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Mark Trombino

{{short description|American drummer}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

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| background = non_performing_personnel

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|5|23}}

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| occupation = Record producer, musician, audio engineer

| years_active = 1991–present

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Mark Trombino (born May 23, 1966) is an American multi-platinum record producer, musician, and audio engineer. He has produced, engineered, and mixed tracks for many artists including Jimmy Eat World, Blink-182, The Starting Line, Finch, Motion City Soundtrack, and All Time Low.[http://www.themarshalltown.com/zine/2003/06/02/tears-of-our-tracks-an-interview-with-mark-trombino/ "Allmusic.com"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020104747/http://www.themarshalltown.com/zine/2003/06/02/tears-of-our-tracks-an-interview-with-mark-trombino/ |date=2013-10-20 }}, retrieved March 17, 2012 As a drummer, he recorded and toured with Drive Like Jehu, aMiniature, Night Soil Man, and First Offense.David Walter [http://www.themarshalltown.com/zine/2003/06/02/tears-of-our-tracks-an-interview-with-mark-trombino/ "Tears of Our Tracks: An Interview With Mark Trombino"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020104747/http://www.themarshalltown.com/zine/2003/06/02/tears-of-our-tracks-an-interview-with-mark-trombino/ |date=2013-10-20 }}, The Marshalltown, June 2, 2003, retrieved March 17, 2012

Since 2013 Trombino has been active in the boutique food space, running a donut shop called "Donut Friend" in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.{{cite web|title=Donut Friend, a New Gourmet Donut Shop in HP|url=https://la.eater.com/2013/5/2/6440987/donut-friend-a-new-gourmet-donut-shop-in-hp|publisher=Eater (which owns Eater.com)|access-date=February 2, 2021|author-first=Kat|author-last=Odell|date=May 2, 2013}} In 2019 a second location was opened in downtown Los Angeles.{{cite web|title=Donut Friend's New DTLA Location Opens Tuesday|url=https://vegoutmag.com/food-and-drink/donut-friends-new-dtla-location-opens-tuesday/|publisher=Vegout.com|access-date=February 2, 2021|author-first=Symphony|author-last=Barnes|date=January 21, 2019}} In January 2021, Trombino came under fire after an anonymous Twitter account claimed he terminated several employees for attempting to organize for better working conditions and form a union.{{cite web|title=Viral Tweet Claims LA's Donut Friend Fired Employees for Trying to Unionize|url=https://la.eater.com/2021/1/22/22242875/donut-friend-los-angeles-union-unionize-tweet-boycot-fired-highland-park-news|publisher=Eater (which owns Eater.com)|access-date=January 26, 2021|author-first=Farley|author-last=Elliott|date=January 21, 2021}}

Selected discography

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Artist

! Title

! Label

! Role

1991

| Drive Like Jehu

| Drive Like Jehu

| Headhunter Records

| Drums, composer, producer

1994

| Heavy Vegetable

| Amazing Undersea Adventures of Aqua Kitty and Friends

| Headhunter Records

| Producer, engineer, mixer

1994

| Garden Variety

| Knocking the Skill Level

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer

1994

| Drive Like Jehu

| Yank Crime

| Interscope Records

| Mixer, engineer, drums

1994

| Drip Tank

| Sprawl

| Headhunter Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1995

| Sinkhole

| Space Freak

| Dr. Strange Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1995

| Swivelneck

| Baby Cry Cry

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer, engineer

1995

| Tanner

| Ill Gotten Gains

| Headhunter Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1995

| aMiniature

| Murk Time Cruiser

| Restless Records

| Mixer, engineer, drums

1995

| Heavy Vegetable

| Frisbee

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer, engineer

1995

| Boilermaker

| Watercourse

| Goldenrod Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1995

| Rocket from the Crypt

| Scream, Dracula, Scream!

