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#348: "All That We Wanted Was to Witness Something Beautiful"
I'm back from the west coast Taxpayers tour, and I gotta tell you - I have been feeling such creative exhaustion recently. Is that a thing? Has anyone ever felt that? Too many plates spinning, too many balls in the air. The mechanism inside me that helps make stuff is still there, but it is ...
Punk Rock Integrity - Side Stage Conversations with The Taxpayers
Hey y’all! Just wanted to share this Circle Breaker interview from when we were in NJ.We are in California right now gearing up for tour. Looking forward to seeing some of you! - Robhttps://www.theaquarian.com/2025/07/23/punk-rock-integrity-side-stage-conversations-with-the-taxpayers/
#347: "Purple Mountain Lies"
Hi folks! I'm back from the east coast Taxpayers tour. It was so great to see so many of you Song of the Week Clubbers.This is one that I started working on before tour and finally got a chance to jump back into it. It would sound great as a full band one, I think. Got more editing on it to do s...
World Refugee Day Concert Livestream
Starting now...ish!
Protests, Moonlit Fishing, Philadelphia, and More
Hi folks! Happy Father’s Day to the dads out there.Been a wild week for the world, but when is it not these days? Yesterday morning we were on our way to the Minneapolis No Kings protest with Zippy when we found out that it had been cancelled due to a shelter-in-place order. A state senator and st...
Interview on Nola County Radio
Hey y’all! Here’s an interview I did with Jimi Palacios for American Roots Roundup and Nola County Radio.Jimi is an old pal of mine from New Orleans who has become an omnipresent voice in the American Roots music scene. He hosts a ton of radio shows and Roots/Country/Folk music nights at venues ...
World Refugee Day Benefit Concert
Hey y'all! There is going to be a benefit concert on Friday June 20, 2025 that I wanted to invite you to. You can attend in person if you will be in Minneapolis on that day, or virtually via Livestream if you live elsewhere. It's a fundraiser concert to help refugees from conflict zones th...
#346: "Zero Gun Salute" and California shows and B-Sides!
The RIVER! One for the river. The Mississippi for me, but they are all great rivers. I owe many long overdue songs to many places and people and creatures and things, but the river has always been at the top of the list. I am glad to cross it off. I hope to one day play it for the river some da...
#345: "Hail Oxygen"
How exciting! A truly strange one. Been a while since one of these came out of me. I was starting to worry that I didn’t have these in me anymore.I can be so controlling with my creations. Before beginning a song I will often think, “you are about this” and then will try to fit the song into t...
#344: "Clouds Forever"
This one has been kicking around in my head for the past few months, finally got around to finishing it tonight at the end of an appropriately cloudy day. Hope you all are hanging in. -rClouds Forever(F#m) Blood on every doorstep.Death on every door.Buckle up, it’s coming like you’ve never seen...
Interview on Witchita's NPR Station
Hey y'all! Thought I'd share this interview I did with Jedd Beaudoin for Witchita Public Radio. We talk about the process of songwriting, growing through traumatic events, and some of the formative years of Taxpayers touring.Also, just added a San Francisco Taxpayers show in late July for th...
#342: "Tunnel Logic"
Hey folks! Here's a new demo I've been working on. It's called "Tunnel Logic". It was great to see some of you at the fest in Los Angeles last weekend and you midwesterners the weekend before. The coolest part was seeing how many people already knew the words to the new Circl...
Circle Breaker SHALL BE RELEASED.
Hear ye, hear ye, I hereby deem the new Taxpayers album, Circle Breaker, be released into the world.Listen to it here on Bandcamp(or anywhere else you stream your music).This album wouldn't exist without the support of you, the Song of the Week Club. You can hear the gestations of early demos o...
Podcast Interview With Rob and Noah
Here's an interview that me and Noah did with the podcast Back On the Grind about the new album, the philosophy of the Taxpayers, and more. Pepe, the host, is a longtime radical thinker, record label owner, and prison abolitionist, who spent 5 years in a federal prison on marijuana charges. His...
