Snarky Puppy @ Blackwater Music Fest

The Pup returneth this weekend with its first major Florida festival- Blackwater Music Fest. We’ll be playing two sets, one as Snarky Puppy and one as the backing band for our guitar-slinging buddy Matt Grondin.
Matt is a Jacksonville-bred, New Orleans-based guitarist who stumbled upon Snarky Puppy at our favorite NOLA hang, the Blue Nile. He [...]

A visual and aural summary of a month’s madness

Who likes to read, anyway? Here’s a collection of cute little images (moving and still) that tell the story of spring tour.

Our gracious Quebecois hostess, Roxane.

Fine. See you on the next one…
“Tell Your Friends” will be officially released in June on Ropeadope Records.

Tour Post 15 – the Rex do it right

On our last tour, we went through a very unfortunate series of events in the wonderful city of Toronto, Ontario. Our bus broke down. Badly. Then we paid to have it fixed. Then it broke down again, after driving about ten feet. Then we had $7,000 worth of equipment stolen during our Halloween show. Then [...]

Tour Post 14 – montreal, heart-stealer

Montreal is always, always, always a highlight on our tours.
Maybe it’s because the food is amazing. Maybe it’s because we have amazing friends there. Maybe it’s because every single girl in the whole damn city could be a supermodel. Or a Nobel prize winner. And they all speak freaking French.
Or maybe it’s because Montreal knows [...]

Tour Post 13 – city o’ beans and ari hoenig shreds

Our Tuesday night show in Boston marked the first of 6 straight nights playing with Ari Hoenig, Adam Rogers, and my scared self on bass. There’s not a whole lot to report about the show, other than the fact that it went really freaking well (I only lost where beat one was 653 times instead [...]

Tour Post 11 – Skatey Puppy?

After finally getting a bit of rest at my mom’s house in Fairfax, we headed 90 miles southwest for a show at one of our favorite tour stops – Harrisonburg, VA.
The venue is a sweet restaurant/bar in the “downtown” area (a pretty liberal expression) called Clementine. Killer grub, killer brews, killer (and frighteningly attractive) staff, [...]

Tour Post 10 – the homefront

Coming home is always a bit strange for me.
I grew up in Fairfax, Virginia (among other places), which is a strange place. A casualty of the Washington, D.C. area’s suburban boom, it’s home to every corporate chain restaurant and store you can think of, a bunch of lame cookie cutter housing subdivisions, and incredibly effing [...]

Tour Post 9 – Slowanoke, with.

Somewhat embarrassed by my weak-ass last post, I’m going to make up for it here.
Sunday found the band feeling the effects of the evening before, but we dutifully reported to our recording session at the Jefferson Center somewhat on time.
The Jefferson Center for the arts is a multi-purpose facility in downtown Roanoke dedicated to preservation [...]

Tour Post 8 – The Star City

I grew up in Virginia. Kind of.
I grew up in northern Virginia, which is effectively its own state. Unlike the rest of VA, there’s no regional accent. Unlike the rest of VA, there is no real embedded community, as most folks that live there have government jobs and move a lot. And unlike the rest [...]

Tour Post 7 – Out in the Boon(i)e(s)

I must apologize for going a week without posting anything. That’s embarrassing. I’m a slacker. Sorry. I’m going to start where I left off…
We left Birmigham full of joy and barbecue (I personally had 6 sandwiches in 5 days) for the beautiful little mountain town of Boone, North Carolina. The last time we were there, [...]