Oct 12, 2021
I didn’t start writing songs I was proud of until I was 30. Before that, it was all trial and mostly error. Trying to write like Waits. Or Lucinda. Or Bruce. The songs that came out were possibly charming, possibly even interesting, and definitely derivative. In trying to find my own voice, there was always…
Sep 15, 2021
Look! Here we are playing instruments! Real ones! In the same room! This happened last week, when we did this strange thing we haven’t done much ever, called ‘rehearsing’, ahead of our first show since Lord-knows-when next week in DC. We didn’t sound half-bad, and will be releasing so much pent-up energy at our favorite…
Jul 08, 2021
For some strange reason, we haven’t played a show since 2019. Naseem did a livestream thing from his basement, but because he was not able to awkwardly and madly hop around on a stage, it hardly counts. As we wipe the dust off our instruments and blankly stare at them like cave-dwellers examining fire, we’re not 100%…
Jan 20, 2021
Matt V. was our biggest supporter and greatest friend. I think about him often: when I put a scratchy record on, when I (often) eat too much ice cream, when I make fun of Coors Light while drinking Coors Light. Here’s a little thing I threw together for him on this, what would’ve been his…
Jul 05, 2020
It’s the 5th of July and, hey, we’ve got a song about that. Very much inspired by my own family, my wife’s family, and a naturalization ceremony I went to a few years back, where people who had worked their butts off for years to become US citizens finally accomplished their goal. I remember being…