Chris Dugan

Chris Dugan (born May 11, 1973) 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

Year Artist Release Producer Engineer Mixing2024Pinhead Gunpowder Unt The Dopamines 80/20 Green Day "Saviors" Liily MORE (single) 2023 The Gaslight Anthem History Books (Expanded Edition) 2022Charger Warhorse Weezer SZNZ: Autumn 2021The WallflowersExit Wounds2020 Alanis Morissette Such Pretty Forks In The Road Matt Nathanson Live in Paradise: Boston Green Day Father of All... 2018 Swingin' Utters Peace and Love 2016 Green Day Revolution Radio 2014 Green Day Demolicious Swingin' Utters Fistful Of Hollow 2013 Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones Foreverly 2012 Green Day ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! 2011 Green Day Awesome As Fuck 2010 American Idiot Broadway Cast & Green Day American Idiot – Original Broadway Cast Recording 2009 Green Day 21st Century Breakdown Last Night on Earth: Live in Tokyo 2008 Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!! 2007 Lillix Inside The Hollow 2006 U2 and Green Day The Saints Are Coming Smash Mouth Summer Girl 2004 Green Day American Idiot Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards Viking 2003 The Network Money Money 2020 Iggy Pop Skull Ring 2002 The Enemies Seize The Day The Frustrators Achtung Jackass

Other work 2009 – Video: – Green Day – "East Jesus Nowhere" – Director, Camera, Photography 2012 – Video: – Green Day – Awesome As Fuck – Director