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FIG MINTS

  • 09.03.08
    Biography: Fig Mints (Of Your Imagination) COZY HOME, FIG MINTS, INTERVIEWS, QUIXODELIC RECORDS | (3)
    FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION)Fig Mints is the brainchild of Bobby Rogan (real name "Pinky"), a band name that he flippantly coined to make fun of himself recording without a band, and he's been reluctantly stuck with ever since ("I had this idea to mix instrumental versions of my songs and do a self-styled karaoke with each "band member" having a part in the act that was prerecorded and very self-deprecating"). Unofficially coming into existence in the Spring of 2004 after moving into the actual Cozy Home on Henry Street, Utica NY - Bobby was inspired by the music and madness of that ...
  • 08.29.08
    Bobby On “The Passionate Misunderstanding” COZY HOME, FIG MINTS, INTERVIEWS, QUIXODELIC RECORDS | Comments Off
    "The Passionate Misunderstanding" That's what I should have called "Hugs and Smiles". It was a phrase uttered by my good friend Alan while talking indirectly about a situation that was happening in my life at the time, the gory details of which I have only shared with one other person. This situation was well documented in, though at times obscured by the language of the lyrics in most of the songs on "Hugs and Smiles". I was too chickenshit to call that album "The Passionate Misunderstanding". I though that the person that I wrote most of the songs about would find ...
  • 08.25.08
    Fig Mints (Of Your Imagination): The Passionate Misunderstanding COZY HOME, FIG MINTS, QUIXODELIC RECORDS, RELEASES | Comments Off
    Out Today!FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION)The Passionate MisunderstandingIn association with our brothers & sisters & weird cousins twice removed at www.cozyhomerecords.com we're grinning to present a seven-song slice of history available to download at your free & easy Quixodelic Record store right now so you can hear how it all began...JUST CLICK ON THE STORE LINK AT THE TOP OF THIS SITE
  • 08.25.08
    Review: FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION) – “The Passionate Misunderstanding” FIG MINTS, QUIXODELIC RECORDS, REVIEWS | (1)
    FIG MINTS (OF YOUR IMAGINATION) The Passionate Misunderstanding If record reviews were personality contests then anything from Fig Mint HQ would be greeted like a long-lost Beatles album, recorded in a sunkissed LSD-obliterated Bermuda triangle of a fortnight in the summer of 1967. And on the Quixodelic underground "The Passionate Misunderstanding" should be afforded the same treatment... roll out the red carpet, download it for free, make a little space in your life, hang onto your headphones and disappear down a tunnel of time, way back to before it even started. But we all know it doesn't work like that - the ...