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🐧🐧 - the 2025 Penguins Draft Class
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TODAY’S AFFIRMATION:
WELCOME TO PITTSBURGH CONNOR CLIFTON, PEYTON KETTLES, CHARLIE TRETHEWEY, GABRIEL D’AIGLE, BRADY PEDDLE, TRAVIS HAYES, RYAN MILLER, QUINN BEAUCHESNE, JORDAN CHARRON, CARTER SANDERSON, AND KALE DACH 🐧
Hey so. About 5 years ago this week we released AFTER THE LIGHTS FAILED and to celebrate that, Abe snuck around behind Mike's back and coordinated with a bunch of artists to do an arrangement album of all of the songs. Each band or musician took one song and made it theirs. It's a work of art, and Mike cried a lot while listening to it. You might too. Full lineup: Travis Hayes, Petriform, Dogcatcher, [MONO]Stereo, Alexis Blair of El Gato Dice (and so many more), Ace Waters, Zen Zenith (of August Brings, Please Do Not Fight + more), Matthew Joseph Payne, and Gnarboots. Because they're sneaky bastards, our drummer Joey, violinist Alan and bassist Josh feature on several of these covers but NOT playing their corresponding parts because I mean, why not. Anyway - here it is. Style ranges from solo acoustic folk to elaborate analog synthtronica and banjo-driven horn sections. Listen to it. It's beautiful. https://curiousquail.bandcamp.com/album/five-years-after-the-lights-failed
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No More Silly Love Songs: Travis Hayes' "Sleepless"
No More Silly Love Songs: Travis Hayes’ “Sleepless”
Travis Hayesis a hard artist to place, sonically speaking. He may descend from the singer-songwriter tradition, and you can definitely hear traces of the understated angst apparent in the Jackson Browne-led Laurel Canyon scene, but Hayes’ arrangements are often too muscular, too full of pounding drums and bass, to be an apt comparison, and that edge provides a stark contrast to sleek ‘70s…
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We couldn’t think of a better way to send Joyce off into her new life as guitarist for Queen’s ‘We Will Rock You’ musical than by getting four bands on one stage to cover Bohemian Rhapsody.
Travis Hayes | SLG Art Boutiki, San Jose CA (04.23.2016)
This band has a special place in our quail hearts - they’re just super amazing people but we shared the stage with them at the Great American Music Hall in SF last year and it was a night I’ll never forget.
Well shit, now we have a new ‘night we’ll never forget’ with them. This show was incredible!
Photos + Gifs by Mike Shirley-Donnelly
The final part of our interview with these people.