Jon Uleis

Internet Maker, Photograph Taker

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TMBG at Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY - April 17, 2026 (night one)

Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0pOxFBIcKSUQ96Qmg3xhOWNTEWBWdE7M

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Got my first 3D printer for Christmas and have wasted no time

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A18 minus the A and 18

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The John Henry hypercard stack is back. Enjoy. (big big h/t to our hero Jon Uleis)

TMBG John Henry HyperCard Sampler

They Might Be Giants has just completed a new album, John Henry, which will be in the stores this August, but you don't have to wait until t

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A new daily game from TMBW is here: Wiki Detective! https://tmbw.net/game/

Each day you’ll see the wiki’s song themes for a specific studio TMBG song - one of over 500 culled from 40+ albums, EPs and collections. After a few incorrect guesses, you’ll be given hints in the form of other information about the song.

Good luck!

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Made a game for TMBW!

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Last week a very kind man in Brooklyn gifted me an accordion that hadn't been played for a while.

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I’ve put together an interactive heatmap of every city that TMBG has played from 1982 to now, using thousands of shows from TMBW’s database! Pick a city and a date to see its setlist on the wiki (when available). Give it a spin at https://tmbg.world

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Hey John, do you have any memory of this? It's a classified ad from a January 1982 issue of In These Times... a 14 song demo tape that predates TMBG. It's a real mystery, TMBW knows nothing of it. Can you tell us anything about it? Any idea what songs might be on it?

JF: I'm sure it was me. Not sure why exactly, but I suspect someone said it was free to advertise and, hey, $4 was two meals for me in 1982, so I just put something in the paper. Probably some iteration of a demo.

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Another discovery from the TMBW Discord! This one blew my mind

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tmbw.net awesome edition

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Love this TMBW fan art 😭

Maybe a good place to mention we recently started a TMBW Discord! Feel free to join, it's been a lot of fun: https://tmbw.net/discord

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The tour kicked off with a bang in Philly last night

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Glad I had my phone out in this moment

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For maybe the first time on YouTube, this is the complete commentary track John & John recorded for the 2003 "Direct from Brooklyn" music video DVD!

Because of Warner/Elektra copyright policies, it took a few tricks to get this to upload in full, including reducing the background song audio on three videos and obscuring the image on another two. More details in the YouTube description.

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For the holidays, I received a "Make Your Own Vinyl Record" gift card for an Amsterdam-based company. Not knowing what to put on the record and with the expiration date of the gift card rapidly approaching, I went with TMBG!

With the limitation of ten minutes per side (being a 10" 33 1⁄3 RPM record), I compiled some of the earliest TMBG recordings with era-appropriate artwork, including the band's Futura logotype used back then. The "biographies" of John & John on the back are lifted from a 1983 promotional flyer seen in Gigantic.

Even though most of the record consists of decades-old MP3s ripped from even older cassettes, it manages to sound cohesive. Wish these songs would get a proper re-release!

(And yes, unfortunately I had to leave room for the mandatory Vinylify logo/disclaimer on the rear cover.)

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Our friend @capitalq has remastered and edited the "Am I Awake?" John & John recording session and interview from a Resident Life promotional DVD that I have owned for twenty years. I uploaded the raw video to YouTube in 2007, never having gotten around to trying to do something about the editing, or lack thereof. Now you can see it beautifully cut together and in high definition. Thanks, Jon!

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New old TMBG content: John & John hosting Nick Rocks in 1988! Featuring two in-studio performances. 

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How would you describe the remastering process for the upcoming Long Tall Weekend vinyl coming out soon? Was it similar to the EQing done on the recent reissues of the first two albums, or did it need to be more involved?

The Long Tall Weekend tracks were not only from many different studio situations--some fancy, some pretty raw-- they also had never really been properly mastered, so even simple stuff like basic level matching wasn't really in place. I suspect folks who are tuned into those kinds of things will find it a big improvement.

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So hyped

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New upload!

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Hi John! Looking for scraps about the first show you played as TMBG, I put together a composite of this 1983 press sheet you guys made, using screengrabs of Gigantic. It appears to list the show as Feb 13 (rather than Jan 23 or Feb 23) which puts it right in line with the big blizzard of 83. Is there a chance the "legendary 23 show" wasn't on the 23rd, but 2/13 instead?

JF: I think this pretty much nails it down, and I salute you for your dilligance. (This press release was one of the very fist press things we ever did and the dutiful listing of all our gigs seems like a semi-desperate move to prove we actually exist as a band!) But the Feb 13 date brings the show right up to the days right after-or really the third day of the mega-snow-storm which was definitely the main topic of the night-which does line up with the snowfall records.

I think we should adjust the history books, which is to say the TMBW entry, and amend the legendary story. I wish it happened LATER rather than earlier, so we could keep on talking about our 40th anniversary, but maybe it doesn't matter!

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A little forensic enhancement revealed the show was not on 1/23 or 2/23, but in fact, 2/13!

Unfortunately this dampens the impact of the "legendary 23 show" story, but only slightly.

Did a little rewrite of the TMBW article last night as a result: https://tmbw.net/wiki/Shows/1983-02-13