TOWNIE is out now. Casey and I are from a small college-town in central New York called Ithaca. We grew up restless, both fighting to be seen and heard. A place like Ithaca sometimes felt like it wanted you to disappear. Casey and I made music together in our basement and in our friend’s garages or sheds, and our teenage logic had us convinced that would be our ticket out. Somehow—in some crazy combination of ignorance, determination, and sheer luck—we we’ve found ourselves where we are today, very far away from our lives in Ithaca. But for some reason my mind keeps wandering back to this place that I so desperately sought to free myself from. Here I am: 35 years old, and I still feel like that insecure teenager with a prematurely-receding hairline and the weight of the world on his shoulders, who’s still scared of being left behind. Writing this album was me asking myself “why?” Here’s what I came up with: I am a Townie. I will always be a Townie. To deny that, is to deny everything that I am. And yes my town was small, but the people I grew up with never let me think that the world wasn’t big and exciting and out there for the taking. In my town I was loved, I was encouraged, I was accepted, I was challenged, I was knocked down and picked back up again a million times. It might not have been the cultural Mecca I dreamed about, but we had a pretty sick independent movie theater and more than one good coffee shop. The guys at the music store knew my mom, so they let me spend hours in there “testing out” guitars and pedals and recording equipment like I was actually ever going to have the money to buy anything. No one ever made me feel like an idiot for having dreams, or that my dreams couldn’t come true— only that they’d welcome me home with open arms if they didn’t. I’m so lucky to have grown up where and how I did, and so it feels like a very appropriate that, 18 years later, we’d be putting out an album that’s a love letter to Ithaca, to Upstate New York, and all the people in it. This is TOWNIE. For our town and yours. For the Townies in all of us.
TOWNIE is out now. Casey and I are from a small college-town in central New York called Ithaca. We grew up restless, both fighting to be seen and heard. A place like Ithaca sometimes felt like it wanted you to disappear. Casey and I made music together in our basement and in our friend’s garages or sheds, and our teenage logic had us convinced that would be our ticket out. Somehow—in some crazy combination of ignorance, determination, and sheer luck—we we’ve found ourselves where we are today, very far away from our lives in Ithaca. But for some reason my mind keeps wandering back to this place that I so desperately sought to free myself from. Here I am: 35 years old, and I still feel like that insecure teenager with a prematurely-receding hairline and the weight of the world on his shoulders, who’s still scared of being left behind. Writing this album was me asking myself “why?” Here’s what I came up with: I am a Townie. I will always be a Townie. To deny that, is to deny everything that I am. And yes my town was small, but the people I grew up with never let me think that the world wasn’t big and exciting and out there for the taking. In my town I was loved, I was encouraged, I was accepted, I was challenged, I was knocked down and picked back up again a million times. It might not have been the cultural Mecca I dreamed about, but we had a pretty sick independent movie theater and more than one good coffee shop. The guys at the music store knew my mom, so they let me spend hours in there “testing out” guitars and pedals and recording equipment like I was actually ever going to have the money to buy anything. No one ever made me feel like an idiot for having dreams, or that my dreams couldn’t come true— only that they’d welcome me home with open arms if they didn’t. I’m so lucky to have grown up where and how I did, and so it feels like a very appropriate that, 18 years later, we’d be putting out an album that’s a love letter to Ithaca, to Upstate New York, and all the people in it. This is TOWNIE. For our town and yours. For the Townies in all of us.
I’m so tired of trying to fight the feeling away
Raise your hand if you’ve been feeling a little fragile lately
Upstate Boys like us
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
Still processing what an amazing 5 months it’s been on the “Townie” tour. We love this album so much and we’ve loved playing these songs live for you guys more than anything we’ve ever done before. Every night felt like we were all just kids in the basement again, fucking around, making each other laugh, having deep conversations about nothing, eating 4-cheese Hot Pockets and JAMMING JAMMING JAMMING. Thank you all so much for coming out and for riding with us for the last 15 years. My lower-back is ruined but my heart is full. Taking a year-long epsom-salt bath now. BIG THANK YOU to our amazing crews across EU/UK/CAD/US and @rowan.drake & @newwest199x for joining us on the road. Love you guys. Also New music coming soon. -S
SOLO AT LOLLA THIS WEEKEND!!! Who’s coming? Bud Light show on Friday, BMI stage on Saturday, and Schuba’s on Saturday night with the incredibly sexy @briscoetheband . Hard to leave the house right now cuz Prince is too damn cute but we shall persevere.
SOLO AT LOLLA THIS WEEKEND!!! Who’s coming? Bud Light show on Friday, BMI stage on Saturday, and Schuba’s on Saturday night with the incredibly sexy @briscoetheband . Hard to leave the house right now cuz Prince is too damn cute but we shall persevere.
SOLO AT LOLLA THIS WEEKEND!!! Who’s coming? Bud Light show on Friday, BMI stage on Saturday, and Schuba’s on Saturday night with the incredibly sexy @briscoetheband . Hard to leave the house right now cuz Prince is too damn cute but we shall persevere.
1 YEAR OF FRIEND FOR LIFE. S/O TO THIS BEAUTIFUL HUMAN @mediumbuild
TOWNIE TOUR FOREVER…We’ve only been home for a couple weeks but damn we are already missing you all 😢 who’s coming to see our summer shows in Indianapolis and Urbana this September??? Link in bio for tix.
besties @kflay @grandson brought some zen to our final townie show in LA
We’re going down under for…AUSTRALIA 2025 🇦🇺 We are beyond excited to play some GORGEOUS outdoor shows @adayonthegreenofficial and some supporting the very talented @thescriptofficial!! Our artist presale for tix starts on Aug. 6th at 10am AEST, use passcode TOWNIE. Then general on-sale starts August 9th at 12pm local time. Link in bio for more info. See ya thurrrr
It was a labor of love capturing our return home to Ithaca and all the little moments in between that we’ll never take for granted. We love each and every one of you. PLEASE go watch this gorgeous video on @youtube and beyond grateful to Jack, Kieran, and Henry @trackstarshow for helping us tell this story!!! ❤️ we’re BAWLING
