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April Newsletter
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 de...
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Archive Sunday #46
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 almo...
Band's Delight Stream: Make a Song with Andrew
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 BarnesP.O. Box 366Medina, WA 98039See you soon!
Archive Sunday #45
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 Atla...
Archive Sunday #44
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 ...
April Stream Schedule
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.
Archive Sunday #43
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 ...
Archive Sunday #42
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 bumme...
Archive Sunday Band Chat Stream
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Biblical Wanderings: Gospel of Mark, conclusions
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 m...
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Archive Sunday #41
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 re...
March Streams
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...
Biblical Wanderings: Mark 2 and 11
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...
Archive Sunday #40
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 De...
Biblical Wanderings: Mark 9:43-48
“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 e...
Lyric Analysis: "Nothing Changes", MGMT
(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.)***This is what the gods must have been talking aboutWhe...
Archive Sunday #39
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 muc...
Biblical Wanderings: Mark 7:24-30
(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...
Archive Sunday #38
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 ...
March Newsletter: A Letter From Love
(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 typ...
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Biblical Wanderings: Mark 8:14-19
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, ...
Archive Sunday #37
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 ...
End of Month Streams
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 ho...
Biblical Wanderings: Mark 7:14-23
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 ...
Archive Sunday #36
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 y...