Some Reviews of the New Taxpayers Singles
Hey gang. Thought I would share some of the reviews of the new Taxpayers songs because, hey, it's pretty cool that people are taking the time to review these tunes.https://beatsperminute.com/the-taxpayers-celebrate-the-imperfection-of-broken-things-on-at-war-with-the-dogcatchers/"At War Wit...
New Taxpayers Song and Video - I Am One Thousand
Hi folks. Today we’re releasing the song “I Am One Thousand” from our new album Circle Breaker. Link to all Taxpayers stuff here. Some of you might remember the original demo for this songfrom right here at the Song of the Week Club. At the time it was one of the few demos that I knew would ...
Happy Mardi Gras, People!!!
Have a little Professor Longhair for breakfast, shake your booty, do whatcha wanna!
Resistance in a Strange World
Hi folks. This photo slideshow is a list I’ve been working on to help me feel less powerless and to remind myself of things I can do to affect change in today’s world. I would love to hear any additional suggestions anyone has.I think it’s important to encourage ourselves and each other to fin...
#341: "Bad Hand Coming Down"
God help us.
New Taxpayers Song and Music Video!
Hi folks. Just wanted to share this new song off of the upcoming Taxpayers album Circle Breaker. This is a neat one for the Song of the Week Club, as it's one that I posted an early iteration of back in May of 2022. A lot has changed since that version, huh? Different chorus, bridge, instrum...
#340" Zip and Pop Bingo Banana"
Well, here's something nice - it's me and Zippy's first collaborative song. He played the glockenspiel and tongue drum, I played the ukulele. We both sing. Zippy has a well-timed "fuck" towards the end, followed by a "pock" as if to distract from the "fuck".I a...
#339: "Not My Fault" (Big Tree Pond)
Hey, here’s a new thing. I recently took another crack at the Big Tree Pond script that me and Elise started working on back in, geez, 2018, maybe? Some time during the first Trump administration.Big Tree Pond is a children’s allegory about what happens after the big tree falls down at the pond ...
Taxpayers Headlining L.A. Fest April 5th!
Hey folks! This hasn’t been publicly announced yet, so I wanted to give you Song of the Week Clubbers a heads up a day early in case any of you southern Californians wanted to scoop up a ticket to the Growing Up Is Dumb Fest on April 5th before they’re gone.Growing Up Is Dumb Fest is a long-runn...
Wanna be in the next Taxpayers music video???
We wanna put you and your family and your pets in the next Taxpayers music video! Does your goldfish have what it takes? Email us a short (VERTICAL!) video of your dog/hamster/toddler/grandma dancing to a new Taxpayers song and make them more famous than a billboard lawyer! Crappy phone footage pref...
NEW TAXPAYERS ALBUM: CIRCLE BREAKER! TWO MUSIC VIDEOS! VINYL, TAPE, AND SHIRT PREORDERS!
Hi folks! Well hot dang, it's finally here, and I'm posting this here at the Song of the Week Club before anywhere else. We're excited, proud, and a little nervous to announce the new Taxpayers album, "Circle Breaker", along with the first 2 songs, "Circle Protector" and ...
#338: "City Eater"
Like most weirdos, I spend a lot of idle time thinking about the nature of existence. And it gets more pronounced around the start of a new year - something about another notch in the passage of time gets the mortality alert going, I guess. When I was kid it was the reason I loved Art Bell and Sight...
Secret Ticket Link for Taxpayers Midwest shows!
Hey y'all! Just wanted to drop a secret ticket link for you to a couple Taxpayers shows in March - Minneapolis, Chicago, and Detroit. We will probably announce these later this evening, but wanted to give you the drop first. Hope you're well!Minneapolis -https://www.skeletix.com/3241-the-...
Howdy from Tasmania!
I’m sitting here next to a sleeping Zippy looking out at the ocean in Dodges Ferry, Tasmania, wondering how I got so darn lucky to get to travel with my family to distant lands and play music for complete strangers (who somehow know the words to our songs!) with my friends/bandmates. We just got b...
Hello from Australia!
Just wanted to share with you this Mark Downie appreciation post! That’s Mark on the standup bass, and he’ll be joining me and Elise on Saturday in Brisbane. Mark runs the @hobofopo festival in Tasmania, is a soil scientist, runs Folk Till Ya Punk Records, and is an all around great dude. He has...
