Friday
September 25

What the night is

“State & Motion” comes out that morning. That evening we play it front to back at Echo - Taste & Sound, a bar and vinyl listening lounge on South Main built for listening to records properly. Almost everyone in the room will be hearing it for the first time.

• 6:00 PM Doors Vinyl and CDs on the table. Seats aren’t assigned, so come early if you want a good one.
• 7:00 PM One song, acoustic To get the room going.
• 7:10 PM In conversation with journalist Kristen DiChiara How the record got made. About twenty-five minutes.
• 7:35 PM The record, front to back All ten songs on Echo’s system, lights down.
• 8:20 PM Acoustic set A few songs, then I’ll stay and talk.

Getting there

Echo - Taste & Sound is at 1301 South Main Street, Las Vegas, NV 89104, in the arts district a few blocks south of Fremont. Parking is metered on the street. Twenty-one and over.

Seats aren’t assigned, so come early if you want a good one. Vinyl and CDs will be on the table.

The record

“State & Motion.” Ten songs, written across four years between tours. Out September 25, 2026.

Pete Thomas on drums. Whynot Jansveld on bass, and he mastered it. Sam Kossler on guitar, Sean Giddings on keys. Photographed in Las Vegas by Ashley Marie Myers, sleeve and layout by Sheenna Mercier.

Ghettoblaster premiered the last single and called it heartland bones, power-pop hooks, no fat.