Am I not allowing for enough Me time? I ask myself, as March winds to its busy end; as I prepare for my Patreon streams, and schedule meet-ups with friends, and look to resume band work; as the album process continues and upcoming performances approach...I fear losing myself. That’s the standard definition of introvert, right? Losing energy with social interactions, requiring solitude to recharge. And yet in recent years, I have watched as a subtle change took place within me....
2024-04-30 16:29:20 +0000 UTC
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2024-04-29 22:59:22 +0000 UTC
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I am so delighted
2024-04-29 20:55:42 +0000 UTC
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As we were heading back to the East Coast, we were super excited to hit up the 9:30 Club in D.C. Growing up in Virginia, I occasionally made the trip up to this venue to catch artists that couldn't make it to smaller markets down south. It's just one of those perfectly sized venues that almost always sounds good from the audience perspective, so naturally we were pretty stoked to have the opportunity to play there. We got there early to set up and were delighted to find specialty ...
2024-04-28 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Tune in on Monday, April 29 at 2pm pst as Andrew streams on Ableton for y'all.
Also: I've got a P.O. Box again! Send me mail at:
Will Barnes
P.O. Box 366
Medina, WA 98039
See you soon!
2024-04-23 19:19:00 +0000 UTC
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After a week or so off, we got ready for a bunch of festivals we had booked over the summer season. First up was one down in the middle of Atlanta called Shaky Knees. Not to be confused with Shaky Beats, which happened shortly afterwards and featured more EDM and electronic music. We arrived in Atlanta the day before and were excited to have some free time to check out the city. So we looked at all the attractions around where we were staying and planned a little band outing...
2024-04-21 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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After our show in Pioneertown, we had a day off till our next show at Coachella for its second weekend. It's rare for us to have any extra time in this part of the country as we typically do back-to-back shows in the Southwest and Southern California. But we were excited to use this opportunity to check out the national park we always passed on the road. So we got to Joshua Tree in the early afternoon and had plenty of time to hike and explore some of the cool rock formation...
2024-04-14 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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This month's solo stream will be: covers! Request anything you'd like me to hit in the comments here. The stream will take place Friday, April 26 at 4 PM PST.
Our Archive Sunday Stream will take place Monday, April 29 at 4 PM PST.
2024-04-09 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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For the rest of the week in California killing time between Coachella performances, we had a pretty full schedule. First up was another television performance on Conan's TBS talk show. It was such a trip driving through the Universal Studios lot dodging the golf cart tours and trailers full of potential famous actors. We got there before lunch, but not nearly as early as the 8am call times we experienced in New York. The backstage offices were packed with stage props and lined with cheesy...
2024-04-07 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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After a couple weeks off to recover from the European leg, we made our way down to California. We were super excited to get the chance to play Coachella and experience firsthand what the hype was about. We stayed maybe an hour away at a small-town motel the night before. I remember being a bit bummed we couldn't catch Radiohead and other sets Friday night, but fortunately there was a live-stream of most of the performances that we watched together in the motel room. I remember the coverage wa...
2024-03-31 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Go on, type something
2024-03-30 23:01:09 +0000 UTC
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The high priest questioned him, “Are you the anointed one [messiah], the son of the Blessed One?” “I am,” said Jesus, “And you will see the son of man sitting at the right hand of power and coming with the clouds of the heavens.” (Mark 14:61-62)
And they entered the tomb and saw a young man dressed in a white robe, sitting on the right side, and they were astonished. But he said to them, “Don't be astonished. You seek Jesus the Nazarene, who was cr...
2024-03-30 16:14:00 +0000 UTC
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Starting around 4 pst
2024-03-29 22:55:01 +0000 UTC
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The next day we drove west towards Switzerland. We got to the border crossing and quickly realized there was something wrong when there was a lengthy conversation in German between Luc and the border guard. Our paperwork was all in-order, but it turns out our van was much overweight for the Swiss regulations. We didn't have much time to spare, so we quickly unloaded the bass and guitar amp along with all of the merch to the side of the road. Kata graciously volunteered to wait it out with eve...
2024-03-24 13:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Spending this morning reading responses to yesterday's Biblical Wandering, and feeling deeply moved. I am so glad to get to connect with all of you on that level, to share vulnerability and pain and hear us all saying the same things.
Luckily, this week has been one of recovery for me, and I feel confident in scheduling a solo stream for next Friday, March 29th, at 4 PM PST. I'll be playing songs I wrote in high school, mainly from the "Nervous Young Men" archives, and ...
2024-03-22 15:21:27 +0000 UTC
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Then a paralytic was brought to him, carried by four. Since they were unable to get to him through the crowd, they uncovered the roof above him, made an opening, and lowered the paralytic on his mat. And Jesus saw their faith, and said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” (Mark 2:3-5)
And they were walking back in the morning, and saw the fig tree withered from the roots. Peter remembered and said, “Look, Rabbi! The fig tree you cursed has with...
