that drip you get in the back of my head as we spin in place and quit our jobs

cerebral distillate 20.wav

from the self-titled debut album:
forestlike.bandcamp.com/album/forestlike

all into the day in an awful hurry
ignore whatever they say and enjoy the journey
for all the mistakes i have made
have tamed and refined my wild ways

be bright enough to see it's a dim lit hallway
have a look through trees, they are not in the way
all of these things i'd like to be
more than enough for you and me

don't you be like that
killing time, living bad
i know the day is new
this battle cry was made for fools
and they want to phone it in
they want to dream again

forestlike

all into the day

Recorded Dec 2024 for Jon Solomon's 25-hour Holiday Radio Show Marathon on WPRB.

XO,
josh & garth

http://marathon.christmas // http://therutabega.com

i need a hug

During the final hour of the 2015 edition of the 25-Hour Holiday Radio Show on 103.3 fm WPRB, my daughter Maggie joined me on-mic for her annual appearance.

Jon & Maggie on WPRB (2015).

The Bliss Point is the second EP by Mint Mile. 

The record was made in Chicago with some crucial bits applied in Portland, Oregon. 

We like four-song EPs because we cannot bury a song in the middle of Side B. Nothing is transitional. Everything either leads off or finishes an experience. 

We are on an endless search for the optimal conditions of existence. Comfort, companionship, warmth. Gentle insistence. A lack of manufacture. To convince ourselves that we are alive and we make the most of our time. To fail to regret, to avoid the sense on our deathbeds (if we're lucky and have them) that we spent too much time focused on the wrong things. To be not always distracted, not always preoccupied, but if lost to lose ourselves in love and joy. To take in the world raw, as wide and wonderous and ugly and terrific as it is. 

So that's what this record is about. 

Hope you enjoy it. 

Tim Midyett 
Chicago 2016

MM on this record is: 

Tim Midyett (Silkworm, Bottomless Pit) - vocals, baritone guitars electric and acoustic, piano, bass on Youngold, ARP, writing, some engineering and mixing 

Matthew Barnhart (Tre Orsi) - bass except Youngold, most engineering and mixing 

Jeff Panall (Songs: Ohia) - drums 

Andy Cohen (Silkworm, Bottomless Pit) - regular electric guitar 

Howard Draper (Tre Orsi) - lap steel on Speed/Bellflower/Park, organ, that burbly broken synth on Youngold 

Justin Brown (Palliard) - steel guitar on Park/Youngold

The Bliss Point

Mint Mile - "City Of Speed Traps"

cyberspace is our playground.

watch official video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NWmQ_EiUXA

Somewhere In Your Nights. (Video in Bio)

A cover of the Counting Crows' "Colorblind" featuring the beautiful vocals of Misery X.

Counting Crows - Colorblind (Ft. Misery X)

From the debut album, "Grounded". Available now on Bandcamp and on all streaming platforms and digitial stores on 5/31.

Nothing

Sense

Adieu

<i>"Very few bands make even one great album. Silkworm made several, and this is the first."</i> - <b>Steve Albini</b>

Comedy Minus One announces a long-overdue deluxe reissue of Silkworm's out-of-print 1994 album "<a href="http://comedyminusone.com/019.php" target="_new">Libertine</a>" (cmo019), the third and final full-length record by the band as a quartet. 

This is a double 12" pressing with a supplementary CD including "The Marco Collins Sessions" as well as two additional recordings from the band's time at Pachyderm Studio.

Includes all-new artwork throughout (the revised cover is pictured at the top of this post) plus a full color insert with liner notes by Silkworm's Tim Midyett.

Mastered from the original 1/2" tapes by Bob Weston at <a href="http://www.chicagomasteringservice.com" target="_new">Chicago Mastering Service</a>.

Photographs by Mike Hoffman, Jr.

Layout and design by David Babbitt.

Pressed on 150 gram 45 rpm vinyl at <a href="http://gottagrooverecords.com" target="_new">Gotta Groove Records</a>.

Preorders are <a href="http://www.comedyminusone.com/blog/?p=477" target="_new">available NOW</a> and will be available until June 11. 

There are three preorder tiers, the most expansive of which includes nearly two hours of previously unheard SKWM live recordings plus a shirt, bonus 12", photograph and sticker. You can learn more <a href="http://www.comedyminusone.com/blog/?p=477" target="_new">here</a>.

In stores Fall 2013.

Silkworm - "Couldn't You Wait?"

http://therutabega.com
http://theseknottylines.bandcamp.com

i need a hug

the rutabega