Mike Mogis’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Michael Riley “Mike” Mogis (born May 16, 1974) is an American producer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who, along with his brother A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Studios (previously known as Dead Space Recording and, earlier, Whoopass Recording). Mogis currently runs ARC (Another Recording Company) in downtown Omaha.

Mike has engineered, produced, and performed in many of the releases on the Saddle Creek label, including records by Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, The Good Life, Lullaby for the Working Class, Jenny Lewis, Tilly and the Wall and Elizabeth & The Catapult. He is also producing an album for Rachael Yamagata.

He has become a permanent member of Bright Eyes and was also a member of both Lullaby for the Working Class and We’d Rather Be Flying, generally playing guitar, although he also plays mandolin, banjo, pedal steel, glockenspiel, and hammered dulcimer, among other instruments. He worked with Lightspeed Champion (aka Devonte Hynes), former member of Test Icicles, on his debut album Falling Off the Lavender Bridge. He is a member of the supergroup Monsters of Folk.

He has two young daughters, Stella and Riley. Stella appeared on the Bright Eyes album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, with his wife Jessica.

In 2014, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, also of Bright Eyes, composed the soundtrack for The Fault in Our Stars, based on the novel of the same name by John Green.

Album appearances

see also albums by Bright Eyes.

1997

• Cursive – Such Blinding Stars for Starving Eyes (1997) – Crank! Records

1998

• Bright Eyes – Letting off the Happiness (1998) – Saddle Creek Records

1999

• Bright Eyes – Every Day and Every Night (1999) – Saddle Creek Records
• Amoree Lovell – The Burning Bush (1999) – Amoree Lovell

2000

• The Gloria Record – A Lull In Traffic (2000) – Crank! Records
• Bright Eyes – Fevers and Mirrors (2000) – Saddle Creek Records
• Cursive – Domestica (2000) – Saddle Creek Records
• Melon Galia – Les embarras du quotidien (2000) – Les disques mange-tout
• Songs: Ohia – Ghost Tropic (2000) – Secretly Canadian

2001

• Cursive – Burst and Bloom (2001) – Saddle Creek Records

2002

• The Gloria Record – Start Here (2002) – Arena Rock Recording Co.
• Bright Eyes – There Is No Beginning to the Story (2002) – Saddle Creek Records
• Bright Eyes – Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002) – Saddle Creek Records
• Cursive – 8 Teeth to Eat You (2002) – Better Looking Records
• My Little Cheap Dictaphone – Music Drama (2002) – Soundstation

2003

• Azure Ray – Hold On Love (2003) – Saddle Creek Records
• Cursive – The Ugly Organ (2003) – Saddle Creek Records
• Rilo Kiley – The Execution of All Things (2003) – Saddle Creek Records

2004

• Azure Ray – New Resolution (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• Bright Eyes – Lua (Single) (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• Bright Eyes – Take It Easy (Love Nothing) (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• Bright Eyes/Neva Dinova – One Jug of Wine, Two Vessels (2004) – Crank! Records
• Broken Spindles – fulfilled/complete (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• Cursive – The Recluse (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• The Elected – Me First (2004) – Sub Pop
• The Faint – Wet from Birth (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• The Faint – I Disappear (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• The Good Life – Album of the Year (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• Johnathan Rice – Extended Player 24:26 (2004) – Reprise/WEA
• Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous (2004) – Brute/Beaute Records
• The Saddest Landscape – Lift Your Burdens High for This is Where We Cross (2004)
• Son, Ambulance – Key (2004) – Saddle Creek Records
• Statistics – Leave Your Name (2004) – Jade Tree Records

2005

• Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005) · Saddle Creek Records
• Bright Eyes – Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005) – Saddle Creek Records
• Bright Eyes – Motion Sickness (2005) – Team Love Records
• Johnathan Rice – Trouble Is Real (2005) – Reprise/WEA
• Johnathan Rice – Kiss Me Goodbye (2005)
• Son, Ambulance – Key (2005) – Saddle Creek Records
• Maria Taylor – 11:11 (2005) – Saddle Creek Records

2006

• The Concretes – The Concretes in Colour (2006) – Astralwerks
• Cursive – Happy Hollow (2006) – Saddle Creek Records
• Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat (2006) – Team Love Records
• Men, Women & Children – Men, Women & Children (2006) – Reprise/WEA
• M. Ward – Post-War (2006) – Merge Records

2007

• Bright Eyes – Four Winds (2007) – Saddle Creek
• Bright Eyes – Cassadaga (2007) – Saddle Creek

2008

• Lightspeed Champion – Falling Off the Lavender Bridge (2008) – Domino Recording Company
• She and Him – Volume One (2008) – Merge Records
• Tilly and the Wall – o (2008) – Team Love Records
• Rachael Yamagata – Elephants…Teeth Sinking into Heart (2008) – Warner Bros. Records

2009

• Alessi’s Ark – Notes from the Treehouse (2009) – EMI Records
• M. Ward – Hold Time (2009) – Merge Records
• Pete Yorn – Back and Fourth (2009) – Columbia Records
• Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk (2009) – Shangri-La Music
• Sea Wolf – White Water, White Bloom (2009) – Dangerbird Records
• Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young (2009) – Cult Records via RCA

2010

• She and Him – Volume Two (2010) – Merge Records

2011

• Bright Eyes – The People’s Key (2011) – Saddle Creek
• Man Man – Life Fantastic (2011)

2012

• First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar (2012)

2014

• First Aid Kit – Stay Gold (2014)

2016

• Conor Oberst – Ruminations (2016) – Nonesuch Records
• Joseph – I’m Alone, No You’re Not (2016) – ATO Records
• Anthony D’Amato – Coldsnap (2016) – New West Records
• Ruston Kelly – Halloween (2016) – Razor & Tie/Washington Square