First post of 2012! I’m so on top of things! BUT while my blog collects dust every now and then, my Twitter is updated all the time, so you can always get the latest news there.

Lots of cool stuff going on right now. Most excitingly, I’m working on a new album! It will be titled Variations In The Pattern and you can expect it out this summer. There’s real drums, real Wurlitzer piano (thanks to Nate!) and NO joke songs, if you can imagine that. I’m really excited about it, and I truly (madly, deeply) think this will be my best album yet. And I don’t always think that about every album I make. This one will be Pugless, but there will certainly be some more work from me and my Pugs in the future, don’t worry!

Speaking of the Pugs, “Freeze Tag” from our Banana Stand show in 2010 is featured on the new live compilation from the ‘Stand, out in June! Here is a video of that performance. Read more about the live comp and its release party here.

I have been doing lots of videos (covers, recording stuff, etc.). Go to my YouTube channel to watch those little nuggets of fool’s gold.

Spookies work is chugging along as well. We have two vinyl EP releases in the works, one being a split EP with The Minders. It will be amazing-awesome.

More news and music soon!

Okay, so I totally should have posted about these things by now. Big whoop. So since a picture says 100 words, I’ll just post the music and let you decide for your cats.

November’s and December’s digital 7″ singles:

And also! I’m in a band with Mayhaw Hoons, Colin Anderson and Mickey Rivers called Spookies. We played our first show last weekend and it amazed. Here is our current three-song demo:

And my Top 5 Albums of 2011 list was published in the Portland Mercury! I do these lists for fun every year anyway so it’s rad to finally have it published in some substantial form.

More Spookies and more digital 7″s coming in 2012! It’s going to be a rad year, despite (or in spite of?) the Mayan calendar.