Some more Fred news: The monthly singles will be compiled into an album, which will also see a physical release later this year.
Discovering after reading the description of the YouTube video that the band's corporation in the Fred era was called I Feel Like Taking Crazy Pills.
I remember listening when it first came out and enjoying it, but I can't remember anything from it anymore. Sounds like I'll be revisiting this today.
"Smiling and Alive" might be one of my favourite things John has ever written, and I have huge love for Straylight better check his first two solo albums I guess
it's so cool that "Half a Block to Go" is kind of an extension of "Homecoming", that hit me hard when I realised it also when I was googling that to check if I was imagining it or not, I came across an AMA from 2018 where he confirmed the connection which also has this fun tidbit: "I really like collaborating with other musicians that I’m friends with and I’ve discussed it with a few of them but nothing solid has ever materialized. When I was on tour with Dashboard and Saosin we had an impromptu accapala jam session every night with a revolving group of people. It was super hippy stuff and we recorded on our phones but never went further. We called the group Fucking Whatever." backstory!
wrote a little narrative about listening to "My Blue Heaven" in the 9th grade for my newsletter today if yr into newsletters: #9: My Blue Heaven // Six EPs