| Interscope Records

| Mixer, engineer

1995

| Carlos

| Amy Armageddon

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer, engineer

1996

| Chune

| Big Hat, No Cattle

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer, engineer

1996

| Wank

| Get a Grip on Yourself

| Warner Bros. Records

| Producer

1996

| Jimmy Eat World

| Static Prevails

| Capitol Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1996

| The PeeChees

| Do the Math

| Kill Rock Stars

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1996

| No Knife

| Drunk on the Moon

| Goldenrod Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1996

| Sinkhole

| Core Sample

| Ringing Ear Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1996

| Boilermaker

| In Wallace's Shadow

| Goldenrod Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1996

| Thumbnail

| Thumbnail

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer

1996

| Creedle

| When the Wind Blows

| Headhunter Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1997

| Boys Life

| Boys Life

| Crank! A Record Company

| Mixer, engineer

1997

| Crumbox

| Resident Double U

| Time Bomb Recordings

| Mixer, engineer

1997

| Go Dog Go

| Glad to be Unhappy

| Ichiban

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1997

| Knapsack

| Day Three of My New Life

| Alias Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1997

| Fluf

| Waikiki

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer, engineer

1997

| Blink-182

| Dude Ranch

| MCA Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer, keyboards

1997

| Thingy

| Songs About Angels, Evil, and Running Around on Fire

| Headhunter Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1997

| No Knife

| Hit Man Dreams

| Time Bomb Recordings

| Producer, mixer, engineer, keyboards

1997

| Three Mile Pilot

| Another Desert, Another Sea

| Headhunter Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1998

| The Specials

| Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!

| MCA Records

| Mixer

1998

| Fluf

| Road Rage

| Headhunter Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1998

| Mineral

| EndSerenading

| Crank! A Record Company

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1998

| Knapsack

| This Conversation is Ending Starting Right Now

| Alias Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1998

| Smile

| Girl Crushes Boy

| Atlantic Records

| Mixer, engineer, keyboards

1999

| Action League

| Interrupt This Program

| Vegas Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1999

| Jimmy Eat World

| Clarity

| Capitol Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer, keyboards, string arrangements

1999

| Husking Bee

| Put on Fresh Paint

| Doghouse

| Producer, mixer, engineer

1999

| The Hippos

| Heads Are Gonna Roll

| Interscope Records

| Producer, engineer

1999

| Helicopter

| Helicopter

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer

1999

| Sinkhole

| Retrospecticles

| Dr. Strange Records

| Mixer, engineer

1999

| Inch

| This Will Fall on Dead Ears

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer, engineer, keyboards, programming

2000

| Thingy

| To the Innocent

| Headhunter Records

| Mixer, engineer

2000

| Poor Rich Ones

| Happy Happy Happy

| Rec 90

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2000

| Midtown

| Save the World, Lose the Girl

| Drive-Thru Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2000

| Mock Orange

| The Record Play

| Lobster Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2000

| The Jealous Sound

| The Jealous Sound

| Better Looking Records

| Mixer

2000

| Weston

| Massed Alpert Sounds

| Mojo Records/Jive Records

| Mixer

2000

| Jebediah

| Of Someday Shambles

| Big Wheel Recreation

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2001

| Creeper Lagoon

| Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday

| DreamWorks SKG

| Producer, engineer

2001

| The Moffatts

| "Just Another Phase"

| EMI

| Mixer, engineer

2001

| Bad Astronaut

| Acrophobe

| Honest Don's

| Mixer

2001

| The Icarus Line

| Mono

| Crank! A Record Company

| Engineer

2001

| Husking Bee

| Four Color Problem

| Doghouse

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2001

| Jimmy Eat World

| Bleed American

| Geffen Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer, programming

2001

| Boilermaker

| Leucadia

| Better Looking Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2002

| Ash

| Intergalactic Sonic 7″s

| Sony Music

| Mixer

2002

| Finch

| What It Is to Burn

| Drive-Thru Records/MCA

| Producer, mixer, engineer, programming

2002

| Midtown

| Living Well is the Best Revenge

| Drive-Thru Records/MCA

| Producer, mixer, engineer, programming

2002

| Stickfigure

| Ape of the Kings

| What Are Records?

