and the late-’70s pre-grunge grunge outfit the Wipers.
-Interview Magazine
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/the-hugs/
"You can put that NME cover on hold for now, as their rise to stardom will, at best, be a slow and gradual ascent. But under the floppy bangs and slouched teenage shoulders lies a group of kids on the cusp of something great. Much like the early forbearers of the jangly Brit-rock sound, the Hugs have a loose charm, a perfectly content sense of confidence that permeates throughout their sound, no matter how sloppy it might be at the time. Their music has the rough kinetic energy of Slanted and Enchanted-era Pavement, and the haphazard punk of (pre-crack and tabloids) the Libertines."
"Local buzz band The Hugs are self-releasing their own debut album tonight (May 2007). The self-titled effort by these teenage Anglophiles shows a band wise beyond their years, and one keen on producing bouncy pop songs heavy on the hooks and melody."
"The Hugs are the band that you wish you were in during high school. Or college. Or right now for that matter. Visceral and earnest, their songs are further along than their playing, and that's a good thing. Everything from the Velvet Underground to the Kinks to early Pavement is here, all being written by chaps young enough to yet worry about declaring a major. Unless, of course, it's declaring which major label they want to sign to."
-Portland Mercury
http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=309699&category=22153
"Once they’ve been given the green light, the band hustles into the venue like a group of thirsty claim-jumpers, untangling cords and hollering impenetrable teen-speak. Each stylistically disparate member looks vaguely like daytime television’s idea of a rock-’n’-roll persona: the well-groomed twee kid, the smoking psychedelic kid, the Converse-clad “alternative” kid. Frontman Danny Delegato is the Guns N’ Roses-era caricature, his oversized sleeveless shirt and cowboy hat dwarfing his boyish frame. When asked to check his mic, he lets out a howl that dovetails into a squeal."
"Drummer Kelly McKenzie absolutely kills—probably the most entertaining member of a very entertaining band—even if his thrashing can’t keep the rest of the band from wandering into the occasional rock-’n’-roll disaster. He tries repeatedly to end the band’s seemingly endless final song (which came complete with dangerous mic-stand-wielding and a Hendrix-style collapse or two) with little success."
"Though members of the Hugs were just graduating high school when they formed in 2007, they still managed to expertly cultivate an experienced sound. Seemingly inspired in equal parts by the Kinks' The Village Green Preservation Society and more modern Detroit bands such as the Go, we are given a perfect contemporary interpretation of the '60s British pop sound. The Hugs were snatched up last year by an English producer for their self-titled album, so we should all do ourselves a favor and see this band before they're exported to Europe to make it big."
-Willamette Weekly
http://localcut.wweek.com/2007/06/06/the-hugs-at-dantes-may-31-2007/
"The Hugs reminded me of a lot of things right off the bat. Danny Delegato (Vocals/Guitars) looked very similar to a young Ben Kweller with his floppy ears hat. In the sound department, The Hugs fall into the category of The View, and The Kooks. The difference is that The Hugs hail from Portland, Oregon instead of the United Kingdom. It was no surprise later that I find out that the band is heading off to England for a handful of shows in order to break out in the U.K. before coming back across the pond."
-LA (Opening for The Walkmen @ The Troubadour)
While most musical careers progress in something of a straight line, the Hugs’ rise to prominence has developed like a Rorschach test committed to paper by a Parkinson’s victim during a sneezing fit. The Hugs’ four members had scarcely graduated from Cleveland High School when they were plucked by globe spanning tastemaker James Endeacott (mastermind of such ne’er do wells as the Strokes and the Libertines) to help headline the roster of his emerging 1969 Records. Since that bit of good fortune, the band has split its time between a beat-up Northwest house here in the states and the near-legendary Toe-Rag studios over in England. Having just completed work on a European debut LP with producer Liam Watson (the White Stripes, etc.) the band is looking to assault the Continent later this spring with an extensive tour. However, prior to that instance of globe hopping, the Hugs are returning to their place of origin to play a string of hometown shows while they gather steam for another attempt at world domination, this time spearheaded by a second LP set to be recorded next fall in Los Angeles (“the big one” according to front man Danny Delegato). I don’t really know if the Hugs can even be counted as a “Portland” band at this point, but this fair city is at the very least an important dot on the complicated map of early success. So catch the band this weekend as they pay homage to their roots with a homecoming show at the Doug Fir. Just catch them while you can because, if the past is any indication, they won’t be staying in this—or any one place—for very long. The Hugs, Deepest Darkest, and the Upsidedown play Doug Fir on Saturday, Dec. 20. 9 pm. $8. 21+.
