Hello, everyone!!! My goodness, it’s been a while! The past several months have been… different. We don’t know about you, but we’re ready for some live music again! To that effect, we’ve resumed booking, with gigs beginning this week (check the ‘Shows‘ page for details). We’ve got a handful of shows on the books for September, and we may slowly ramp things up over the next couple months, including hopefully scheduling a version of our annual holiday tour. We’ve missed…Read More
Fans and friends: We are now selling Currys merchanise online! T-shirts, hats, cups, coozies–they are all now available for purchase at our bandcamp site. Check out the store to see if there’s a new item to add to your collection or gift opportunities for your friends and family. If you’re looking to purchase music, you should check out our digital vendors like Amazon. For a physical copy of the CD, we recommend CD Baby. And you can always stream the…Read More
Hi. This is me procrastinating. Procrastination is a crafty adversary, often taking the form of a seemingly productive activity. It ever so slyly suggests that you clean the dishes, or respond to emails, or call your mother, and in so doing it deflects your attention from the task of greatest importance. Contemporary folk rocker Joe Pug invites his audience to tune in to his “Working Songwriter” podcast every month with some version of the following hook: “Ultimately, you listen to…Read More
It has been a few weeks since the events of August 12 in Charlottesville, Virginia, left us all bewildered and dismayed. I have struggled to understand the emotions I experienced that day and since. I have struggled to digest what I saw and heard, as the cacophony of voices in response grows louder, each defining this moment in their preferred terms. I have struggled to confront the nuance of an event that has been absorbed into a million different pet issues and reported from all sorts of political…Read More
2016 has drawn to a close, and we here at Currys Music LLC are taking a moment to reflect on a long, complicated year. As always during the holiday season, the temptation arises to wax poetic. I’m going to indulge, briefly, in a bit of sentiment: Viewed from 30,000 feet, 2016 was a tumultuous year. The globalism that accompanied the dawn of the Internet age has been undermined by a resurgent nationalism, as legitimate concerns about economic and national security mount around the world. Genocide…Read More