Soul Coughing was a popular New York-based alternative rock band. The band found modest mainstream success during the mid-to-late 1990s. Soul Coughing developed a devout fanbase and have garnered largely positive response from critics. Steve Huey in Allmusic describes the band as "one of the most unusual cult bands of the 1990s driven by frontman Mike Doughty's stream-of-consciousness poetry, Soul Coughing's sound was a willfully idiosyncratic mix of improvisational jazz grooves, oddball samples, hip-hop, electronics, and noisy experimentalism ." Mike Doughty was a folk singer , slam poet,... sometime music writer, and doorman at the old Houston Street location of The Knitting Factory, then a nexus for such avant-garde artists as John Zorn and Marc Ribot. He put the band together from instrumentalists he met as they came through the club.
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| Career began: | 1993 |
| Career ended: | 2000 |
| Members: | Mike Doughty, Sebastian Steinberg, Mark De Gli Antoni, Yuval Gabay |
| Hometown: | New York City |
| Also known as: | Soul Coughing |