Our new single and music video, Good Riddance, will release on Friday, August 13th 2021. Working with Director Ryan Klassa is always a joy and a mystery. His mind goes in directions that surprise me and sometimes even make me laugh out loud just due to how fun and creative they are, in the darkest, [...]
Author: KatDowns
How to Play to an Empty Room

[By Kat Downs, Piano Destroyer - Originally Published on her personal blog at KatDowns.com and on Pyragraph ] It happens more often than you might think. Especially when you’re playing in a brand new city. Maybe they didn’t [...]
Burst – New Music Video Released Today
We are so thrilled to have brought the video for "Burst" into the world. It is the third release off of our 2018 album, Tectonic. Burst captures the dual voices that Kat Downs experienced in her head [...]
Wolf Blanket

[By Kat Downs, Piano Destroyer] We originally bought Wolf Blanket at a Walmart in Oregon, I think. Or was it Washington? No, I think we were still in Oregon. Anyway. Our air mattress had died, so we stopped to [...]
Falken

[By Guest Blogger, Stephen Falken] Writing is a gift in the best of times, and harder in the worst of times. When things are bad, attention spans are shorter; everyone wants a quick way out of Now. [...]
There’s Always a First Time

[By Mike Thompson, Drums of Thunder] The first time I ever played solo in front of an audience was not planned at all. It was my 7th-grade talent show and it was an entirely full gymnasium. I [...]
Funny Things

[By Guest Blogger, Kyna Wise, Lead Singer of The Go Ahead] Trust is a funny thing. For purposes of this blog, I'm going to mark "trust" a synonym of "respect" and furthermore "love". It is my belief [...]
The Story Behind “Raven”

[By Kat Downs, Piano Destroyer] If you’ve been at any of the Sit Kitty Sit live shows, there’s a chance you’ve heard this one already. Once upon a time, I was in Alaska. Some friends of mine [...]
Getting Into Vans with Strangers

[By Guest Blogger, Megan McDonald] So. I was an English major in college, graduating from Oregon State University in 2010, and the day after graduating, moving to Portland, Oregon (I am from Oregon, so I don’t want [...]
The Big Nasty

[By Mike Thompson, Drums of Thunder] I enjoy reading about peoples rise to stardom, but only to a point. The stories are pretty similar. They’re cruising along working hard and then they meet that one person and [...]