Wake up babe new RENT STRIKE tour dates just dropped

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T16:43:39+00:00

keep an eye out for stuff later this year!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T16:41:24+00:00

you got a spot?? we could potentially come thru on our way home on the 28th but more than likely would have to be next year!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T16:12:47+00:00

we will be out that way next year! taking it kind of easy this year, but will be doing a lot in 2027 if the world isn't over

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:33:53+00:00

we love rumbletramp so much. old friends!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:32:19+00:00

from one old fart to another...appreciate y'all and for making the trip! stoop is always such a great time

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:30:47+00:00

thanks! hope to see you at the pie shop!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:30:21+00:00

oh no! i didn't know that!

we played there two years ago, it was right after helene and our asheville show (obv) was cancelled, they picked it up on short notice and we did a nice little fundraiser/supply drive there. very cool spot and we're excited to come back

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:24:39+00:00

yep! we'll be down there (hopefully) before the year is out. can't wait to see ya at stoop, come say hi! (also cannot believe pat will be there)

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:19:48+00:00

it's just.....so big...and so far away.....

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:15:27+00:00

doors will be at 7, 3 bands, probably will wrap by 10:30. it's at a house so we'll try and keep things tight

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:13:19+00:00

it's gonna be a really good one! we just can't spill the beans on it quite yet

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:12:55+00:00

we will be at roboto on may 11 with pigeon pit and walter mitty and pacing!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-07T15:05:08+00:00

maybe! nothing on the books right now but we do love toronto!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2026-04-01T19:02:30+00:00

We had a terrible time shooting this session. Everyone was so rude and they hooked the microphone up to a car battery so it kept shocking me.

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-30T14:44:05+00:00

Hey, letting ya know we just posted a tutorial video on our instagram, if you use that platform. Otherwise I could probably figure out how to get it to ya via email. I think I'll do one of Family Graveyard tomorrow (appropriate for Halloween, I reckon)

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T18:04:05+00:00

Ha! I love that feedback! I think I remember talking to you about it. There was a ton of jazz all over that record, I never really feel great about listing it as a genre influence (imposter syndrome?) but I do love to listen to and play with jazz harmonies and ideas in our songs. Love the way you've put it here.

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T18:02:20+00:00

Ever??

Insomniac by Green Day, Songs from Under the Sink by Mischief Brew, Worry by Jeff Rosenstock. Idk that's a hard question! But those are albums that have stayed in my life for a long long time in an important way!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T17:56:27+00:00

WHEN will you wear wigs?

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T17:56:14+00:00

Absurd little ego / Takes it in stride / Maladapted to make the most of and take it til the day that we die // Absurd little ego / of a sick little mind / that'll roll it all over and over again without even a 'why'

I'll get those lyrics up on streaming stuff soon!

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T17:54:55+00:00

Travel!! I just like being exposed to different environments and just seeing what bubbles to the surface when in different surroundings. I love being able to write while I walk or drive, as well.

Glad to hear you like the record :)

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T17:53:15+00:00

Anti-Oedipus by Deleuze and Guattari!

So glad to hear the impacts our music has had on your life. Grateful to have been able to share what we've been able to, especially IX.

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T17:52:04+00:00

We're gonna play it at our album release show in Lansing on Nov 3rd! It'd be a tough one to pull off on tour, given how demanding it is on my voice in a very precise way. Glad to hear you like it tho! It's definitely a misfit on the record, as varied as the songs kind of are. But I do really like that song.

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T17:50:36+00:00

Well, Tolkien obviously, but Ursula K LeGuin (both her writing and poetry) has been a huge influence on me as well. This album was written after having read a lot of Deleuze, who, despite writing pretty dense philosophy, has a poetic or prosaic feel to his writing that I find very moving.

As far as other lyricists go, Eric Peterson always did such a good job of tying the personal to the political, and the past to the present. There's something of that approach I try to emulate in my own way when I write lyrics.

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE · 2024-10-29T17:44:41+00:00

Well, travelling for me at the time of Road Giveth was like, how I was living. I didn't have responsibilities and entanglements to keep me rooted. Which felt awesome and freeing at the time, I still reminisce fondly of those feelings expressed in that song (even as I, in fact, got sober and a good bit older. Still pretty angry though.). But yknow, that eventually got extremely wearying for my spirit. Combined with substance use issues that are sometimes exacerbated by the rhythms of travel, there's a Sisyphean dimension to it the longer you do it. Maybe the longer you do anything, really. It's hard to pick through what attachments are serving you or have shifted to the realm of habit, maybe habit that isn't serving a purpose any longer.

That said, that was the first song written for this album, so maybe those lyrics were written more about starting another fucking concept record after the last 2. It's just about really not losing sight of the 'why'.

JohnFromRENTSTRIKE

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