Kinda Mad

We have been working diligently on this song and album for the last few months. Between juggling papers for a degree, recording sessions for this album, and a day-to-day work/ life balance. Let me tell you, it has been a process! However, we are so excited to share what we believe is our best work yet.

Wolf Like Me and the remaining six songs off of Live Captivity were all tracked in spaces that anyone can have. The drums were recorded in the rehearsal room at Keith's house with our live equipment. That space is just a bedroom converted to a practice space. There's some acoustic treatment in the space, but it's a far cry from what most recording studios strive for.

Guitars and bass were tracked off of Colton's live rig as well, so what you hear on this recording is what you hear when we play live. Vocals were also recorded with a standard SM7B microphone, and that's it. Those tracking sessions were also at Colton's home studio. Finally, Colton mixed and mastered everything.

So why are we telling you this? Because we want you to know that IT IS REAL. We used no AI in the making of this music. We didn't even use samples on the drums, just to prove a point. We're not trying to brag about it; the takes are far from perfect, but perfect isn't the goal of this record.

We want to bring you something that is undoubtedly real. You got it. The other songs will be out shortly.

If you have been following us for a while, you know we haven't always been the best at posting content or music consistently. The systems that we have implemented now hope to change that.

The website is now self-hosted, self-governed, and customizable as we need— no social media push-and-pull to distract us (and yes, I actually typed that em dash lol). That was a huge goal for me personally because, as AI becomes more prevalent in the web space, humans will pull away from current websites. For example, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok already have hordes of AI-generated videos. That content swarms platforms, making them pointless to "live" on. All of this to say: I am betting social media will decay quickly over the next five years, so I want to put our chips elsewhere.

Enter Discord. Discord appeared like a little lightbulb in my mind when talking to Keith about this. It is social by nature: communities are open with tunable restrictions, there are no ads, and the server will grow at the pace that friends and fans want. So, combining Discord with our own website/ email list checked every box I had on the subject. We flirted with Patreon, and maybe one day we will try it, but as of now, I think that's scummy. At our level, our fans are largely our friends, and charging you all even $5 a month to see how we live and write doesn't resonate with me. So free Discord it is.

We have even been optimizing in areas you can't see. We have honed in on our current rehearsal space and studio setup so we can get as fast as possible from this point forward. We still want to take time and make a record the traditional way every year or so, but why not have a pipeline to record great audio and video on a whim? Then we can capture quick covers, original ideas, and more when we want, with little to no setup time required. We can confidently say that we have reached that point, and the music you are soon to hear from us was recorded this way.

Once school is done for me next month, I should be able to turn up the heat drastically on music creation with Keith. Let's claim the rest of 2026 for making good music and enjoying good shows.

\-Colton

By now, you have seen that Discord is up, but you haven't seen this site yet. We are still stress testing it in the background, but by the time you read this, the kinks will be all worked out.

We aren't trying to reinvent the wheel here; we just want to give our audience the best version of us possible. That means the best songs, best recording, and most overlooked, the best fan experience. Hopefully, between Discord, the website, and what is currently on social media, you'll receive that.

Patreon and other platforms are nice, but we would hate to ask you all for more money. Spending just to be included feels whack, so we will do that for free for as long as we can. On top of that, social media is getting overwhelmed with bots, spam, ads, and more useless garbage, so we would hate to have you fight through that mess just to see us.

Thank you so much for supporting us.

In a tale as old as musicians earning a living, we are grinding right along. The recordings are nearing completion, the mixes are already forming, but the live shows are gathering dust and cobwebs.

Between school, business, and life, we have been stretched about as thin as we can be, but as Keith says, "I didn't hear a bell."

The music is still there, still waiting to meet you, and we are doing our best to make that meeting happen faster.

People hear "Jackson, Tennessee" and think country music and Carl Perkins. They're not wrong, but they're not seeing the whole picture either.

This town sits at a literal and figurative crossroads. Blues came up from the Delta, Gospel came out of the churches, and Rockabilly caught fire at Sun Studio an hour down the road. Before anyone called it "rock and roll," the sound was already here, in bars and sock-hops and living rooms.

We were born and raised in this same soil. We've walked into the same buildings, faced similar challenges, and experienced similar realities. When you grow up in a town that helped shape a sound but never got the full credit, you learn that acceptance isn't all that important. You just play as loud as possible to whoever feels what you're feeling. Nobody's scouting Jackson for the next big thing, and that's exactly why the music comes out the way it does.

So when we say "angry music from the birthplace of rock n roll," that's not just a tagline, it's the truth.

Every week, there's a new tool that can write your lyrics, generate your album art, clone your voice, and book your tour. But we didn't pick up instruments because it was efficient; we picked them up because something inside us needed to get out.

Striving for excellence in the things we do IS human. Yeah, there will be bad notes, gear will fail, and we will never hit perfection, but we will hit excellence if we keep striving.

So while the world figures out what's "real" and what's generated, we'll be in the rehearsal room playing too loud and getting it wrong until we get it right.

We built a website. Not a Linktree. Not a highlight reel optimized for the algorithm. An actual plug-it-in-and-pray-it-works website. In 2026. Some people hear "website" and look at us like we said we're releasing on 8-track.

But here's the thing: we didn't start a band to live inside someone else's platform. We started a band to make noise on our own terms. Social media and other third-party-hosted "portals" are not as free as this.

So welcome to the new page. No pop-ups. No paywalls. No "content strategy." Just us, some code, and whatever we feel like saying. Imagine that.