Feb SOLO stream
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2024-02-17 23:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Biblical Wanderings: Mark 6:2-6
“Where’s he getting this from?” they asked. “What is this wisdom he’s been given? And how does he perform these miracles? Isn’t this the carpenter? The son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us as well?” And they were boggled by him. Then Jesus told them, “A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household.” And he couldn’t perform any miracles there, except to...
2024-02-12 14:31:24 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #35
Straight from Austin, we drove over to Dallas to play a sweet venue called Club Dada. It was kind of a culture-shock coming from a well-run festival with a bunch of crew running the stage, to a small venue where it took us an hour or so to find the circuit breaker to run power. But thankfully the venue sound engineer got there just in time for our soundcheck. I remember hanging out in the green-room/stockroom located at the bar next-door, but after a while the incessant house music bleeding i...
2024-02-11 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary Solo Stream
Happy February, everyone! Appropriate to the month of love, I will be performing tracks from Monomania on this month's solo stream, which will happen next Saturday, February 17th at 4:00 PST.
See you there!
2024-02-10 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBiblical Meanderings: Mark 4:26-33
He also said, “The kingdom of God is like a man who scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, he knows not how. All by itself, the earth produces a crop. First the stalk, then the head, then full grain in the head. As soon as the grain is being yielded, he sends out the sickle, because the harvest is at hand.”
This is one of many parables where Jesus talks about the Kingdom of God. Jesus seems to both relish and...
2024-02-05 17:21:16 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #34
SD: After a short break from the road, we got the chance to play an early set at the Treasure Island festival in San Francisco. We were pretty excited from checking out the stacked lineup and kinda hoping we would escape the Seattle weather for a bit. Much to our dismay, we arrived into town along with a storm system. It cleared up a bit for us to at least take an uber to the island located between Oakland and San Francisco. I remember our driver saying he had actually never dropped anyone of...
2024-02-04 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBiblical Meanderings: Mark 3:22-30
recorded by a babbling brook
And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebub [Satan], and by the prince of the demons he drives out demons.” So he called them together and began to speak to them in parables.
“How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, it cannot stand. And if Satan is divided and rises against himself, he cann...
2024-01-29 17:40:39 +0000 UTC View PostBand's Delight: Mortis Dance Night
January's almost over! Come see it out with me tomorrow night, Monday at 6:30 PST, in an online disco frenzy.
2024-01-28 17:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #33
SD: Right from Champaign we headed to Chicago to play the historic Thalia Hall. But before load-in, we had a taping for a public-access TV show farther into town. So we opted to play with mostly back-lined gear for the short, early performance to not put our second show later that night behind schedule. Once we entered the JBTV studios I immediately recognized the show from the intermittent channel my TV antenna would pick up late at night. And when we were wandering through the studio we wer...
2024-01-28 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Archive Sunday Band Chat Stream
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2024-01-25 21:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostBible Juices: Mark, Overview and 1:10-11
GENERAL OVERVIEW
There are four gospels in the New Testament which tell the story of the life of Jesus: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Mark is currently believed to be earliest gospel of the four, because it is shorter and more ambiguous in many points, where the other gospels expand on the same stories and make distinct moral lessons from them. Mark is my favorite gospel, in part because of this ambiguity - its succinct writing style leaves much to the imagination, like a Harold Pinter ...
2024-01-22 17:21:23 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #32
SD: The day after we played The National in Richmond, we drove up to Baltimore to play this cool little venue called Ottobar. I remember the stage was pretty high for the room with our shins level with the faces of the audience. The green rooms were also super weird. One had a claw-foot tub right in the middle, and the other had a toilet placed on a small stage with a mirror directly in front of it. The Lemon Twigs kicked off the night switching off taking the lead on songs to warm up the cro...
2024-01-21 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary announcements
Hi all!
At the start of every year going through Easter, I like to read through a gospel. This year, I thought I might share that journey, posting thoughts and comments on the readings once a week in lieu of a monthly newsletter. (Those on the letter tier will receive one letter a month compiled from the best of the writings.)
My approach to scripture reading is non-denominational, faith-curious, inquisitive, and possibly heretical. Origen describes the gospel as a "sojourn with m...
2024-01-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #31
SD: We met back up with John and the van at the St. Louis airport once we flew in from Philly. From there we jumped over to the Ready Room the next day to have our first ever show in St. Louis. It was this cute old venue with a small yet devoted crowd that was welcome since we were coming straight from a large, diverse festival a couple days before. After that, we made our way to some more uncharted territory when we visited the college town of Oxford, Mississippi. There we played a restauran...
