Victory Blog

Woo. Sorry for the long time, no writey.
The big obvious news is that Snarky Puppy has been awarded “Best Jazz Act” in the 2010 Dallas Observer Music Awards, making it three years in a row. Like daaaaaaaaaa Bulls. Remember? The 90’s? Maybe not.
Anywho, no one was in town to accept the award, so our buddy [...]

Two bits of goodness…

…to finish your week.
#1) Shaun Martin dropping some serious Moog ridiculousness at Dallas, Texas’ Prophet Bar during our album pre-release party. For the AD/HD and others with short attention spans, skip to 1:25.

#2) My friend and roommate Nikki D’Agostino, uh, “hipped” me to this. Look. And LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF.
That’s all for now. Heading over [...]

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 12 – new yaaaaaaahk

Yes, yes, yes. It is a wonderful thing to go back home.
Even if your home comfortably houses 3, actually houses 5, and you bring your whole band to stay there and all of a sudden it’s housing 13. But that’s how we effing roll, dude.
We peeled into New York on Friday, just in time for [...]

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 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, [...]

this is where my booty will be be tonight

Keyboardist, vocalist, bassist, drummer, producer, hit-maker, and overall musical Yoda. That’s only a shred of the essence of the great Bernard Wright. He is the greatest musician I’ve ever experienced, and he plays for frickin free every Monday night at a cozy little club in Dallas, Texas.
Nard has a tradition at this venue, now in [...]

this song is definitely not about Sput

A clip of “Slow Demon” recorded live at Dockside Studio in November 2009.