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Zoo Show - Rehearsal Takes

For those of you hungering for even more Zoo Show material, here's a recording of a "dress rehearsal" we ran a week before the show so John could practice mixing the current arrangements. (Is this the best way to upload multiple audio tracks?) Some of these might have turned out even better in this "laid back" rehearsal space environment.

Engineered & mixed by John McRae.

July's streaming schedule will be posted shortly, thanks for your patience.

Archive Sunday #57

AK: the vacations continue for Andrew with a trip to Thailand where many a great foods were consumed. We also ate durian which has the consistency of what I assume rotten human flesh feels like. It's so smelly they give you gloves to wear while you touch it. 10/10 would not eat again. The durian candy is tasty though.

Then back to Seattle to record the NYI music video. It was a fun shoot day at a small location by the water. Besides painting the set there really wasn't much to do so I w...

Archive Sunday #56

AK: The Boys Go On Break! After a massive run of shows we get a much deserved gap in touring. Will was off to Chicago to help work on Stef Chura’s album and I was doing a bunch of random shit like growing weed in my closet, building a pc, football games, and traveling to Vegas. It was time to blow off steam and spend time with friends I hadn’t seen in months, all with a little extra cash in the pocket!

WT:

Around this time, we finally wrapped up work on Twin Fantasy...

July Newsletter

It happened - that much I can say for sure! On June 20th, we played our first show as a band since Covid knocked me off my feet for the latter half of 2022. We played on a beautiful evening at the Seattle Zoo, to a crowd of four thousand, I’m told. Andrew painted onstage, Mortis’s twin brother Leo danced in the crowd, and we played for almost two hours.

In the days after the show, I’ll come up often against the question of “how did it feel?” If I’m being honest, how it made ...

Archive Sunday #55

   After a short break we grabbed another flight, but thankfully this time it was much closer to home. So we were initially booked to play the renowned Austin City Limits Festival, but because it's spread out over two weekends much like Coachella we scheduled a short run around the area to fill in the gap. Around that time it was kinda tough partly because we were competing for the same type of venues with a bunch of bands at the festival in the same boat. Especially considerin...

Ethan's Saturday Stream Hangout 6/29

Modelling weird little guys! Maybe making some textures! I just ate some spinach!

Seth and Andrew JAM STREAM

come jam

Archive Sunday Stream

Let's Archive!

Woodland Park Zoo, 6/20/24: Board Mix

engineered by John McRae

Will Toledo - guitar, vocals

Andrew Katz - drums, vocals

Ethan Ives - guitar, vocals

Seth Dalby - bass

Ben Roth - keys

June stream update update

Apologies for the late change, but due to some scheduling mixups, the performance stream will take place as originally announced on Friday, June 28, at 4 PM PST, with just Seth and Andrew.

Ethan will lead this month's Band's Delight Stream on Saturday, June 29, at 4 PM PST, sharing art and chatting.

Archive Sunday #54

  In familiar fashion we traveled north from Paris through the English channel to get to London. Luckily this time we had a day off in the schedule mostly to break up too many back-to-back shows. So we got to the Forum in London in the evening the day before, a little too late to find something cool to get into. We parked the bus in the parking lot behind the venue, and planned to just camp out there for the night until we could get inside the next morning. I remember Andrew and I w...

June Streams: Update

Ethan has joined the mix for performing this month! Ethan, Seth and Andrew will now be playing on June 29th at 4 PM PST (not the 28th as previously announced).

June Streams

This month's performance stream will feature Andrew and Seth playing live at our practice space! Tune in June 28 at 4 PM PST.

Our Archive Sunday stream will happen for the higher tiers on June 25 at 4 PM PST.

Archive Sunday #53

  Picking back up in Hamburg, I realized I forgot to mention some stuff. First off we made a short trip to a sweet little music shop to fix one of the guitar amps. Luc had been there before, so he was pretty sure they could help us out. They had a bunch of cool old Sunn amps we checked out while we waited, and I ended up buying this Bespeco foot switch pedal to replace mine that broke a few shows before. It's definitely an Italian knockoff of the famous Roland design that is super ...