2024-01-14 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #30
After a few days rest coming home from Omaha, we were excited to make an addition we had been dreaming about since we started touring. I honestly forget who introduced us, probably a friend of a friend, but we all ventured up to Green Lake together after practice to meet up with John McRae to see if he'd be a good fit for our touring sound engineer. We talked for a couple hours mostly about his experience at local venues and then about whatever came to mind to see if he would gel with our gro...
2024-01-07 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary Newsletter: Catching Up
Hello, beautiful Patreon people! It’s morning, I’m back in Seattle, and in honor of a year of getting stuff done, I am writing a non-grandiose newsletter surveying the scene in 2024. Today I need to bounce some stems to bring to our next studio session, which starts on Monday. Before that, a friend is visiting, and I miiiight spend some time at AnthroNorthwest, Seattle’s fledgling furry con. I rang in the new year in Delaware at the New Year’s Furry Ball, guessing at the chords to
Arichive Sunday #29
SD: In August we got the opportunity to play MAHA festival in Omaha. We flew in the night before, and pretty sure the festival booked us a hotel nearby because I remember it being a lot nicer/closer than we were used to. There was this big announcement before the weekend got started that Warren Buffett would be introducing us before our set. We have no idea how or why that became a thing, but I'm guessing he agreed to make an appearance and the only time that worked was before our set.
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2023-12-31 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #28
Fresh off our festival set at Pitchfork, we played a local club show the next night at Chicago's Empty Bottle. We got the chance to hang with Jason Balla of NE-HI who I think at the time occasionally worked at the venue. It was our first show playing with Detroit's own Stef Chura, and kicked off a long run of shows we would tackle together. I remember our booking agent was in town, and she came out to show support. She talked up the venue's rich history and local significance, but was s...
2023-12-24 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #27
SD: We had a few days break before we flew back to the east coast for a couple festivals. The first one was at the South Street Seaport in New York for a one day fest called 4knots. It was at a sweet location on the piers of the East river surrounded by Manhattan skyscrapers and masts of the historic ship the Wavertree. I remember being stoked the festival had a vintage ampeg blueline svt for us to use and probably went a little overboard with the volume coming off a tour where I was using a ...
2023-12-17 17:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Archive Sunday Stream: This Saturday!
We'll be doing the archive stream a bit early this month to get in before the holidays. See you Dec 16 at 4 pst.
2023-12-11 21:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #26
SD: After Glastonbury we drove down to another festival in the Netherlands call Down the Rabbit Hole. It was kind of in the middle of nowhere in the woods next to this big lake where festival-goers would take a dip in the afternoon heat. It was another one of those cool festivals that we only got to experience for a few hours, but I remember catching some of Daughters' set before we had to head out. They also gave us a Heineken in the greenroom with our name on it, and I'm pretty sure Andrew ...
2023-12-10 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostStream Announcements
Happy Friday - today is the release of our live album, Faces From the Masquerade! Hope y'all enjoy.
Next Friday, Dec 15 at 4 PST, I'll be doing my solo stream! This month, I'll be taking requests. Drop a song here in the comments (preferably one I wrote) and I'll try and prioritize ones that haven't been covered in streams thus far.
For the upper tiers, later today I will be doing a Band's Delight stream where I take a first crack at whatever requests come in here. Tune in t...
2023-12-08 17:14:02 +0000 UTC View PostArchive Sunday #25
SD: From Belgium we drove up through France then crossed the channel to to the U.K. Once in England we made our first stop in Brighton to play The Hope & Ruin. The venue had a cool upstairs venue area above the pub below. I remember checking out a vintage shop nearby after soundcheck when we went searching for a restaurant for dinner.
The next day we drove further north to London. We got in a bit early so we could perform on BBC 6 for an early afternoon radio ...
2023-12-03 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDecember Newsletter: A Better Story
What I see is all I’ve seen
In my sweetest sleeping dreams…
One of my strongest early memories is waking up on Christmas morning at nine or ten years old, hours before anyone else would be awake. With nothing else to do, I laid in bed with my discman and listened to The Who Sell Out. Lingering in the dark stillness of night, anticipating with eagerness a morning of presents under the Christmas tree and coffee cake for breakfast, the songs wove themse...
2023-12-01 15:32:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Dance party playlist
Last night was a ton of fun, we'll definitely be doing that again! Here's what we heard, if you wish to recreate:
Trio - Da Da Da
Quantum Jump - No American Starship
Johnny Dynamite & The Bloodsuckers - Bats in the Woods
Mongo Santamaria - Walk on By
Johnny Bristol - Do It To My Mind
Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity
Chuck Berry - Nadine
Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata
The 5th Dimension - Another Day, Another Heartache
Mado...
2023-11-29 16:52:04 +0000 UTC View Post