Update May 2026/June 2026
The Rex Theatre in Morenci, MI is a really cool place with very cool people; at over 100 years old, it was once a venue for vaudeville shows and film screenings, and was bought out and rejuvenated in 2020. We played there May 2nd with our new friends Agatha Haag, and Swamp Rats, who are by far the band we play with the most. What can we say? We can’t get enough of ‘em.
We got to play at the Old Miami on May 8th with Brook Pridemore, Apparent Strangers, Endless Mike & The Beagle Club, and the artit simply known as Dan.
We also managed to sneak into the photo booth and take some pretty cute pictures.
Had the honor of being invited to a house show hosted by Ypsilanti’s own Pillow Princess (who I’ve heard is as of right now looking for bandmates, so maybe hit her up online if you’re into that), which has given us some devious thoughts on throwing our own party with a show in our basement. Developments to come…
Speaking of Ypsilanti, of course we just can’t stay away from the Regal Beagle, and on May 15th we got together with Kid Levy, Confusion Reactor, and Carmel Liburdi to put on a show at our favorite trans dive bar.
Now, lemme tell you about the following day: Chicago. The farthest we’ve played away from our mother Detroit so far. One thing I’m very proud of us for is that we didn’t have to pay for food once. We packed our own food—almost all of it homemade, all of it vegan—in just the perfect amount that it was all eaten up by the time we made it home the next afternoon. The venue we played at was actually a nifty little DIY venue in someone’s garage—which was rad and also so incredibly hot and stuffy, on the first real day of summer weather in the midwest, but we were given such a warm reception and can’t wait to go back. Joining us on the bill was Peng, One Good Year, and Ouro and the Future.
Got told by someone there to “Get an Instagram like a normal person” so they could follow us. Hahaha. No. If you are too lazy to go anywhere except the one place where you will be spoon-fed information by the algorithm, then you deserve to miss out on stuff. Which reminds me: you should delete your Meta accounts. Listen to me—I say this because I care about your wellbeing. I literally do not have the time to list out all the evils they have been credibly accused of—the cancerous spread of A.I., the promotion of blatant misinformation and hate speech, the rapidly-deteriorating privacy protections, the data harvesting practices that enable them to track your data across apps and websites which has been used not just to push more advertisements into everyone’s faces but to also track down and punish protesters and dissenters—seriously. It goes on ad nauseum. We stubbornly refuse to support them by giving them any of our clicks and money and we certainly don’t want to give them other people’s clicks and money because they looked for us there. It is embarrassing behavior, we believe, to complain about something knowing just how bad it is, and still continue using it without so much as bothering to seek out alternatives. Of course, no one can sacrifice everything—too many evil monopolies, no ethical consumption blah, blah, blah—but everyone can sacrifice something, and I personally feel like this is a relatively easy one. Anyway, we will continue to kick ass as a band without ever needing to resort to using some soulless billionaire fuck’s platform to do so, and I’m confident that you don’t need to, either. Okay. Self-righteous rant over.
Oh boy, is the first weekend of June gonna be a doozy: the 5th at Mulligan’s in Grand Rapids, the 6th at Ghost Light in Hamtramck, and the 7th at the Hazel Perk in Hazel Park…and that’s it because I expect we’ll basically be dead for the rest of the month.
A very sleepy Mark on the way home from Chicago.