It's been nice and cozy in the studio, but we're more than ready to get back on the road for a proper tour! Austin's enchanter Walker Lukens will be joining us for many of the dates, with our good buddies from NYC Black Taxi finishing things off. All details and tickets links at our Tour Dates page.

9/6: Bowling Green, OH - Black Swamp Arts Festival
9/7: Bowling Green, OH - Black Swamp After Show @ Howard's Club H
9/12: Telluride, CO - Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
9/13: Telluride, CO - Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
9/13: Telluride, CO - Telluride Blues & Brews After Show @ Elks Lodge
10/3: Austin, TX - ACL Festival Late Night Show @ Emo's*
10/5: Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/12: Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival
10/16: Fayetteville, AR - George's Majestic Lounge*
10/17: Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom*
10/18: Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
10/19: Ames, IA - The Maintenance Shop
10/20: St. Louis, MO - Duck Room at Blueberry Hill*
10/21: Madison, WI - The Frequency*
10/24: Evanston, IL - SPACE*
10/25: Indianapolis, IN - Radio Radio*
10/26: Lansing, MI - The Loft*
10/27: Columbus, OH - The Basement*
10/30: Lexington, KY - Cosmic Charlie's^
10/31: Asheville, NC - The Mill Room^
11/1: Athens, GA - The Green Room^
11/2: Birmingham, AL - WorkPlay Theatre^
11/4: Jackson, MS - Duling Hall^
11/5: Baton Rouge, LA - Varsity Theatre^

*=with Walker Lukens Music
^=with BLACK TAXI

See y'all this fall!
Love,
TBLSH

Last night we found ourselves at the SB5 protest at the Texas State Capitol Building in Austin. After the vote went through we ran home, wrote and recorded this song and made the video with footage we took on our phones. Watch the video for "Wendy Davis":

Download for free here.

La lucha sigue y'all.
<3

Recently, the lovely Chris Apollo Lynn from Republic of Austin came out to our space and did this interview on our new music and recording approach. Be sure to check out the full piece, including rehearsal footage, here.

We've just been asked to support Dave Matthews Band's rescheduled show TONIGHT at the Austin360 Amphitheater! Tickets still available here. Doors at 5, we play at 7. See ya tonight!

A few months back while traveling through central Florida, we stopped into North Avenue Studios to record some tracks for Consequence of Sound/Off the Avenue. We're very excited to share with you two new tracks, "Ouroboros" and "Sea of the Edge." If I remember correctly, they only let us do one take of each song. Don't miss Jo losing his headphones and cymbal wingnut at the end of "Ouroboros."

Ouroboros:

Sea of the Edge:

We're hard at work on the never-ending process of finalizing the new songs, and we're very excited to announce that we've decided to produce our second album ourselves. After much soul-searching and research, we've decided to use the money saved and budgeted for album 2 to build a studio out of our place outside Austin. Curtis has an engineer friend who's about to leave to fish for salmon in Alaska and is generously lending us much of his paramount recording equipment, and we'll be putting together a ton of great vintage and tube gear. We're filling our place with analog synths and tube microphones, not to mention the preamp setup used on Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon and an outboard gear rack from late 1960's NASA (!!! - photos coming soon). We'll be spending the next month finishing the songs and putting the studio together and look forward to spending the summer making the record. Of course, releasing is a very long process, even once all tracking is finished, but we plan to get the record in your hands as soon as we can.

Throughout the process we'll be posting updates on our facebook and twitter pages, as well as here, so keep in touch! 

And we'll be taking breaks to play some incredible festivals this summer, including Hangout, Summer Camp, Wakarusa, All Good, FloydFest, Lollapalooza, Telluride Blues and Brews and a couple more GREAT ones to be announced very soon! All live performance info can be found here.

Big love,
Jack & The Bright Light Social Hour 

The good people at Fort Lauderdale's Tortuga Music Festival asked us to help spread awareness about ocean conservation. What we learned really affected us, Jo in particular:

Catch us at Tortuga Fest next weekend (April 13-14). 
Tickets: http://bit.ly/103bUan
A portion of ticket proceeds will benefit the Guy Harvey Foundation for ocean conservation!

We're extremely excited to announce we'll be playing this year's Lollapalooza Festival in Grant Park, Chicago, Il on Saturday, August 3rd!!

Live video 3 of 3 from our Stubb's Austin fall concert: yet-unreleased track "Infinite Cities"

Video by Roxwel
Audio by Danny Reisch
Lighting by Kat Rodgers

Live video 2 of 3 from our Stubb's Austin fall concert: encore performance of "Men of the Sea" and "Garden of the Gods"

Check back next week for the final video of a yet-unreleased song.

Video by Roxwel
Audio by Danny Reisch
Lighting by Kat Rodgers