#rinkside

Hockey Baratheons to kick off my brand new drawing challenge!

funny cover cheers to you !! 🍸

Vansire, the project of Minnesota musicians Josh Augustin and Sam Winemiller, crafts breezy indie pop songs that feel modest in a Midwest way yet intricate and sticky, capable of hooking themselves onto spaces and emotions without receding into the background.

Since high school, coming up on 2010s chillwave and slacker rock listening to artists like Beach Fossils and Toro y Moi, their knack for melody and atmosphere has developed naturally across a catalog of beloved, self-produced and self-released albums and EPs, international tours, and genre-crossing collabs from Barrie and MUNYA to Pink Siifu and Mick Jenkins.

Today, ahead of Friday's album release, the Minneapolis duo leans into today's calendar flip to June and the poolside vibes of the coming months on the new single "Rinkside."

Taking Solace

The duo’s latest LP, Taking Solace, is set for release this Friday June 5th, and finds them reaching for love as a means of comfort and connection, a balm as society’s edges ever-sharpen.

Toeing the line between melancholy and optimism with some of their strongest, most mature and straightforward songwriting, Vansire frame the act of taking solace as valid, positive, even political as needed in 2026.

Less of a band more of a task force

@joshaugustin @samuelwinemiller