Keeping busy to avoid the stress of being so busy
June 16, 2026

Missoula show was awesome, great to see my Montana rockers and it was a great send off for Operative (check out their tape here). Weirdly it seems like there's no Pride Month in Montana... Not exactly surprising but it was actually a little bit jarring to realize on the way back wait I have't seen a SINGLE sign or flag in any window or ANYWHERE. Much love to the punks surviving out there, as an escaped Idahoan I know what it's like.

Here's the updates:
-Psychic Death is on hiatus from shows and practice while we work on getting the abum out. It sounds awesome, we are just waiting on getting the art finished then will be trying to see if any labels want to release it. thankfully 2-2-1 Press still has our back so if we aren't able to get picked up by a bigger label they can always send it to get pressed with a super quick turnaround so that's the current fallback plan.
-Sick Joke is playing with Decomp and Burning wind at the end of the month, as well as with getting on the Public Acid and Invertebrates tour in Missoula. Really excited for these as all of our first few gigs had been with very different sounding bands and we have not yet played to a crowd of actual disrockers so usually people don't fully get it. We are planning to record the demo tape later TODAY which will be fun, i'll post updates.
-Massdead has been going great, hustling like crazy to get ready for the mini tour, the songs are a lot of fun. Nothing new on the books since last post but I've gotten some offers for the future i'm very excited about.

The Moscow show was fucking hilarious, super weird vibes all around, strange crowd, double booked at the Eagles Club Lodge the same night as old people karaoke. So naturally as soon as we finished playing I signed up to sing Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton because Noah and I needed to win over the old ladies and it worked perfectly. But also there were some serious clashes between the old folks and the punks, and it seems like that was both the first and last show at that spot.

The music is my reprive from stress, but it takes up about as much time as a part-time job + touring, so on top of my actual part-time job that doesn't make me enough money, I feel like i'm maxed out even though I should probably have a second job on top of it all. I still haven't really financially recovered from getting fired back in November. I crawled my way out of alcoholic cokehead spiral over the course of 2 or 3 years and it took a lot of work, but finally i was doing better and had about $3k in savings, then losing my job put me all the way back at square one (minus the drugs), barely making enough money to pay rent and struggling to pay for food in between checks. It sucks because I "could" just stop doing music and get a job at amazon or some bullshit and probably make a bunch of money but I'm not trying to kill myself so I have to keep doing what I love, hence maxing out on rock n roll. It's working for now but it is a struggle. My partner and I are looking at a house to move in to so hopefully we can get it and it will bring some much needed stability.

I just realized I forgot to talk about Crucial Times fest. It was cool, I had to stop myself from ranting about jock hardcore because it was a lot of straight edge and beat down bands there. For a second I almost let my jaded-ness get the best of me and complained about "music sucks now" but after playing the Montana gig I realized it's just where I live lol. I'm not into this current popular style of hardcore but that's okay, the new kids in the music scene love it and it's cool they have something to do, and the fest also raised a bunch of money for a super important cause so I'm glad I didn't embarass myself by talking shit. That being said, I'm not playing with jockcore bands anymore. "scene unity" is not that important to me, as many people know I am pro gatekeeping. Look no further than the latest "hardcore scene controversy" to understand why that whole thing is corny. Listen to Discharge, start a punk band, get off tiktok, stop doing things to post videos of yourself doing them and start doing things because you like them, dress how you want, make your own clothes, don't buy in to hype and clout, and of course THINK FOR YOURSELF!!!!1

Anarchy and peace, thanks for stopping by!