June Newsletter: Big Dog Reveal

It’s Pride month again, and I’d like to tell you all about something which has been giving me some pleasure this year, an unexpected source of comfort: I got a new fursona. As fun as it has been suiting as Mortis, something about it has never quite clicked with me. He is a character I like, but a character that doesn’t feel exactly me. For years I had noodled quietly with the idea of a dog character, and with some help, a new fursona manifested itself on the screen. And this ti...

Archive Sunday #52

   The day after the Porto show, we hopped on an early plane to Paris, France much to Ethan's dismay. There we were scheduled to meet up with a rented tour bus, so that we could travel long distances overnight while we slept. This would allow us to bridge the gap between spread-out festivals and venues and offset the extra cost with the added savings from hotel rooms. So we landed in Paris and went to arrivals to meet our bus driver. I remember it took us a second to meet up, b...

Summer State of Affairs

Summer's greetings! A full newsletter for June is being prepped, but (as you may have noticed) will be a bit delayed.

On that note, I wanted to give a heads up about the next few months. With a few shows on the horizon and an album to finish, our schedules will be a bit packed in June and July. I will likely pass the solo stream for at least one of the months to one of the other members of CSH. I would like to perform the other stream, but it might be a bit more off-the-cuff than usual,...

Archive Sunday #51

  After the long journey to Ypsigrock in Castelbuono we were stunned by the allure of the quaint little town as we navigated the winding narrow streets with the only parking designated to the sidewalks. It seemed like an unusual spot for the type of festival that would normally take place in a large field, and quite far from a major population center. But the reasonable prices probably set up the little town as a weekend destination for a bunch of music fans in Sicily. We got there ...

Band Delight Stream with Andrew

Let's Delight!

Band's Delight: Surprise Stream with Andrew

Tune in tomorrow at 3 PM PST! What's he streaming? I don't know, he didn't tell me. I'm sure it'll be fun!

Archive Sunday #50

   Right after Lollapalooza we had about a week before our next run of shows that was scheduled to start back up again in Finland. We all had differing opinions on how best to spend the time in between, so we split off to do our own thing for a bit. Ethan missed the comforts of home, so he went back to recharge and spend valuable time with friends. Will took advantage of ending the run in Chicago, and took the time to visit family and friends around there and then in Northern V...

Solo Stream (For Real This Time)

Last one was accidentally public.

May Solo Stream - MBIKMB

Trainwreck Sunday

trains

Archive Sunday #49

   Towards the end of June we were offered one of the slots to play Brown's Island for the summer concert series held in my hometown of Richmond, VA. I was probably a lot more excited than anyone else considering I went there a bunch as a kid to see acts like Bio Ritmo and Toots and the Maytals after many long days of swimming in the nearby river. It also gave us the chance to catch up with Will Marsh and the Gold Connections that were living there at the time. We caught up wit...

Archive Sunday #48

   Right after Bonnaroo, we went back to our home base in Seattle to prepare for a summer jam-packed with festivals and one-off shows. First up on the docket was an awesome opportunity to play one of the coolest venues ever, Red Rocks. I remember growing up listening to bands like Incubus that would release live recordings of their shows there, and seeing pictures of the stage that seemed like it was effortlessly carved between these giant sandstone slabs. So naturally we jumpe...

May Streams

Greetings!

This month's solo stream will take place May 24th at 4 PM PST and will highlight songs from My Back Is Killing Me Baby, perhaps with a few outtakes from the era.

The archive stream will be the day before that, May 23 at 4 PM PST.

See you there!

Archive Sunday #47

   From Virginia we headed south to the tri-city area of North Carolina. We were slotted to play at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro just outside of the college town of Chapel Hill. It was an awesome long and narrow room that got a ton of great acts, but more importantly it was right next to this delicious burrito spot Carrboro Burrito. I'm pretty sure I had been there before when I used to take the train down to visit my brother who lived there for a year or two. But yeah, it didn...

April Stream: Covers

an mp3 archive of last month's stream.

May Newsletter: Practicing

On our archive stream the other day, in response to a question about tips for beginner musicians, I said something about practicing what you’re good at to bolster your self-esteem, and then moving on to practicing what you’re less competent in. I think my own natural gift has always been in ‘intuitive discernment’ - in other words, being able to tell on a gut level what’s good and what’s bad. I have posts on forums from high school, back in the era where I’d bash out a song in a...