I am really psyched to announce a new space I'm working out of, Pallet Sound. Pallet is located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, and features a big beautiful live room and a separate control room. We have lots of great microphones and some very rad outboard gear as well. If you're looking to make a record, please contact me at optionstheband @ gmail dot com

Title track of the new Great Deceivers EP that I recorded/mixed is finally up, along with 7" preorders! Check it out.

New Color posted a track from their upcoming EP, Happiness. It's out on 3/12, and it rules. I tracked the drums and vocals for it at Minbal.

Just dropped a few orders of Options stuff to the post office. Also found a few more shirts and updated the bandcamp webstore - once this particular iteration of the glow-in-the-dark shirts is gone, they're gone forever. More shirts will be made, but each run has different variations to keep things ‪#‎fresh‬.

Also, Coaster will be at SXSW, which also means Options 3-piece-rock-band will be at SXSW! If you can help either band with a showcase, I'd super appreciate it! Tryna play as much as humanly possible during my time in Austin.

Options band's next show is 2/11 at the Empty Bottle with Des Ark, which is very cool. We'll be playing some stuff from LP5 for the first time live!

what else:

- finally updated my Downwrite page, and streaming a new Options home demo there. If you've ever wanted me to write a custom song for you at a very relatively low price, click click click.

- Bathing Resorts' final EP is getting mastered

- Coaster's new EP is getting mastered

- I'm playing with Great Deceivers AND Nnamid's SDSSP this weekend at the same show

Ah, the faithful laundromat-update:
- Pyramid Scheme show tonight
- Recording with Great Deceivers next week
- A couple small things left to overdub for the Coaster EP, and it'll be in the can
- Getting my amp fixed so Options LP will sound better
- Mixing records for Single Player, Anthony Sanders, Winter Classic, and more
- LOTTA really really good shows coming up
- ok bye!

Coaster is playing with Ratboys, Bedroom Sons, and Cashed Out on Tuesday at the Keep. Here's some more information. Got some more really rad shows coming up with Coaster, as well as Options, Pyramid Scheme, and Nnamdi Ogbonnaya.

Bass and drums have been tracked for the next Options record, and I'm starting guitars tomorrow. Gonna be recording with nearly every band I'm in within the next couple of months, which is really exciting, and hopefully touring in the spring as well. Nature's Neighbor's 2nd full length was just sent off to get mastered, and I am really really stoked on the way it turned out. If you haven't heard Mike's first record Lifa, it's awesome and you should definitely take a listen.

quick update from the laundromat:

- Great Deceivers and Coaster both have shows comin' right up this month!
- I'm beginning tracking for the next Options LP in 6 days
- Mary at Rare-States did a 3rd printing of those neat Options glow-in-the-dark shirts! You can get one on Bandcamp
- Playing at Lincoln Hall for the first time on 12/18 with Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
- Pyramid Scheme will (finally) be recording songs within the next month