The Mynabirds Tiny Desk concert is up now. It was a pretty incredible experience getting to sing back up for my extremely talented cousin, Laura Burhenn, and meet a bunch of new friends. Thanks to Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, & everyone at NPR Music for having us!
Read MoreHere’s video of our performance of “I Don’t Know” at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage last month. Presented by Hometown Sounds.
Read MoreI’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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreA new documentary called Hungry was just released, and it features several songs from the newest We Were Pirates album, 'Matter.'
Read MoreWe 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...
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreThis American Life has a new app out called Shortcut that lets you create clips from the show. Here's a throwback to the time they played, 'A Strange Experience' from the Dear Mr. Watterson score. It's a great episode on an important topic. You can listen here.
Read MoreHey 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!!
Read MoreHi 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.
Read MoreThanks 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.
Read MoreOH PEP!
WE WERE PIRATES
MICAH SUBAR
Thursday, July 7
$12 // All Ages
NPR's Morning Edition recently put out a call for musicians to re-imagine their theme music, and I finally had a chance to throw something together. Kate Rears Burgman came through with the cello and I played/recorded the rest of the instruments in my home studio.
Read MoreCharlottesville! We are very happy to be coming back to play a FREE acoustic show with our buddy, Michael Coleman. We were fortunate to get to share the stage with him a couple years ago. Looking forward to another great night at The Garage.
Read MoreToday 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
Read MoreThe video for ‘Matter’ is up now!
Read MoreHi friends,
Last year while I was working on the new record, ‘Matter,’ I was spending a ton of time playing instruments and hunched over my computer recording/ programming/ mixing/ tcob/ etc…. Eventually my body got all bent out of shape about it (get it?) and my wrists and arms starting bothering me.
Read MoreJust wanted to let you know, you can snag a copy of the new single, ‘Matter,’ on iTunes and Amazon now! You can also stream it for free on Soundcloud. Thanks!
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