PO Box is back up and running :)
PO Box 995 Greensboro, NC 27401-2914
Just a reminder this is may way of talkin and yapping with people I wouldn't normally have the chance to
Don't just pitch your band at me that makes me feel weird. Feel free to mention it tho ofc.
Just for transparencies sake & cause I feel comfortable posting this: here is why it is so hard for bands to go to SX !!
This is b4 paying 10% $ to the booking agent and not including food expenses
Combination of staying in COVID safe places and gas prices is p devastating
Here’s the last thing I’m gonna say about the SX tweet.
Touring the cheapest way isn’t always touring the “right” way if it makes it unsustainable for you physically/mentally.
Two bands were at the Airbnb for 5 days. We played 7 shows total, got paid for 1.
Y’all… when I tell ya I had no idea that tweet would be controversial 🙈
It’s kinda a nightmare for me that anyone would discover our music because of a viral tweet but thanks to anyone who’s been listenen + supporting us on bandcamp or wherever
& we are technically a band that is “doing very well” at the moment!! It’s even harder for bands who are more in the DIY side of things who went to SX.
I ain’t complaining abt doing my dream job, but do wanna show why being paid fairly from streaming would make a difference.
Also wanna add SX is a special circumstance and we had a gr8 time!
Regardless we did get COVID and lost money🤷♀️
A reminder that music is simply an industry that is very inaccessible to people without a safety net of time/money.
gonna be posting some crazy exciting news in the coming months...
just wanna put it out there that we worked our asses off, came up in DIY, and treated everyone who supported us and our music with appreciation and respect which goes a long ass way
Very relieved that we are close to being able to live off our music cause working in retail and doing music full time was not sustainable for me forever.
Def a good idea as always to support any bands that are struggling rn if you’re a fan and have the means!
-karly
The funniest bit is also if you search more specifically“Wednesday band” this other Netflix adjacent thing comes up which literally says we don’t exist
I’m obsessed with this phenomenon
Give me more
Ppl in Asheville requesting that you donate to people making deliveries on the ground !
They are getting water, cash and other supplies to locals
Mutual aid is the best use of ur money rn
The lineup on this comp is nuts
recorded my contribution on my phone in west asheville during the storm before anyone knew how bad it was cause there was no phone service
100% of proceeds to hurricane relief
Transparency etc.
Merch treated us well on this tour. We were paid $500 a show ($750 in Asheville)
We’ve toured for 5 years & this is the 2nd time we’ve had a profit.
Wish I had started doing this earlier to illustrate how rough touring is before you get to this point.
Me when the gate agent starts to tell us we can’t carry-on our guitars but I’m ready to cite section 403 of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012
Lil nepotism moment:
My dad does taxes for me and all my musician friends! If you’re feelin stressed by all the weird financial shit that comes with being a touring musician def reach out.
accepting appts til April 15th
He genuinely rocks and is nice
Reading reviews of Boat Songs is so fuckin funny. It’ll be like
“This drunk, WWE whisperer fisherman idiot somehow dragged his drug induced body away from a March Maddness marathon to write the best and stupidest songs of 2022.”
We should put like full ass rock bands playing a full ass song on TV shows again!!
A la Sonic Youth on Gilmore Girls or Cibo Matto on Buffy.
Wouldn’t that be cool as fuck
This is my very selfish wish 😎
A west coast run of solo sets by me and Jake and Dan
Gonna try out some new stuff and do some songs from our collaborative EP’s
Tix on sale Friday at 10 am west coast time
Through streaming or whatever.
We’ve been touring for 5 years, working/being in school when we’re home and barely breaking even.
If there was anyway we could make it easier for people to live off of music, imagine how much more music we’d be able to listen to!!
I’ve done the kind of DIY touring people were suggesting in the quotes and it made me want to never tour again.
I love playing music so I’m gonna do it in a way that helps me feel like I can do it for the rest of my life.
For the bands that say the numbers make you afraid to tour: the point was to highlight how inaccessible being a musician has become.
I hope its easier for more people to be touring musicians if they want to in the future! But it’ll take a rethinking of how we engage with music..
Speaking of which here is the info from our last tour. Just sharing the numbers to normalize the discussion! We had a good tour.
Out for 2 weeks, each of the 5 band mates were paid $3,000 when we got home.
This is the $ we’re gonna live off of til we tour again months from now
1. We need to be less squeamish about discussing our finances (whether your tour is big or small) we should be sharing data on how much venues are paying/ the realities of expenses on the road
2. We need to rethink how we compensate/ provide for opening acts
East and West Coast tour dates for next year :) our first dates in Florida everrrr 😛
presale starts tomorrow at 10 am local time - sign up for presale at
The openers on this tour are fuckin increddddd I’m so excited
Been out on tour for a month and only two venues have had a strictly enforced a mask policy (meaning everyone was wearing masks inside).
They have both been DIY venues.
Big thanks to The Holland Project in Reno and Groundworks in Tucson🙏
my favorite thing about Rat Saw God is that it solidifies the precedent that I have to up the number of times I say "piss" by one each time we put out a new album
Iwttdyts piss count: 0
twin plagues piss count: 1
rsg piss count: 2
Thanks
@sqrrlflwr
and
@DIIV
for contributing to this convo on my behalf!
I think it's a very important discussion but I needed to tap out on it at the time.
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@Wednesday_Band_
brought out the big guns last night in Athens. Archie and I were already in bed but a local homie was nice enough to send me some documentation.
The song by Wednesday (band of scoundrels) “TV in the Gas Pump” out today
Video by our big man Lewis Dahm (our lil guy)
The whole alb (of songs for rat bastards) is out April 7th
I appreciate the pure AUDACITY ppl have to put our covers album on their year end lists
We were just havin fun, good to know we can just have fun and ppl w fuck w it!!!!!
Touring with one of our favorite bands of all time this summer!
@drivebytruckers
Buncha places in the south and NE we’ve never played… we are so fucking excited!!!!!
Tix here:
I feel like this is about the time when people are gonna start saying we're only successful cause they think we are rich kids or something. Which is so invalidating after all the work we've put in.
My dad is an accountant and my mom works in a hospital, please don't bother them.
Extremely well researched wow
Also "country gaze" is a genre I made up just for fun but I've never loved the ring of it. Don't mind if it sticks but if anyone thinks of something better go for it.
We’re about to go on tour for two months and you can bet I’m gonna make decisions for me and my band mates that keep us healthy and well rested.
If you look at the thread you can see I specifically said I wasn’t complaining about losing money. Just posting our budget.
@HoneyCuttband
and the fact that Mia has been like basically world building over the course of an enntttiirree career as well!! Like the music videos, all the promotion, the music itself revolves around this really carefully curated thing!! For someone to rip it off completely is the most 😡😡
It's always been about the music for us.
We're eternally grateful for all of the people who listen, the people that write about us and the people who come out to shows.
ya'll are the only reason we've been able to make this our career.
With the rise of country inspired music coming out, a quick PSA!
B4 you use the term “blue collar” in write-ups ask urself are you doing it cause
A) the band is not from NYC/LA
B) someone is wearing a cowboy hat in the video
C) the artist works a job that involves manual labor
Hey, I wrote about my favorite albums of 2023! This is officially a Top 25 list, but I actually wrote about 51 albums. There are no ties, however. I promise it will make sense when you read it!
I have demos from a friend of mine that will make the slaying-est album of all time
They’re having trouble finding a label to put it out tho
DM me if you have room on your roster for a hit ass record