Chris Dugan


Chris Dugan is an American audio engineer, cinematographer, record producer, musician, and singer, best known as the drummer of the Effection and as an audio engineer for Green Day. In 2018, along with Green Day members Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt, guitarist Jason White, and tour manager Bill Schneider, he formed the Coverups, for which he plays drums.

History

Dugan began his musical pursuits as a drummer. Needing to be resourceful, he learned to do basic recordings for his high school bands. Engineering was an instinctual progression and it was the purist recording styles of the '60s and '70s that really inspired him. In 1996, he opened Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, California, with fellow engineer Willie Samuels, renting space from local Studio 880 in Oakland. Nu-Tone quickly became an indie band favorite, drawing the local rock scene and labels like Lookout!, Adeline, and Alternative Tentacles. In 2002, Dugan began engineering for Green Day at Jingletown Recording. In 2003, the Effection, with Dugan as the band's drummer, released the album Soundtrack to a Moment via Adeline Records. In 2009, he won his first Grammy with Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown for Best Rock Album.
Dugan currently resides in Oakland, California. In August 2013, he married Mari Tanaka, Jingletown Recording's studio manager.

Projects

Dugan has worked with bands such as U2, Iggy Pop, Green Day, and Smash Mouth. He has also worked with producers Rob Cavallo, Butch Vig, Bob Ezrin, and Jeff Saltzman. In 2009, he won the Grammy for Best Rock Album of the Year for engineering Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown. In 2010, he won the Grammy for Best Musical Show Album for engineering Green Day’s American Idiot: The Original Broadway Cast Recording.

Partial discography

YearArtistReleaseProducerEngineerMixing
2024Pinhead GunpowderUnt
2024The Dopamines80/20
2024Green Day"Saviors"
2024LiilyMORE
2023The Gaslight AnthemHistory Books
2022Warhorse
2022WeezerSZNZ: Autumn
2021The WallflowersExit Wounds
2020Alanis MorissetteSuch Pretty Forks In The Road
2020Matt NathansonLive in Paradise: Boston
2020Green DayFather of All...
2018Swingin' UttersPeace and Love
2016Green DayRevolution Radio
2014Green DayDemolicious
2014Swingin' UttersFistful Of Hollow
2013Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah JonesForeverly
2012Green Day¡Uno!
2012Green Day¡Dos!
2012Green Day¡Tré!
2011Green DayAwesome As Fuck
2010American Idiot Broadway Cast & Green DayAmerican Idiot – Original Broadway Cast Recording
2009Green Day21st Century Breakdown
2009Green DayLast Night on Earth: Live in Tokyo
2008Foxboro Hot TubsStop Drop and Roll!!!
2007LillixInside The Hollow
2006U2 and Green DayThe Saints Are Coming
2006Smash MouthSummer Girl
2004Green DayAmerican Idiot
2004Lars Frederiksen & the BastardsViking
2003The NetworkMoney Money 2020
2003Iggy PopSkull Ring
2002The EnemiesSeize The Day
2002The FrustratorsAchtung Jackass

Other work

  • 2009 - Video: - Green Day - "East Jesus Nowhere" - Director, Camera, Photography
  • 2012 - Video: - Green Day - Awesome As Fuck - Director