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We're Playing Live at The Smithsonian American Art Museum!

We are extremely excited to be playing live at The Smithsonian’s Luce Foundation Center on the third floor of the American Art Museum on Friday, April 19th. The show is FREE.

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Meow Wolf Photos!

In honor of the recent news that Meow Wolf is coming to DC, here are some fun photos Lisa took at the Santa Fe location last year…..

'The Three of Us' from the 'Break-Up' Episode of This American Life

This American Life re-ran the ‘Break Up’ episode this week. Here’s a cover of ‘The Three of Us’ I recorded for a song contest they did when the episode first aired years ago.

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2017 Year End Spotify Mix

It’s that time of year again. I made another year end spotify mix with some of my favorite songs from 2017. As always, let me know what I missed. Enjoy!

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Video of "I Don't Know" Performance at The Kennedy Center

Here’s video of our performance of “I Don’t Know” at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage last month. Presented by Hometown Sounds.

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2016 Mix.

I’m keeping the tradition alive! I made a mix with some of my favorite songs from this year. I got a little carried away and it’s three and a half hours long. But in my defense, even though the world completely fell apart, a lot of really good music came out in 2016.

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Photos From our Kennedy Center Show

We got to play a show at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage last Friday! It was a really great night and we are very grateful to Paul and Tony from Hometown Sounds for setting it up.

Many thanks to Lisa for bringing her camera and taking some photos.

We're Playing The Kennedy Center!

We are incredibly excited to be playing a show at The Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage next Friday, December 9. Our good friends Paul and Tony at Hometown Sounds were kind enough to invite us to play and we're so stoked. We will also have a special guest. Our pal Gavin Fallow will be joining us on violin for part of the set, just to class things up a bit.

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We Were Pirates Songs From 'Matter' in New Chef Documentary, Hungry

A new documentary called Hungry was just released, and it features several songs from the newest We Were Pirates album, 'Matter.'

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Photos From a Secret Sofar Sounds Show in DC…

We played a secret Sofar Sounds show on Friday at Hillyer Art Space in Dupont Circle. Stay tuned for a video coming at some point. Thanks to Lisa Boggs for bringing her camera and taking a few photos. We had a great time...

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We Played REI DC's Grand Opening...

We had a blast playing a Rock-n-Romp show over the weekend for the Grand Opening of REI in DC with the homies Olivia Mancinia & the Mates and The NRIs. And Biz Markie played a little later. Yeah, that's right. We opened for Biz Markie.....kind of.

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Photos of our Jammin Java Show with Oh Pep!

Thank you to Lisa for again bringing her camera and taking some really great photos of our set at Jammin Java last week. And thanks to everyone who came out. We had a lot of fun. Oh Pep! and Micah were not only rad people, but played some quality music.

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Photos of our Charlottesville Show at The Garage!

Hey friends, We played a show last week in Charlottesville at The Garage and Lisa was kind enough to bring her camera along and take some photos. Also, Steph Faucher was there with her camera too and sent us her photos. You can view them on Facebook here. Thanks Lisa and Steph!!

We Were Pirates Interviewed on Morning Edition!

Hi friends,

As I mentioned in last week's post, Kate and I got to go to NPR headquarters in DC do an interview for Morning Edition. They posted it online and you can stream it here.

Local NPR Station WAMU Played ‘The Cheapening’

Thanks so much to our local DC area NPR affiliate, WAMU for playing 'The Cheapening' on Wednesday. I was actually listening at the time and got to catch it live. So cool. They're featuring all local interstitial music for the summer. It's been great hearing Oddisee, Deleted Scenes, The Sea Life.... Lots of really good stuff.

New WWP Album, Matter, Out Now!

Today is the big day! The new album, Matter, is out. You can get it now at: iTunes // Bandcamp // Spotify // CD Baby (physical cd) // Amazon mp3

2015 Mix.

Hey friends. I did that thing I did last year and made a Spotify mix with some of my favorite songs from 2015. I hope you dig it. Let me know what I missed….

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'Dear Mr. Watterson' Coming to DC & Baltimore...

Good news for all you Calvin and Hobbes fans in Baltimore and the DC area. There will be a couple of screenings of ‘Dear Mr. Watterson’ in the area and we’ll be playing some songs from the film score, live, before both screenings. And if people have questions, I’ll be sticking around to do a Q & A after each screening.

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