Luke Reynolds :: Blog

Published: May 10, 2012

DR JOHN AT BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC

New Dr John video, shot earlier this spring at BAM.

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Published: May 4, 2012

RIP MCA

I am so sad to hear that MCA has died.

I was in the tracking room cutting evidently when he passed from this world and into the next one. I had just stepped out to clear my head and was grabbing a coffee across the street, Sabotage was playing on speakers and I stared up at the speakers, thinking of all the hours I spent listening to Ill Communication as a teen. When I stepped back into the studio, I learned that he had died. RIP and better next life to you Adam. I love you and your music and all that you stood up for.

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Published: April 6, 2012

TWEEDY

Tweedy and his family stopped by the Vic last night to see their friend Jeff Garlin before the show. He was super easy to talk with, and it was cool to catch up a bit about the different projects we’re both working on, until it was time for us to hit.

Can’t say how happy I was to finally meet him having admired his work for so long. Maybe we’ll collaborate on something together down the line. I sure hope so.

Thanks again to Chicago for such a good show last night, and to Garlin and Rosenworcel for their final words of encouragement this morning, to buck up and buy the Surly Long Haul Trucker I’d been sweating.

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Published: April 1, 2012

NEW M. WARD RECORD

Can’t believe how much M Ward’s music has meant to me the past five years. So glad the new album is almost here.

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Published: March 31, 2012

SPRING TOUR PHOTOS

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Published: March 6, 2012

GUSTER SPRING TOUR DATES

Hey gang,

I’m packing for spring tour and heading to the airport with Rosenworcel in a couple of hours. We start rehearsals with the Colorado Symphony first thing tomorrow morning. Can’t believe it. Below is a list of our spring acoustic tour dates. For complete info of where to buy tickets, ride share, etc, please head to the GUSTER TOUR DATES PAGE. Hope to see you all out on the road.

Luke

03/08/2012 Boettcher Concert Hall. Denver, CO
Special performance with Colorado Symphony Orchestra
Buy Tix | Rideshare

03/10/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Submarines
@ In The Venue. Salt Lake City, UT
Buy Tix ($28) | Request A Song | Rideshare

03/12/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Submarines
@ The Neptune Theater. Seattle, WA
Buy Tix ($28) | Request A Song | Rideshare

03/13/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Submarines
@ The Alladin Theater. Portland, OR
(18+) Buy Tix ($28) | Request A Song | Rideshare

03/14/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Submarines
@ The Palace Of Fine Arts. San Francisco, CA *SOLD OUT*
Request A Song | Rideshare

03/16/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Submarines
@ Largo at the Coronet. Los Angeles, CA *SOLD OUT*
Request A Song | Rideshare

03/18/2012 festEVOL @ Crested Butte Mountain Resort. Crested Butte, CO
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03/25/2012 festEVOL @ Okemo Mountain Resort. Ludlow, VT
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03/28/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Yellowbirds
@ The Egg Center. Albany, NY
Buy Tix ($27.50) | Request A Song | Rideshare

03/29/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Yellowbirds
@ The Keswick Theater. Philadelphia, PA
Buy Tix ($30) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/01/2012 festEVOL @ Mount Sunapee. Newbury, NH
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04/03/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
@ The Kent Stage. Kent, OH
(18+) Buy Tix ($25) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/04/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
@ Sheldon Concert Hall. St. Louis, MO
Buy Tix ($30) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/05/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ The Vic Theater. Chicago, IL
(18+) Buy Tix ($35) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/06/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ Pantages Theater. Minneapolis, MN
Buy Tix ($39) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/07/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ Pabst Theater. Milwaukee, WI
Buy Tix ($31.25) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/16/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour feat. Guster String Players
Opening band: Yellowbirds
@ State Theater. State College, PA
Buy Tix ($30) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/17/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ Paramount Theater. Huntington, NY
Buy Tix ($35) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/18/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ The Lincoln Theater. Washington, DC *SOLD OUT*
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04/19/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ Tarrytown Music Hall. Tarrytown, NY
Buy Tix ($35) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/20/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ Paramount Theater. Boston, MA *SOLD OUT*
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04/21/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar (2PM Matinee Performance)
@ Paramount Theater. Boston, MA
Buy Tix ($39.50) | Request A Song | Rideshare

04/21/2012 Guster Acoustic Tour w/ Jeff Garlin & Mat Edgar
@ Paramount Theater. Boston, MA *SOLD OUT*
Request A Song | Rideshare

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Published: January 6, 2012

JESSIE BAYLIN + RICHARD SWIFT

My buddy Jessie has a new album coming out January 17 called Little Spark and it’s fucking amazing. Drop what you’re doing and go get it now. If you don’t have money, I’ll loan it to you. For real. It’s so good. Her album and two of my other favorite records this past year (Damien Jurado and Cults) were both made by the same producer, Richard Swift (Shins, Mynabirds). It’s perfect music.

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Published: January 5, 2012

GREG LEISZ

One of the musicians I most look up to, Greg Leisz at Fairfax Recording in Los Angeles, CA.

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Published: January 2, 2012

MY YEAR END TOP 10 SONGS

As usual, if you were looking for it, there was alot of good music that came out this past year. Some new, some rereleased. Here are my top 10 favorite songs I never grew tired of, in alphabetical order.

Remember, if you like these bands, please support them. It’s super easy to do and by supporting the arts, you’re taking an active role in ensuring artists can keep creating.

Damien Jurado – Cloudy Shoes

The Drums – What You Were

Gillian Welch – The Way It Will Be

Panda Bear - Slow Motion

The Poison Tree – Lesson For You Kid

The Radio Dept – Where Damage Isn’t Already Done

Real Estate – It’s Real

The Smith Westerns – Be My Girl

Washed Out - Soft

Wilco – One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend)

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Published: December 9, 2011

THE 7 TRAIN SESSIONS

Last week about thirty of us hopped on the 7 train, which runs from Manhattan out into Queens, to shoot film, roll video and perform songs written and or recorded by, musicians from the borough. I chose one of my musical heroes and Queens native son, Paul Simon and sung, That Was Your Mother off one of my favorite albums of all time, Graceland. Enjoy.

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Published: October 23, 2011

FRIED ONIONS

Los Angeles October 2008

It’s my first night in a new apartment in Los Angeles California and it’s night time. I’ve just gotten in from the first day of rehearsing with a new band. That’s new. It’s dark outside. My computer is set up on a cardboard box in the corner next to piles of books and an open door which leads to a balcony overlooking the street below. I’m frying onions on the stove and catching a buzz off this first glass of wine. The onions on the stove, a shiny white thing, sit off to my left and I can hear them bubbling and popping in the frying pan. The house smells like fried onions. I’ll eat them with eggs and tortillas and black beans for dinner.

I was used to my old stove in Portland Oregon that we cooked on all summer. My girl and me lived in that apartment. I knew how long it took to heat a pan up, how long it took to boil water. Knowing how to change things like an oil filter on a friends car, or how to quarter an elk with an axe and a saw, those are things I learned from experience. It’s different down here in L.A. Up the street from where I am now, there’s a Lamborghini dealer. I doubt the kind of people who’d buy a Lamborghini, know how to do either of those things.

One winter, I spent Christmas in a log cabin about the size of a pickup truck in Montana. We had a wood stove, and about five feet of snow on the ground. I woke up one morning, with exactly an hour and a half until I had to be anywhere. Outside it was well below zero. I put logs on the fire until it was so hot in that little cabin, I had to open all the windows up. I fried onions for breakfast in a cast iron pan, on a cast iron stove. It took so long. This stove is different.

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Published: September 6, 2011

FIVE HOT WEEKS IN THE LOINS OF SUMMER

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Published: August 26, 2011

DEAR NEW ORLEANS

I know there are a lot of different ways for you to show your support these days, but this one’s close to my heart. From August 25th until August 31st, the ‘Dear New Orleans’ benefit album is only $6 in observance of the 6th anniversary of Katrina. I was honored to lend my voice in support of this record, and picking up a copy is a super easy and effective way to support the entire NOLA community and the Gulf on the 6th anniversary. Proceeds from the compilation benefit Gulf Restoration Network and Sweet Home New Orleans. For more info here:

Music on the compilation from The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Blind Pilot, Steve Earle, My Morning Jacket and many others. Check it out.

Thanks!

Luke

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Published: August 26, 2011

HURRICANE IRENE FORECAST

Trying to make alternate plans to fly back out onto tour Sunday night, since hurricane Irene is forecasted to hit New York City this weekend with sustained winds of 80-100mph and 10-12″ of rain.

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Published: August 25, 2011

WASHED OUT

This record became my soundtrack during a 48 hour, all nighter last week down south. Now I’m back in Brooklyn for three days off mid tour and am sitting in a rocking chair my dad built me out of a cherry tree, looking out the window of my apartment, playing this song so fucking loud the floors are shaking.

Washed Out is from Perry Georgia, where he and his wife now live (and where he also grew up) and he made this album at home under the radar. Thanks to my bandmate Mitchell Spinach for turning me on. I’m in love.

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Published: August 13, 2011

GUSTER BOSTON SHOW

Last night in Boston, SNL’s Will Forte came out to join us for a version of Foreigners “I Want To Know What Love Is”.

As much fun as you could ever have in under five minutes without…

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Published: August 2, 2011

TIMBERLAND MUSIC + SUMMER GUSTER TOUR

Dear friends,

Well, it’s that time of year again and the Guster crew has re-assembled from all corners of America to build Ryan a disco ball helmet, work up a cover of an Air Supply song for Brian to butcher (I mean sing) and resume our touring diet of Twizzlers, coffee, Lucky Charms and hummus.

Timeberland (the Outdoor company, not the rap producer) is running a music component to their site showcasing “new” bands and I’m the featured artist for the month of August. You can find out more HERE and take a look at this nice stoney Youtube thumbnail of my face and download yourself a free track off of Maps.

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Published: July 18, 2011

THE LIVING ROOM

L to R | Bob Hart, Luke Reynolds, Kenny Wollesen, Tony Scherr

SETLIST

BETTER OFF

CREOLE BELLE

IT’S YOU

ONE WOMAN MAN

FLAOTING IN SPACE

THE SOUND OF LIFE MOVING ON

100 DIRECTIONS

SPACE BETWEEN THE LINES

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Published: July 13, 2011

AUSTIN TEXAS

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Published: July 7, 2011

CIRCLES + LINES AND PATAGONIA MUSIC

Circles + Lines is currently featured on the Patagonia Music homepage in addition to Floating In Space, which launched earlier this year, in an effort to help raise awareness for environmental stewardship and wilderness conservation, as part of their New Music Stream. Patagonia has been supporting my music since I made the Pictures And Sound LP back in 2008 and I’m super psyched to be included in the program. Find out more by clicking here.

Me in my favorite blue Patagonia puffy on tour in Minneapolis.

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