Saturday’s show was great despite the lack of Will Tarbox. We tend to end up playing a lot more stuff from Midwestern Film when we strip it down and acoustic and/or drumless. Andrew Weathers Ensemble made some gorgeous ambient sounds, Stubborn Tiny Lights played epic mostly instrumental rock compositions, and Autumn Project hit us with their trademark wall of sound. We got to hang out with Austin and Jeff and Jim.

This week we have the Fetal Pig and Going To Grandma’s reunion at Vaudeville Mews on Friday night! That’s going to be awesome! And before that, I (Chuck) am doing a solo show for my new project Distant Trains on Wednesday night with The Bassturd, S.E.R.F., and Todd On Acid, also at Vaudeville Mews. Both shows get going sometime around 9 or 9:30 I think. Between the two I’m a bass maniac this week.

Also really excited for our show with Electric Leaves and Map Of The Woods on August 3. I really love Map Of The Woods, super good guys making an epically droning psychedelic blues noise. That’s also at The Mews. And just in case you start to thinking we never leave town, August 6 has us going to Omaha to play with Noah’s Ark Was A Spaceship at Barley Street. They’ll be returning the favor by coming to Des Moines later in the month.