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Walter Etc. - There There is out now!

Happy to add another album into the Walter junk drawer :)

Hemingway - “Sure” 

New vid up now! Check out this bit of press they / we got at Washed Up Emo, cause PR is everything right?

Benny made this video himself and I love it, not only cause this is my current fav song on the album, but because he did a good job portraying the beautiful/dreary dichotomy of Portland, OR (and the seemingly endless struggle of trying to coordinate a Hemingway band practice?)

Hello world! 

For a guy who would naturally not do much social media if he wasnt in a band, there is so much social media to keep up with! But you know, MNE blog will always be the home base for #thoughtsandfeelings...

So Walter Etc. has this split with Diners that is streaming at Gold Flake Paint today. LISTEN TO IT HERE.

The Diners side is really beautiful and innovative. Tyler not only writes really catchy and charming songs, but his instrumentation is always quirky and fun, like a 20teen’s Beach Boys which of course I love. We are really stoked to get to share a release with such a legendary band. Hopefully we can do more together in the future?

I’m stoked on our side as well. I think the recordings are a little funny cause they sound good but also the cymbals sound washy and I would have mixed it a little differently if we had more time and blah blah blah. We recorded it with our good friend Marc at his home studio last January and had a blast making it with him. I wrote Night Swim pretty much write before we went into the studio which is normally not something we’d do, but with the LP already recorded we felt this freedom to really stretch our own boundaries and just see what happens. Also, Every Lousy Paradise was a song that was going to be on Every Town Needs A Cowboy but I never finished it. Then I finished it in Nicaragua in 2014 and we’ve just been playing it for ourselves since. I’m glad its gunna live on through this split. 

Welp there’s a record release show at The Echo in LA on 6/24 w/ Diners and Peach Kelli Pop and I think everyone should go to that. It’ll probably be low key legendary. HERE’S THE TICKETS TO THAT. It’s also super cheap which is chill.

Also you can buy the split from Lauren Records here. 

Also we’ll have it for sale on MNE very soon too. 

Okie have a good one everybody,

GROUP PICTURE VOL. 12 is up NOW!

Much love to all friends and foes reading this. 12 years of a worthlessly worthwhile tradition is really (not) something. Happy to share this with you! Click the lyric tab on Bandcamp next to the song for full info about each artist. 

New MNE album added to the catalogue today! Some mne heads might recognize the name Humphrey Orlando from many Group Pictures, well, last winter Humphrey gathered up guitar guru Stone, musical genie Toast, and tuneful hack Walter to come down and hole up in a house on Margaret St. to record his mad hatter musical musings.