Quick missive about the latest happenings regarding my collaborations with Heather Christian: 1) June 1st we release our 8th Heather Christian & the Arbornauts album, Hymn. It was mastered at Abbey Road Studios and frankly it’s our strongest work yet. Can’t wait for this to get into your ears. 2) June 23rd: Come to NY premiere of Lemon at BAM! The film is Lemon, directed by Janicza Bravo and features Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, and Michael Cera. The soundtrack…

Playing with this monster band late night at Jazz Fest in New Orleans – Wed May 3 at DBA on Frenchman at 2am…

Click through to see details on the late night shows I’ll be playing during Jazz Fest in New Orleans this year…

Tue May 2 @ Howlin Wolf – 11:59pm – Playing the music of one of New Orleans’ legendary figures…

Sometimes you have a gut feeling about what could happen if you get a particular combination of people in the room to make music together – a feeling that it could be something really fun could go down. And that is exactly the experience I had this week with vocalist Sasha Masakowski (Trash Magnolia/Jason Lindner/Zach Danziger) and Jason Nazary (Little Women/Bear in Heaven). My friends in KOLARS were generous and trusting enough to let me open their record…

The next record from Heather Christian & the Arbornauts is now getting mastered at Abbey Road Studio as we speak. We actually recorded this album in 2012, but then ended up releasing 6 *other* EPs last year before getting a chance to finish mixing it. Here’s where you can find Heather’s albums. It’s the the second half of the double record House/Hymn, both done in collaboration with esteemed producer/engineer/mixer Brian Bender (who also produced the…