-Shane Danaher (December 2008)
Hug it out - On the cusp of stardom, The Hugs feel the loveBy Shane DanaherPublished: Tuesday, October 23, 2007Updated: Monday, July 14, 2008 Danny Delegato is 18. It has been less than a year since he graduated from Cleveland High School, and next month his band, The Hugs, will embark on a U.S. tour supporting the internationally acclaimed Walkmen.After that, they will be flying to England to meet with possible producers for their debut LP on the formidable 1965 Records, a release that is sure to involve a world tour. For the moment though, Delegato is sitting in his house on Northwest Lovejoy Street, getting ready to play a string of basement shows that may prove to be the band's last hurrah in an insular Portland scene that they are, regrettably, about to outgrow.The Hugs' road to their current breakout status traces back several years to when Delegato and his friend Kelly Mckenzie began writing fuzzy pop songs for performance in the dive-iest of Portland clubs. Playing lousy shows to small audiences, Delegato began to hone his songcraft, and eventually parted from Mckenzie to pursue the formation of what would become The Hugs.Despite their somewhat noxious reputation for having eschewed the norms of the Portland music community, Delegato and crew were devout followers of the tight-knit indie-rock culture. They pulled inspiration from the sounds that populated their early high school years, and have created a unique sound that defies so narrow a definition as "retro."Even on The Hugs' earliest recordings, it is apparent that the group possesses a gift for swagger that cannot be taught--which has only grown since their formation. Prior to their association with 1965 Records, The Hugs had a propensity for mining inspiration from the 1960s and that sound can be heard in their music to this day.Sing-along melodies and fuzz-blasted guitars create a healthy approximation of pop circa the middle of the century, and Delegato's songwriting mantra of "... really [thinking] about what people want to hear" pays off for the band as they craft tunes that wouldn't have been out of place at Woodstock.This songwriting aesthetic is what caught the eye of James Endeacott, legendary rock A&R man and the driving force behind the band's rapidly evolving career. Endeacott has helped engineer the rise of The Strokes and Libertines, something he hopes to continue with The Hugs.With the full support offered by his 1965 label, The Hugs have the chance to become the "next big thing" on an international scale, an opportunity that has been embraced by the band but has also brought uncharacteristic pressure to the group of 18-year-old musicians.A group that had trouble getting a show at the Towne Lounge a year ago now has to prove that thousands of dollars in major-label investment capital was not spent in vain, a daunting prospect that has the band working feverishly on developing new material for their first release with 1965.Despite the expectations being heaped on their commercial output, Delegato and his band have tried to remain involved in their hometown scene. Pulling opening slots for the Brian Jonestown Massacre and hosting basement shows at their new practice space on Lovejoy has helped the band feed off the "really good vibe" that Portland provides to upcoming musicians.Delegato states that his "… whole motivation and manifesto comes from Portland," and it is an unfortunate catch-22 of The Hugs' developing career that they will soon be compelled to leave their hometown behind in search of a wider fan base.Before their imminent departure, however, they are set to play a series of dates that will give Portlanders a chance to see their latest prodigal sons in the cramped basement clubs they know and love. This Friday at The Modern Age (located in The Food for Though Cafe), The Hugs will be putting on what is sure to be a sweaty, frenetic performance. The show starts at 9 p.m., and at $3 it's a tough offer to pass up. Also, The Hugs are kindly opening up their practice space on Lovejoy for a series of shows and parties that will continue up through the New Year. For more info check out www.myspace.com/thehugsgowildThe Hugs' future is hard to tell at this point. It is entirely possible that they will use their opportunities to the maximum effect and usher in a new age of psychedelia or become the transatlantic pop darlings who their label is betting on. There is also the looming option that their bubble will burst early and leave them stranded in record-industry limbo. Whatever the outcome though, their hometown will be happy to have played host to their inception and proven that, as Delegato puts it, "It's all about the love."-Shane Danaher (Vanguard PSU)http://www.dailyvanguard.com/2.4061/hug-it-out-on-the-cusp-of-stardom-the-hugs-feel-the-love-1.309678 (Someday Lounge, 125 NW 5th) The Hugs are the band that you wish you were in during high school. Or college. Or right now for that matter. Visceral and earnest, their songs are further along than their playing, and that's a good thing. Everything from the Velvet Underground to the Kinks to early Pavement is here, all being written by chaps young enough to yet worry about declaring a major. Unless, of course, it's declaring which major label they want to sign to, in which case the lucky winner is London-based 1965 records. Not quite a household name yet, the label is the lovechild of James Endeacott, formerly of Rough Trade records, who had the foresight to sign another young and eager band called the Strokes a few years back. Can the Hugs embrace their future as garage rock's next big thing? I, for one, sure do hope so. AY (Portland Mercury)
Kelly Foster McKenzie
Brendan Scott White Welch
Danny Richard Delegato Jr.
Nicholas Roy LoCascio
Photo By: Rachel Demy
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Current mood:  cooky/wacky
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
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Current mood: accomplished
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Monday, June 16, 2008
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Current mood: accomplished
Nicholas LoCascio= Guitar, Drums, Vocals  Kelly Mckenzie= Song-writing, Drums, Guitar, Bass, Vocals  Danny Delegato= Song-writing, Lead Vocals, Guitar, Bass  Brendan Welch= Bass, Guitar 
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Friday, February 15, 2008
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