“Fargo, like the movie where everyone dies?” Hek asks when we roll into town. “Yes,” I say, “but that’s movie is more a satire about small town Minnesotans than North Dakota’s biggest city.” Along the way we take a detour to detroit lakes where my three youngest siblings and Dad had just arrived at a…
First, just, thank you Saint Paul! Thank you Tim Houlihan and your band of music slinging warriors! We had so much fun. Too much fun. We had a massive basket of Easter egg colored fun. Our only complaint is no complaint at all, why did that bartender pour us a glass of Tequila in the…
In rural Iowa Julianne Mason said something I never expected to hear from her. She said, “Luke, I need you and Hek to dig a grave for Tom so that we can burn him in it.” Granted, she was filming a music video, and Tom was still alive enough afterwards to play our first…
Today, we took to the road. Last night at The Legion Bar in Williamsburg was an excellent way to close off a merry week in New York. A receptive crowd, a crowd of friends of the various acts, was there to do what concert goers want to do—have fun, bop to music, drink, laugh, let lyrics…
Sometimes positive outcomes of negative occurrences cannot be ignored. Like when tragedy at SeaWorld leads to a drop in attendance. In my last post, I wrote about how Spirit Airlines was the worst when they broke international law just so they could break my guitar. Spirit Airlines is to the airline industry what SeaWorld is…
My bro Tyler, and my bra Henry Hypnotic made some moves this December, singing songs and jams from Denver to San Francisco and every which-where between. Music as of late has become inseparable to my travel, adding a new layer of intrepid melodic yum yum to The Road. Most of these recordings were done on…
Music says something fundamental about us, a little window not just into who we are, but how we are. Do you smell that? Get closer.Yep. Unmistakable. It’s Christmas and it’s permeating in the air. Everyone but chronic haters are onboard with it. And since my gift Christmas gift buying budget ranges from a few hundred…
Loki and the Fashion Bandits is what you get when a tiny hope mixes with the spice of reality. When I came to Iceland, with Sarah my guitar, I hoped that I might be able to jump into the awesome music scene there. Chance meetings can lead you about anywhere, and before I knew it,…
Not knowing what a “hipster” is so 2011 Just to be clear, by hip I mean “hipster” and by “hipster” I mean that positively and do not mean to get into existential debate about what that word means. Not knowing what “hipster” means is so 2011. Hipster means you are in your 20s or 30s,…
“I will kill and eat a puffin” I said, joking, until I realized, maybe, I was seriously contemplating it . . I was traveling with three Canadians (which means I was being apologized to quite frequently despite never being wronged) and they informed me that in Iceland people routinely catch and eat puffins. I’m sorry…
