Join us this coming Friday, January 13th at the Green Plow Cafe in Redmond, OR. The Green Plow is quickly becoming one of our favorite venues to play music in Central Oregon, especially when paired with great bands like The Hollands!

July came…I was moving, but the album was not quite finished. The final challenge, vocals. We pushed, and we pushed…but I know as a growing vocalist the worst thing you can do is put yourself under pressure to sing. I moved, leaving the finished instrumental tracks on the studio hard drive. We said goodbye. I [...]

Hurray, an album release! Modern Saints! Dan Bosman of Scented Vinyl let us release hold the first phase of our album release at the Mars Cafe in December 2010. This was momentous…the best album yet, self recorded and produced and released with a great backing band. Still…I wanted Winteresque. I had been playing the songs [...]

Great, all I needed was an album’s worth of songs! Piece of cake… I had been reading up on modern architecture, and modern philosophy, and these ideas eventually spilled into the music I was writing. “Modern Love” was the first song written…originally spelled “Modyrn Luv,” but thankfully changed! The thesis was love…very different stuff for [...]

So, I thought we were ready to go to work on yet another album. That’s how things had worked between Branches and Telltale Heart, there hadn’t been much of a break. I had the songs…now hit it! I even started a Kickstarter project in anticipation of starting the album. I was playing with a great [...]