Kinda Mad

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 finished either.

This town sits at a crossroads — literally and otherwise. Blues came up from the Delta. Gospel came out of the churches. Rockabilly caught fire at Sun Studio an hour up the road. Before anyone called it "rock and roll," the sound was already here, bouncing off cinder block walls and rattling screen doors. The genre didn't get invented in a boardroom. It crawled out of places like this.

We didn't move here to be part of a scene. We're from here. And there's a difference. When you grow up in a town that shaped a sound but never got the full credit, you stop waiting for permission. You just play. Loud, if possible. Nobody's scouting Jackson for the next big thing. That's exactly why the music comes out the way it does — there's nothing to perform for except the song itself.

So when we say "angry music from the birthplace of rock n roll," that's not a tagline. That's an address.

Every week, there's a new tool that can write your lyrics, generate your album art, clone your voice, and book your tour. And honestly? Some of it is impressive. But we didn't pick up instruments because it was efficient. We picked them up because something inside us needed to get out, and a screen couldn't do it alone.

The wrong notes, the cracked vocals, the 3 a.m. arguments about whether the bridge works. That's what makes it real. AI can simulate art, but it can't simulate the reason you needed to make it.

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

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.