2024-03-21 17:24:27 +0000 UTC
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We finished the month off with a few days in the studio to record more of Twin Fantasy (Face to Face). Pretty sure we worked on High to Death and Famous Prophets during our time there, along with some pieces of other stuff. We went back to the familiar studio where we knocked out most of Teens of Denial and met back up with Adam Stilson from Chicago to help with engineering and production. I remember at the time the studio was always on the verge of closing down to be redeveloped into condos ...
2024-03-17 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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“If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and enter into Gehenna: into the unquenchable fire, where the worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. If your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two feet and be cast into Gehenna: where the worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is ...
2024-03-14 16:49:41 +0000 UTC
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(My 'Biblical Wandering' will come out a bit later this week, so I figured I'd share this for a morning update. I have fallen a bit in love with MGMT's latest album, and wanted to dive deep into one of my favorite tracks on it.)
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This is what the gods must have been talking about
When they told me, "Nothing changes"
Falling through the Pleiades straight into a cloud
Wishing all the stars could save me
We enter straight...
2024-03-11 17:07:50 +0000 UTC
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So we woke up pretty groggy in this apartment style hotel in Sydney, and I remember wandering about the neighborhood to search for some coffee. Eventually I found a spot, but quickly noticed the chalkboard menu didn't include my usual order of an americano. I didn't want to seem like too much of a tourist, so I opted to copy all the people in front of me and order a flat white. I was pleasantly surprised when it was just a less foamy latte, and it kinda became my go-to when we were in Austral...
2024-03-10 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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(This is technically backtracking on our reading schedule, but I had an impulse to revisit this story this week.)
He left that place and went to the region of Tyre. (Tyre is the capital of Syro-Phoenicia, a region close to the settlements of Judea.) Not wanting anyone to know, he entered a house, but could not escape being noticed. Instead, a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. Now she was a Greek...
2024-03-04 18:49:26 +0000 UTC
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At the start of the new year we got offered to make another appearance at our local indie radio station KEXP. We were excited to come back with the four-piece lineup, and the hosts told us we were basically the first band to do a session in their newly built studio. It was all decked-out with these cool LED bulbs that replaced the old Christmas lights strung about in the previous room, plus the new room had a viewing area where a small audience could watch the show. I remember it being an ear...
2024-03-03 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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(For this month, I'm sharing my first foray into two-way prayer, or as Liz Gilbert calls them, "letters from love". You write the question, then wait to get written back to. I've continued this practice daily since this one.)
Love, what would you have me know today?
Today, when you typed this question out, you looked at it and cried. Or rather, you did your best attempt to try and cry, letting out sobbing breaths as you massaged your dry eyes. The only things that came up were: Th...
2024-03-01 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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2024-02-27 20:56:02 +0000 UTC
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2024-02-27 02:03:10 +0000 UTC
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They had forgotten to bring bread with them, and they had only one loaf on the boat. And he was instructing them, saying, “watch out - take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod.” And they were saying to one another, “it’s because we have no bread.” Perceiving this, he said to them, “Why do you think it’s because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Is your heart hardened? Having eyes, do you not see? Having ears, do you not he...
2024-02-26 17:08:11 +0000 UTC
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At the end of November we got offered to play The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon for the first time. I think at this stage we were given four minutes to work with, and decided to play Drunk Drivers because it was going over really well live at the time. It took quite a bit of work to shave down the couple minutes or so, but Will came up with a totally new arrangement that kept all the best parts while adding a slightly new feel. I remember being excited to change it up after playing the old v...
2024-02-25 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Howdy, you lucky higher tiers! You'll get two streams to peek at this coming week:
on Monday at 6 PM PST, we'll have an Archive Sunday Stream, recapping an eventful end of 2016 as we began to transition from touring Teens of Denial to making Twin Fantasy.
on Tuesday at 1 PM PST, Andrew will host this month's Band Delight stream, making a track from scratch on Ableton! Who knows - maybe I'll pop in too.
See ya there!
2024-02-25 02:19:12 +0000 UTC
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Once again, he called the crowd and said, “All of you, listen to me and consider: nothing that enters a human from the outside can make them unclean; but that which comes out of a human, these are what make humans unclean. If anyone has ears to hear - hear.” After he had left the crowd and gone into a house, his disciples asked about the parable. “Are you still such dopes?” he said. “See - nothing that enters a human externally can make them unclean, because it doesn’t ent...
2024-02-19 17:44:01 +0000 UTC
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From San Francisco, we made the short trip up north to Petaluma. We loaded everything to this nonprofit community building/venue called the Phoenix Theater. It was a really cool space that I think originally started out as an opera house, but now focused on providing an art space and resources for young adults. Both sides of the concrete floor were lined with quarter pipes and rails, so it could serve as an indoor skate-park during the day. Luckily the Naked Giants brought a skateboard along ...
2024-02-18 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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