# 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 |
| 2024 | Pinhead Gunpowder | Unt |
| 2024 | The Dopamines | 80/20 |
| 2024 | Green Day | "Saviors" |
| 2024 | Liily | MORE (single) |
| 2023 | The Gaslight Anthem | History Books (Expanded Edition) |
| 2022 | Charger | Warhorse |
| 2022 | Weezer | SZNZ: Autumn |
| 2021 | The Wallflowers | Exit Wounds |
| 2020 | Alanis Morissette | Such Pretty Forks In The Road |
| 2020 | Matt Nathanson | Live in Paradise: Boston |
| 2020 | Green Day | Father of All... |
| 2018 | Swingin' Utters | Peace and Love |
| 2016 | Green Day | Revolution Radio |
| 2014 | Green Day | Demolicious |
| 2014 | Swingin' Utters | Fistful Of Hollow |
| 2013 | Billie Joe Armstrong & Norah Jones | Foreverly |
| 2012 | Green Day | ¡Uno! |
| 2012 | Green Day | ¡Dos! |
| 2012 | Green Day | ¡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 |
| 2009 | Green Day | 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 |
| 2006 | Smash Mouth | Summer Girl |
| 2004 | Green Day | American Idiot |
| 2004 | Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards | Viking |
| 2003 | The Network | Money Money 2020 |
| 2003 | Iggy Pop | Skull Ring |
| 2002 | The Enemies | Seize The Day |
| 2002 | The Frustrators | Achtung Jackass |

## Other work

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