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new My Big Break out now, used it as an opportunity to chat with great human @wicknebber.bsky.social

we talk about the world's crisis of interest, taking things meaningfully, and how scary it is thinking everyone else is going to Hell

great convo, enjoy!

read.mybigbreak.zone/archive/i-be...
September 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Gig so sick I had to make two flyers

Me + a six piece band playing one riff for forty minutes tonight
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Second to last night of the solo leg of da summer tour I have covered an insane amount of ground in the last few days and tonight I will be playing an extra special one in Durham, NC :)
August 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Unfortunately my continued efforts at playing music have been generously rewarded with mirth and camaraderie and I will have no choice but to continue doing it
August 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We are blasting down 84 blasting Ace of Spades at maximum volume and will not tap the brakes once until we get to the gig in Boise tonight 🫡
July 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I finally get to meet the sweeties @wicknebber.bsky.social and the Nothings tonight (aka @aplaceforowls.bsky.social) and I couldn’t be more delighted

So sick how tour allows you to string together excellent humans

We’re going silly goose mode at Goosetown tonight in Denver
July 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Had a truly wonderful time ripping shit in Minneapolis and also we got into a waterfall and did karaoke haha !!!!

Brining our unstoppable zest for life to Omaha, Nebraska this evening

Hope to see some of you at Pageturners tonight

Has anyone seen my capo btw?
July 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Allora came out one year ago today!!! I love this record, I love going insane, and I love Italy

We will be very appropriately celebrating the album by ripping shit in Minneapolis tonight 🤌
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We will be playing live and loud music tonight in the great Midwest city of Chicago

I assure you the village will not be sleeping when we are through with it!!!!!!
July 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
tour just started !!!!!!!!

about to rip it in Philadelphia then will eat my weight in injera
July 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
New tour shirts came in and they are sick as hell

Coming to a town near some of you soon see ya out there
July 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
new my big break newsletter today featuring a great conversation with Ciarra Fragale, one of the rare musicians who totally made me a fan while I was running sound for her

she's got an extremely ear wormy record called Get What You Want that just came out and we talked about it all, links below
June 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Youth Pastoral reissues look incredibly sick !!!!!!!
June 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
just dropped an extremely hot summer tour and man this appropriately unhinged but ultimately very positive flyer to announce it :)
May 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
LA giggle tonight with Dustin Wong
Solarc made this insane promo collage and I love it
May 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I am creamed up and ready to rock Allston, MA tonight 🍦🍦🍦
May 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Ripping a hot one in Providence, RI tonight - me plus the first ever HOST ensemble plus a live realization of an actual play in progress at Lost Bag let’s gooooooo
May 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Had an excellent time in Burlington, music is sick

Taking this tour back to Catskill tonight, playing at the world’s best bar
May 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
heyyyyyyyy come listen to us wiggle air beautifully in Burlington VT tonight
May 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I am playing an extremely sick ass gig in a beautiful church in Ridgewood Queens tonight
May 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The deluxe, five year anniversary edition of Youth Pastoral is out today via @tinyengines.bsky.social !

New vinyl, new vinyl master, brand new artwork by Alex Tatusian, and a bunch of unheard outtakes on streaming

Grab a copy and listen here:

benseretan.bandcamp.com/album/youth-...
April 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hey check it out we’re ripping shit power trio style at Tubby’s tonight
April 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
new My Big Break newsletter out today featuring a conversation with Alex Daud of the great upstate NY band Fascinating Chimera Project

they've got a new album out called "Songs for the Moon" that starts from a living room upright piano and wanders into the occult energies of the woods, links below
April 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
ahead of the five year deluxe reissue, there's another b-side from the Youth Pastoral sessions out today

check out the tack piano and melting synthesizer version of album closer "Bowing Cypress" - quite different than the album version!

benseretan.bandcamp.com/album/youth-...
April 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
for today's My Big Break I had a really fantastic chat with OHYUNG who is about to drop an absolute heater of an experimental pop album next Friday

we cover her film scores for Julio Torres, the challenges of pure pop, & the beauty of paying someone $200 to play your music ~

link in next post!
March 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM