So here’s more. Tour has still been good. We’re currently at Ed’s Aunt’s house in Pennsylvania, getting ready to depart for Connecticut. Excited to visit the Northeast, hit Canada and then head home. Here’s what’s been goin on the past week and a half.

We saw South of the Border. We stopped:

We walked around Raleigh one day:

We ate at Olive Garden one morning:

We walked around Richmond:

We played at the Canal Club:

We walked along THE canal:

Former Thieves at the Canal Club:

Baltimore:

Korean dinner:

Haircuts in Altoona:

Contemporary art in Altoona:

Sheetz country:

La Dispute soundcheck at the Altar Bar:

The bar:

Former Thieves at the Altar Bar:

Cave In at the Altar Bar:

Krazy Fest at 6 a.m.:

A few dates left, come out and see us!

Well I’ve been compiling all my photos from tour for one huge post, and here it is. Tour has been well, I think we can all agree that it’s nice to be out on a jaunt that we can look back and think of multiple good shows and nights. Thank you to everyone who has been courteous to us and made us feel at home.

Former Thieves at the Magic Stick:

Custom concave addition to our back bumper:

Merch spread:

Keepin it real in Dekalb:

Still being kept real:

La Dispute in Des Moines:

Kansas City:

Genghis Khan:

Arkansas: 

The most humbling experience of tour was visiting the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis:

Downtown Memphis:

The secret garden:

A true champion:

Sweet unused sound system in Savannah:

Historic Savannah:

As tour as tour gets:

A game of gentlemen:

Former Thieves in COLUMBIA, SC:

Downtown COLUMBIA:

The reason we breathe:

As we’ve said tour has been a lot of fun, a nice change of pace. Definitely come catch us on the remaining dates before our long summer off.

EDIT: We were in COLUMBIA. I was really tired when I typed this. My apologies.

We leave for tour Thursday.
We have new everything.
We’ll update this with funny pictures.
And maybe some not so funny pictures. 

Hey all,

Some of you may have noticed that we cancelled some of the shows we were supposed to play here in April, and this is just a brief explanation and apology to people involved with said shows. After playing a couple shows here earlier in the month, we realized that we were pretty burnt out, and in desperate need of a bit of time to help restructure what we are trying to do as a band, and get our heads back in the game. With our upcoming tour in May with La Dispute, Defeater, and Former Thieves fast approaching, we decided it would probably be best to do a bit of organizing to prepare. 

We are truly sorry to anyone that us canceling affected, including our buddy Rod who booked an awesome show this Saturday in Milwaukee (those of you who were planning to go should still do so), The Harmon brothers (Also throwing a super sick show on Friday), and our boys in Former Thieves. Their album just dropped and is getting rave reviews (as it should) and their record release is going to be out of hand, in a good way. 

Anyway, we are excited to see everyone in May, and hopefully we will have our shit together again, and be at a place we are much more comfortable with. See you then!

-Native.

I have a lot of pictures from this tour so I’m just going to post them with brief captions explaining them. All you need to know about this tour is that Caspian and Chiaroscuro rule, and we have great friends.

Snow in Texas? Ok:

Sarah “Sugar” Beth:

Canyons:

The Mad Hatter:

Sarah “Sugar” Beth:

Caspian at the Golden West:

Epic eats:

Skinnin da carrotz:

Playing games:

Playing games part 2 (he beat this in one session):

Jammin:

Chiaroscuro at Strange Matter:

Charlottesville:

Caspian at the Trinity Pub:

We hung out with the Bronzed Chorus and got gun fever:

Caspian at Snug Harbor:

Sesame Chicken buddies:

Forgot a couple of bands huh?..:

Chiaroscuro at The End:

Cutest dawg:

Table soccer:

Erin from Caspian hooked us up with some Jam action:

Winter Parks pool action:

Chiaroscuro table soccer action:

Great tour, great dudes, great times. Super bummed it’s winding down but we’re all excited to get home and do some work. Come see us in New Orleans, Baton Rouge or at SXSW!

Tumblr wasn’t working with me for a while and I couldn’t update my new photos from this tour. When I have a few moments to work I’ll do a mass tour update though. The shows with Caspian and Chiaroscuro have been awesome, can’t ask for better tourmates. See you in Gainesville, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and SXSW!

We left Scottsdale and headed eastward through Texas. Ed drove 11 hours straight. I’ve never seen anything like it. I think we can all agree that it was the lowest point of all our lives. Bad music, cold weather, and hilarious arguments. Ed at one point decided he was going to be a bounty hunter and put a bounty out on Dan’s head, who doubted him. At another point, the road had a reddish tint and Ed thought he was driving the magic school bus. So anyway, we spent 11 hours in the van. Here’s some really interesting and gripping photos, National Geographic status:

Deep stuff, I know.

Anyway now we’re in Austin at our great friends Colby and Courtney watching Ghost Adventures:

Hoping that one day Zak Bagans will come out to one of our shows. If you know Zak, please tell him about this band.

So our great friends Brianna, Jenna, and Cheyenne greeted us in San Francisco all the way from Salem, Oregon. This was definitely a very high point of tour, we love those girls. Day two in San Fran consisted of sight seeing.

Stoked!:

Bridge crossin:

Seriously breath-taking:

Check out Alcatraz hiding out in the fog:

I spent all morning trying to get a good shot of Alcatraz and then we ended up eating right next to it:

Spent a bit of time in the old coin arcade before heading to the show:

During the show we got to go across the street to check out Pirate’s Press, I was in heaven:

The following day we headed back to Huntington Beach and got dinner with Dan’s brother Neil and company:

Asian fondu:

Which we accompanied with more fro-yo:

Seriously miss this dude already, he’s on his way home from us:

The moral of the story is, we have great friends:

We spent a few nights here, had a great time. Got some great food and spent some quality time in a nice Travelodge. It wasn’t as cozy as the world’s smallest hotel room but it was definitely quaint.

Dan gettin real at dinner:

Keepin it real at Starbux:

Lovin on fro-yo:

Lovin on one another:

“You have 5 seconds to get out of this room, 5-4-3-2….”

Gettin book smart:

Keepin productive:

I sincerely apologize to anyone who follows this blog and was expecting an update with any substance. We’re going sight seeing today so that should provide a more fruitful post. In the meantime, for all your reading needs go here.

The title says it all, but we have a lot to catch up on.

We left Arizona with Dane Rick in the van:

We decided to hit up the Hoover Dam and got mad hassled:

I’ll spare you most of the touristy pictures I took, except a couple essentials:

“Give me a look like, ‘Hey we’re in Arizona’”:

From there we traveled on towards Las Vegas:

We played here:

The balcony had an awesome view:

Ed got fresh:

Our green room:

RXB gettin nastee:

After the show we made one more crucial stop:

Then we drove through the night to LA. Dan upheld tradition:

Sup Hollywood?:

Notice Libby and Suzy saying goodbye to us in the window:

Next up we played here:

The next day we did our dirty laundry:

Our boy Chase and our girl Britt went and took us cite-seeing. Saw the La Brea Tar Pits:

The next day we made our way to Seal Beach to eat dinner with Joe Troy:

We felt right at home:

Happy family:

Then he made dessert:

It was seriously dope:

Matt Embree eventually joined us and we hit the beach:

And Joe did some nastee yo-yo tricks:

The day after we hit up Fresno to play with some old friends:

And we stayed in the world’s smallest hotel room:

We played at UCSB in their amphitheater:

The campus is on a beautiful beach:

Pretty breath-taking:

We’re currently in San Luis Obispo enjoying the city. Really loving California this time around. Come catch us while we’re still on the coast!