Friends — I made a video game. Yes you read that right... You have 60 seconds to help the mystery man escape a UFO in a yellow fishing boat, off the coast of Cadaqués. Protect the mustache. game.thisfrontierneedsheroes.com It plays on a phone or a laptop, it takes a minute, and the song plays while you're out there. Tell me how many seconds you lasted — just hit reply. I want to know if I made it too hard. A few notes for the curious. The clocks floating in the water slow down time when you...
4 days ago • 1 min read
Friends — The new record is called Homage to Catalonia. It's my sixth, and it comes out in January. The next song from it arrives on 18 September. It's called "Cadaqués Cowboy," and it imagines Salvador Dalí as a spaghetti-western drifter — kind of an alien, but always playing with reality. Cadaqués is the white village up the Costa Brava where Dalí kept a house. You drive over a mountain to get there, and then the road simply stops, because there's nowhere further to go. I've been in...
12 days ago • 1 min read
Hey, Back in the spring I played a house concert up in Alella, in the hills outside Barcelona — vineyards on one side, the sea somewhere off the other. Twenty-odd people. Chairs carried out from the kitchen. No PA, no soundcheck. Three or four songs in I stopped worrying about whether the guitar was loud enough, because the room had gone that particular kind of quiet you only get when people are actually listening. You can hear it happen. It's the reason I keep doing these. People ask fairly...
20 days ago • 1 min read
Hey, The new album — Homage to Catalonia — comes out in January, with three singles leading into it in September, October, and November. But before any of that, I have to make a decision I can't undo: how many CDs to make, how much vinyl to press, and where on earth to ship it all from. So I'm asking you first, because you're the people who'd actually be holding one. Here's the honest situation. Now that I'm living in Europe, shipping isn't what it used to be. Sending a record from Spain to...
30 days ago • 1 min read
Hey, Today is Bandcamp Friday — one of eight days a year where Bandcamp waives their fee, so almost the whole price of anything you buy goes straight to me instead of getting split up along the way. I've been on the road through Italy this summer — the year's out. If you've just been meaning to grab something, today's the day that makes the biggest difference. Pick up an album, a single, or some merch at thisfrontierneedsheroes.bandcamp.com. Every purchase helps cover the gas, the ferries,...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey, The Italian tour wrapped up its Puglia run, and the folks at Almost Halloween Time Records have been filming the whole thing. Two new videos just went up, and I wanted you to see them first. "Carolina Peaches" — live at Barzak in Torre Santa Susanna (BR), July 24 "South Dakota" — live at Sotto l'Arco in Gioia del Colle (BA), July 18 And if you missed it a couple of weeks back, "How Leonard Cohen Learned to Play Guitar" from that same night in Gioia is still up too. Here's the small...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Hey, The first show of the 2026 Italian tour just happened — and it's already online. This is a live clip from Sotto l'Arco – Donna Clementina in Gioia del Colle (BA), opening night of the tour, organized by Almost Halloween Time Records and Stand Alone Complex. The song is "How Leonard Cohen Learned to Play Guitar" — one of my favorites to play, and even better live. There's something about this one in a room full of people that just hits different. The tour keeps going: 24/07 — Barzak,...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
I am in Puglia right now scouting out places to start the next songwriter residency, and playing some concerts. Some of you know that I got my italian citizenship through my ancestry so I went to my family's hometown to say hello and try to get my Carta D'identita. Which is my identity card. When I went to my scheduled appointment there was a sign on the door saying they were on vacation. So I wasn't able to to get it, but I was able to make a cool video playing my song "I Love Immigration!"...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Hey, Big news out of Barcelona this week — Ruta 66, Spain's longest-running rock magazine (since 1985), just premiered our first-ever immersive VR video. It's two songs from Go with the Flow — the title track and "Dumb It Down" — filmed live at El Barn d'en Greg in Rubí. No studio tricks, no green screen. Just the three of us in a room, captured in spatial video. The idea is to put you inside the song. If you've got an Apple Vision Pro, Meta Quest, or YouTube VR, throw on some headphones and...
3 months ago • 3 min read
