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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes Life Happens

                                     [By Guest Blogger, Valorie Tyler]   Sometimes life happens, and sometimes it picks you up and places you in the center of something you never saw coming, but never, absolutely never want to stop. -Tyler Knott Gregson I [...]

New Album – Tectonic – Released

                                     We released our fourth album today!!  Tectonic is finally here after long last.  We are exhausted and thrilled and ready to rock our butts off at Bottom of the Hill tonight in San Francisco, CA for the record release [...]

Album. Written.

                                     Holy crow you guys.  The album is written.  Every single note of it.  My place may be destroyed, but it's done.  It's done and I'm so amazingly proud of it.  I'm very excited for you to hear [...]