Apologies for the slow start to 2025. Yesterday I looked at the date and said, “Oh yeah - I should probably write a newsletter, shouldn’t I?” While I leave this coming year a fresh page, undi...
2025-01-06 17:51:49 +0000 UTC View Post
After our show at the House of Blues San Diego, we made our way back up to Los Angeles. We were slated to play the Wiltern again in Koreatown and pretty pumped that it sold it. I remember this wa...
2024-12-29 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
About a week or so after getting back to the Pacific Northwest, we started getting ready for our local Seattle show. It was our first time playing at the historic Paramount Theatre down...
2024-12-22 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The next day after our short residency at Brooklyn Steel, we made our way west across New Jersey towards Philadelphia. It was difficult to get back in the swing of things, but luc...
2024-12-15 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostDec 15 at 1 PM PST: Band's delight: study hour with Will! Get some work done on those exams and papers alongside your Patreon peers.
Dec 19 at 4 PM PST: Solo performance stream with Will. I'l...
2024-12-11 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We met back up with Degnan and the van once we crossed back into the U.S. Earlier we had decided to let him hang out in upstate New York with most of the merch because it ends up ...
2024-12-08 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostMy winter so far has been cold, calm, and quiet. Cold, as I haven’t put up much of a fight against the changing weather. In previous years I’d crank the heat to create a bubble for myself; this...
2024-12-06 18:37:27 +0000 UTC View Post
After a couple years on the sidelines waiting for the numbers to drop, we were excited to hit the road again in 2022 once things seemed a bit safer. It took a ton of preparation to ensu...
2024-12-01 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostTune in tomorrow at 11 am PST for a band delight's stream with Will. We'll decide what we're doing once we get there!
2024-11-30 00:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostI used to write in darkness. “Trapped!”, an old song from the Nervous Young Men era, sums up my typical state of mind during high school, or maybe 2024-11-28 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“I’m bringing a caterpillar under the umbrella.”
“Nope.”
“Seriously?”
“Here, I’ll give you a hint: I’m bringing under the umbrella, ummmmmmmm….” 2024-11-18 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Outtake from MADLO sessions.
2024-11-17 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 26th, at 4 PST: Archive Sunday stream.
December 1st at 1 PST: Band performance stream of Twin Fantasy (MTM). (This is still the November stream...
2024-11-14 23:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostHigh school was, for much of its duration, a drift through frightening and alienating unknowns for me. Throughout it all there was a bright thread, one that brought me a consistency of schedule, of...
2024-11-11 21:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
AK: The infamous 1 Trait Danger tour; the one, the only (literally). We had always wanted to do some sort of tour with 1TD but of course it had always been on the backburner. This was until Will go...
2024-11-10 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI was born just outside of what they’re now calling “the anxious generation”, kids who grew up in the era of smartphones. The idea that personalized screens could be a constantly accessible f...
2024-11-04 17:50:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In the middle of October, we had a few days to lay down some recordings at the now familiar Avast Studios. Most of the live band Madlo takes were recorded there, plus we had a bit of ex...
2024-11-03 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI have a recurring nightmare of clams. I’m on the beach, walking into the ocean, when suddenly I find my feet pinched by thousands of hard, painful objects - a seabed full of shelled mollusks, si...
2024-11-01 17:21:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Now this is a story all about how....
2024-10-28 22:51:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Starting back in early September, we met back up with Death Cab for Cutie to play some local Pacific Northwest amphitheaters. Our first show was down in Portland at the Oregon Zoo for the tail end ...
2024-10-27 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The next day after the Hollywood Bowl show with Death Cab, we caught a flight to Porto with a couple hour layover in Paris. The Paris airport is beautiful, but kinda uncomfortable when you have to ...
2024-10-20 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy, here's this month's streaming schedule.
October 20th, noon PST - band's delight stream with Will, content TBD.
October 28th, 4 PST - band performance stream. In celebration of it...
2024-10-14 17:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Picking back up in Indianapolis, we set our sights on finishing off the later part of the tour. So we drove south through Kentucky towards Nashville the next day. We must have listened ...
2024-10-13 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Later in March we received a last minute offer to play SXSW again to help fill out an artist showcase at Stubb's. We were pleasantly surprised to learn it actually paid some...
2024-10-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
