twice is nice but three times is just right

it's true!

we're playing another show on the 12th at the rock n roll house in logan square (dm us on instagram or email us for the address!) with trees will return, rural king and aaron thomas. 10 bucks suggested donation, all ages, house show, door at 8pm and we go on at 8:30, everybody wins. unfortunately our dear dylan can't make it so our buddy gabe from mail. is learning our set for the night like a champ. if you're looking for an event to witness before you retire to your lounge in a silken robe to listen to morrissey records, you couldn't find a better option.

armageddon come armageddon come
milo

out past the electric lines

our second ever, but first show in our own city will be at the color club on march 30th with slug rug and autofill! it'll be dylan's first show with us and we'll be playing some stuff heretofore unheard by the general public. 10 bucks, all ages, doors are at 7:30pm and we're on at 8, so don't be late! come see us and talk to us and feel the inexplicable breeze through your hair and wonder, "just where exactly is that breeze coming from? i'm indoors!" and we will stare back, unspeaking and unflinching, but answering nonetheless.

nonetheless
milo

tornado country beat allen lumber into mud ponds

what's popping!

it's been a long time since i posted anything here, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy! two big ones: we got our own practice space at the start of this month. it's more than paid for itself already and it feels great to work in there. as a result, we also started recording the album for real for real this time! it's coming together pretty great despite a couple setbacks (the other night, i simultenously fried my recording interface and my favorite overdrive pedal. some really impressive production strategies happening), and i'm feeling excited about it. the drum tracks sound INCREDIBLE. here's a kind of crappy video showing the space off:



second, we now have the honorable dylan clancy playing bass! he's so great and the songs are sounding better than ever. i don't know if he knows this website exists yet, so i get to gush over it in secret. really really cool, funny dude and an insanely fast learning bass player. salutations to nathan mcmurray for playing with us in milwaukee and for writing a couple slick lines that are shaping up to be featured on the album.

the plan for the next couple months is to keep on recording the album, practice a ton, and get as many shows under our belt as we can. there's a few things relating to that last one in the works.... anyways.

end transmission
milo

one dollar eighty nine at stewart's and a few minutes later

hello! we are back home from the milwaukee show on saturday. we took the amtrak there and milled around milwaukee a bit before the show, and i filmed a lot of it and edited into a video, here.



the show itself went great! we played pretty well except for one of my guitar strings exploding during the first song, but it didn't matter because luke from mail graciously lent me his guitar and it imbued me with psychic rock and roll powers. people moshed! and then they moshed so hard during mail there were casualties! we sold some cds! pretty cool. it was also vampire themed, apparently? nobody told us though...

it was the best possible first show. i am beyond excited to keep playing shows with this band. thank you everyone who came and thank you to everyone yet to come. like ebenezer scrooge at 12am on christmas night.

god bless us everyone
milo

milwaukee sky rocket

our first show ever will be at discastle in milwaukee on november 23rd! we are coming up from chicago with our friends (and musical heroes) mail. to play with bad roommate, blind hill, and oh well ok. if you're a milwaukeean you should come as there is no significant commuting investment, and if you're a chicagoan you should brave the amtrack trip with us because it will be AWESOME! there's really no excuse not to come. 10 bucks, doors at 6pm, music at 7. to get the address you can either dm us on instagram, or if you're really cool and you read this website you can email us at makelikemarigold@gmail.com. we will also likely have lucky stars cds for sale!

see you there
milo

count your lucky stars like bugs in the screen door

hello!! today we have music out! for real! it's an EP/single/thing called lucky stars like bugs in the screen door. i hesitate to define it because paper moons is supposed to be on the album too... so it's just a bunch of cool songs. i wanted it to have it's own name like rainsnowmatch by braid instead of just naming it after paper moons. we recorded these in a lot of weird conditions over the past few months (like desi learning and recording all of sky wheel in less than an hour so we wouldn't have to spend another 30 bucks on renting a practice room), but i think it turned out rather good. it feels good. i hope you listen!

counting 'em
milo

silk strands on the window

it has come to my attention that not many people are aware of the existence of halloween goodie bag! which is a great shame i intend to repair.

halloween goodie bag is a project i started in october 2022 out of sheer panic that the album i had just released in september was unforgivably bad. i felt i had to prove, at least to myself, that i was capable of writing and recording a good song. so i gave myself a deadline of halloween and scrambled to write SOMETHING, ANYTHING. the result was weather spent, which is a song i'm still fairly proud of.



the next year i wanted to continue the tradition, so i established a real rule set designed to invoke the most horrible feeling in my chest on the night of october 30th: i must write a brand new song from scratch and record, mix and release it on halloween. nothing can carry over from september, it has to be brand new. and i have to up the ante in some fashion from last year's release. so i made a video:



for year three, who knows what i'll do! i don't even know yet, and it's the 9th! it's all in the spirit of the tradition to be stressed beyond belief all month until the very last moment. but i have a feeling it will involve my beautiful band and a magical little thing called not playing all the instruments yourself.

truly petrified
milo