| Mixer

2002

| Magna-Fi

| Burn Out the Stars

| Gold Circle Records

| Mixer

2002

| The Starting Line

| Say It Like You Mean It

| Drive-Thru Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2003

| Gob

| Foot in Mouth Disease

| Arista

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2003

| Something Corporate

| Songs for Silent Movies

| Drive-Thru Records/MCA

| Producer

2003

| Diffuser

| Making the Grade

| Hollywood Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer, drums

2003

| The Living End

| Modern Artillery

| Reprise Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2003

| Val Emmich

| Val Emmich

| Epic Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2003

| Sugarcult

| Palm Trees and Power Lines

| Fearless Records

| Mixer

2003

| Rilo Kiley

| More Adventurous

| Barsuk Records

| Producer, engineer

2004

| Denver Harbor

| Scenic

| Universal Records

| Producer, engineer, mixer, programming

2004

| Jimmy Eat World

| Believe in What You Want

| Interscope Records

| Mixer

2004

| Jimmy Eat World

| Futures

| Interscope Records

| Producer, engineer

2004

| Reeve Oliver

| Reeve Oliver

| The Militia Group

| Mixer

2005

| Motion City Soundtrack

| Commit This to Memory

| Epitaph Records

| Mixer

2005

| Gyroscope

| Are You Involved?

| Festival Mushroom Records

| Producer

2005

| The Bled

| Found in the Flood

| Vagrant Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2005

| Jimmy Eat World

| Stay on My Side Tonight

| Interscope Records

| Producer, engineer

2005

| Social Code

| A Year at the Movies

| Interscope Records

| Mixer

2006

| Madina Lake

| From Them, Through Us, To You

| Roadrunner Records

| Producer, engineer, mixer

2006

| Rock Kills Kid

| Are You Nervous?

| Reprise Records

| Producer, engineer

2007

| I Hate Kate

| Embrace the Curse

| Glass Note Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2007

| Silverstein

| Arrivals & Departures

| Victory Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2007

| Pinback

| Autumn of the Seraphs

| Touch & Go Records

| Mixer

2007

| Moving Units

| Hexes for Exes

| Metropolis Records

| Engineer

2007

| Steel Train

| Trampoline

| Drive-Thru Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2008

| Alive in Wild Paint

| Ceilings

| Equal Vision Records

| Producer, engineer

2008

| Socratic

| Spread the Rumors

| Drive-Thru Records

| Mixer

2008

| Sing It Loud

| Come Around

| Epitaph Records

| Mixer

2009

| The Audition

| Self-Titled Album

| Victory Records

| Producer, engineer, mixer

2010

| Valencia

| Dancing with a Ghost

| I Surrender Records

| Producer, Mixer

2010

| Steel Train

| Steel Train

| Terrible Thrills

| Mixer

2010

| Jimmy Eat World

| Invented

| Interscope Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2011

| All Time Low

| Dirty Work

| Geffen/Hopeless Records

| Mixer

2012

| Tonight Alive

| What Are You So Scared Of?

| Fearless Records

| Producer, mixer, engineer

2013

| The Wonder Years

| The Greatest Generation

| Hopeless Records

| Mixer

Accomplishments

class="wikitable sortable"
Band

! Album/single

! RIAA Certification

Blink-182

| Dude Ranch

| Platinum

Jimmy Eat World

| Bleed American

| Platinum

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • [http://allmusic.com/artist/mark-trombino-p219915/credits/date-asc/ AllMusic]
  • [https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?content_selector=gold-platinum-searchable-database RIAA.com]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020104747/http://www.themarshalltown.com/zine/2003/06/02/tears-of-our-tracks-an-interview-with-mark-trombino/ Tears of our Tracks]
  • [http://la.eater.com/archives/2013/05/02/donut_friend_a_new_gourmet_donut_shop_in_hp.php/ Eater.com]

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Category:1966 births

Category:Living people

Category:American record producers

Category:Drive Like Jehu members

Category:American people of Italian descent

Category:Jimmy Eat World

Category:American rock drummers

Category:Punk rock record producers

Category:20th-century American drummers

Category:American male drummers