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 th...
2024-07-15 17:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-07-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
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 b...
2024-07-07 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt 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 brothe...
2024-07-01 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-06-30 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Modelling weird little guys! Maybe making some textures! I just ate some spinach!
2024-06-29 22:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
engineered by John McRae
Will Toledo - guitar, vocals
Andrew Katz - drums, vocals
Ethan Ives - guitar, vocals
Seth Dalby - bass
Ben Roth - keys
2024-06-25 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostApologies 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...
2024-06-24 19:50:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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 s...
2024-06-23 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostEthan 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).
2024-06-17 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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.
2024-06-17 00:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-06-16 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt’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, b...
2024-06-15 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2024-06-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSummer'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 J...
2024-06-07 17:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 pla...
2024-06-02 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTune 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!
2024-05-31 03:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 hom...
2024-05-26 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Last one was accidentally public.
2024-05-24 23:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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 an...
2024-05-19 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-05-12 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings!
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.
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 n...
2024-05-05 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostOn 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 â...
2024-05-01 18:49:41 +0000 UTC View Post
