May 27, 2025, 158 Ludlow St, New York, NY

May 27, 2025, 158 Ludlow St, New York, NY
Hide and Shine’s second double-album has been mixed by the illustrious Matt Wallace (The Replacements, Faith No More) and will be released June 20, 2025. It contains another big collection of art/death/indie/post-punk/country/rock alternatives.
At this point, the Silos are considered a national treasure of American rock music. They were alt-country and post-punk before there even was such a thing. We are looking forward to sharing the stage with our long-time friends.
These folks in Parksville, NY are doing something so great. For anyone who remembers a time when a “scene” meant that creative people were transforming a place by filling it with art and music, having a blast and leaving the bullshit out of it… This is it. It’s happening here. Thanks to everyone.
It was a pleasure to see this — the second show in 26 years for Folk Implosion. It was a sparkly GIFT to be able to open for them!
The band had a great performance, an in-depth interview and sold some records on Talk Shop Live.
Check out the full video here.
As legend has it, this record started as a “psychic download” of 50 song ideas. A fantasy about having Steve Albini mix the album became a shocking and wonderful reality.
The music is being described as “Genre Fluid,” “UAP (Unidentified Audio Phenomena)” and “Artdeathcountryindiealternativerock.”
The next album is already underway.
May 08, 2024 — If the duty in this life is to do good work, and help others do good work before we leave, Steve Albini clearly did the right thing. He is leaving behind a stellar legacy of truly outstanding work. We are SO grateful that we had the privilege of working with him before he parted. It’s always strange and unsettling when the good ones go too soon. Let’s all spend a week listening ONLY to his recordings. Play it as LOUD as you can stand it. Let’s send him off with raucous sounds and big black memories.
This was supposed to be recorded as a soft, subliminal message in Mindless Apparition—track #7 on Hide and Shine’s debut Soft Machines:
In a metal cage on a sunny day, I begged them please—might I again be a useful slave? I’ve been faithful but for that one mistake—those thoughts I had while bathing in the real mountain stream. Electrical dreams don’t always satisfy the hungry human specter. But I promise… I promise… I retched all that is real, forcibly from from my heart. We can restart.