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Dawes Fall Tour 2021

To our beloved audience, it is with excitement and delightment, that we are prepared to announce our first tour dates in for F#$@ing ever! It’s time to hang up our Zooms and get back in some non chat style rooms. We’ll be joined by Erin Rae! ON SALE NOW RIGHT HERE (check out the VIP option where available)

May 1st LIVE from the Roxy

We’re gonna do another live stream. Last time we filmed it a few days before (but didn’t edit anything so it was still very much live) to make sure we didn’t get screwed by some faulty internet cable or a camera guy panning to me during a Trevor solo or something like that…but this time we’re gonna throw caution to the wind and stream it completely live. Missed chord? Forgotten lyric? Tough shit. That’s what this business is all about. What you’ll be seeing will be what’s happening in real time. All killer, no filter.

It’s gonna be at The Roxy here in Los Angeles. One of the first stages we ever played on as kids. May 1st. Reserve your spot now at https://nocap.show/dawes

Things Happen (Celeste Version)

Big big news. We have decided to release at least ONE thing a month for (at least) the rest of 2021. Last month it was the little Free As We Wanna Be Single EP, this month it’s Things Happen (Celeste), next month it’ll be something else. We already have it scheduled months out. Could be singles, could be a few songs, could be whole collections. We just have so many artifacts that are just sitting around from these last 12 years that we figured it’s time they started getting shared.

Click to listen to ‘Things Happen (Celeste)’

About this recording: This one must have been recorded sometime in early 2015. It’s just me singing Things Happen alone accompanying myself with a Celeste. We recorded it as a B-Side for a CD single version of TH that was only available at record stores while we were doing a run of in-stores for release week. So it’s not likely that too many of you have had the chance to hear it. Hope you enjoy it! This is just the beginning!

Artwork by the Top-5 human being Kevin Hayes from the original photo shoot he did for the All Your Favorite Bands album art.

We Have A Podcast!

When we talk to each other about our band, or just music as a whole, I feel like there is an added depth and level of comfort than there is when we’re talking to someone outside the band (nothing against interviews…I just think that’s the nature of conversations between people who know each other intimately). And yet, I don’t think we’ve ever brought anyone else into those conversations. So I sat down with each member of the band individually over the last several months and had a conversation. This first one is with Griff. We recorded it months before GLWW came out. The album barely comes up but we ended up finding several enjoyable threads to follow. Hope you dig it too…
LISTEN TO ‘EPISODE 1’ HERE
(Like this podcast image, designed by Michael Carney? It’s available on a t-shirt RIGHT HERE)

Catch ‘Free As We Wanna Be’ Acoustic + Live

Today we’re releasing Free As We Wanna Be as a single along with an acoustic version and a live version LISTEN HERE

Single version: Since this baby already clocks in at 3 minutes, you’ll be hard pressed to find any differences between it and the album cut. But I implore you to give it a re-listen anyway in this new context as a “single” rather than a Track-8-On-A-9-Song-Album. Who knows, maybe you’ll love it more. Maybe you’ll hate it more. Either way, the tiny space it takes up in your brain currently is begging to be re-shaped by this new digital packaging. LISTEN HERE

Acoustic version: When the Powers-That-Be hit me up again to record some sort of acoustic version of this song to include in this extended-single/mini-EP, I thought, “With MY pro-tools home rig? With these plug-ins? With THESE mics? No thanks!” But then I remembered I bought a 1979 Tascam Portastudio 4-Track Casette Recorder about a year ago but was too fearful to figure out how it worked. Until now. I dug into the instruction manual, I plugged my mic into my reverb tank, the reverb tank into the Tascam and did my best. You’re gonna hear a good amount of hiss, some weird ghost flares (maybe something to do with power in my house?), and way in the background you can sorta hear when I’m cutting in and out of overdubs. Suffice it to say: it’s scrappy. But I love it. It feels like a living recording. It’s the first thing I’ve ever made on this 4-Track and I’m damn proud of it. LISTEN HERE

Live Version: This was recorded the same day we made our North Hills live stream (for you Dawesians out there that were able to catch that set and know what I’m talking about). It’s live from the amphitheater at Griff’s and my old high school. Last time we were there was Griffin’s graduation when we were a few months away from recording North Hills back in 2008. Looking forward to getting this tune on the road so the live version can get hairier and hairier, but it feels good to have a documentation of what it sounded like the 4th time we ever played it live. LISTEN HERE

Watch! Dawes on Stephen Colbert

Happy we got to play this one for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert! #playathome

Our New Album IS HERE!

IT’S OUT! GO LISTEN! WE ARE SO HAPPY TO RELEASE IT TO THE WORLD! WE HOPE YOU LOVE IT! #goodluckwithwhatever

Right Here: https://found.ee/GLWWAlbum

Drive-In Shows: Oct 16 & Oct 17

So we finally are gonna play a couple live shows. It’s a real big deal for us. First time in front of an audience since this whole thing began. They are drive in shows though, so everyone will be safe in their cars. Hope you can join us! October 16th at Drive In at Cal State San Marcos & Oct 17 at 88FIVE LIVE at Drive In OC.

Details at https://found.ee/DAWESlive

‘Didn’t Fix Me’ + Animated Video

Listen! Still Feel Like A Kid