  mono puff is a new york city-based band and a side project of john flansburgh, one of the founding members of they might be giants. the main band consisted of flansburgh, the vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and songwriter; bassist hal cragin; and drummer steve calhoon of skeleton key, enon and pretendo.it's fun to steal liner notes various guest musicians supplemented the trio, notably mark feldman, yuval gabay (of soul coughing), ghost krabb, mary birdsong (as "sugar puff"), elina lÃ¶wensohn, flansburgh's wife robin goldwasser (as "sister puff"), kate flannery (as "lady puff"), ammonia d, trini lopez, jay sherman-godfrey, jim o'connor, phil hernandez, frank london, eric schermerhorn, and mike viola. artwork for the band's albums and singles was done by flansburgh.unsupervised liner notesthe devil went down to newport [ep] liner notes currently, mono puff is on hiatus due to the relocation of some of the core members, though flansburgh has expressed interest in pursuing further recordings.john flansburgh's response to a question about mono puff on a blog administered by they might be giants ==discography== *john flansburgh's mono puff ep (1995) *unsupervised (1996) *the devil went down to newport ep (1996) *the hal cragin years ep (1996) *the steve calhoon years ep (1996) *it's fun to steal (1998) == references == 
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