Damn the
@glassbeachband
tour rizz is real. To all the new listeners I hope you stick around, there’s truly loads of new music coming. In the meantime check out my newest single I Want More
My meager spotify listenership is growing, thanks to
@glassbeachband
and the Glass Beach fandom. For my edification do you all identify as Glass Beachers? Or the Bedroom Community? Rat Castlers?
This is brutal cause this is both an obscene amount to have made thus far, but also around 2k from being able to properly finish the record I know there’s a million other ways you could spend your hard earned cash, but if you want to help me induce labor
Me and my gang of musical marauders hit the stage at Mahalls in Lakewood Ohio tonight. We’re on at 7 pm followed by the effervescent
@arcadia_grey
and then the almighty
@glassbeachband
I S2G I was driving home last night listening to Plastic Death and suddenly a high speed police chase broke out, hella cop cars dangerously sped past me, and when we got up to the barricade they’d set up, I SWEAR a fucking UFO was floating above it!
accidentally dropped a new track on Bandcamp (meant for it to upload Friday) but for those that have been excited about the songs we’ve been playing live this one I Want More will be on the album and has been a labor of ❤️ get it now, pay what you want
Crazy that there’s only 6 days left of tour. It’ll be weird going back to busking, a more normal level of gigging, and slinging cold pressed juices back in LA
Omg I got full permission to curse at all ages shows: it’s all over for you motherfuckers! What the fuck is up Nashville come see my fucking band open for my homies who are epically great glass-fucking-beach! Also we can’t forget about motherfucking
@arcadia_grey
…fuck.
New video drops on my YouTube channel Friday 9 am PST, for my song Sakura Matsuri. It was
Directed, filmed, and engineered by
@KWilliamWhite
of
@glassbeachband
Please keep giving and sharing the crowdfunding campaign for my debut album:
Seattle, my band is opening up for
@glassbeachband
tn w/
@arcadia_grey
. we play at 7! If you like Radiohead, Death Cab, socially awkward and somewhat depressed but goofy black dudes who sing emo sad but happy indie rock come check me out. Tix:
Thank you to everyone who’s been enjoying the *new* songs on this tour with
@glassbeachband
(as I’ve stated quite a few times these songs have been in the works for years) with your help I can get them out! Please support my crowdfunding campaign
Oh shit you peeps must want that heat, we’re well on our fucking way to 2k streams, and if we get there by Friday you’re getting 3 new tracks. If we get to 3k by then what should your prize be?
The amount of times as a black guitarist I’m asked if I play blues or reggae 🤮 and I’ve always strived not to internalize it or make it a thing of “No I play this superior genre of rock and roll” (to which they’d probably go “oh like Chuck Berry” anyways
Dropping this on Juneteenth. Fleece Kawasaki - I Want More (Live From Gramercy Theatre). This was shot and edited by the wonderful and talented
@JoeyTobinPhoto
- give them all their flowers
Who’s ready to see this sexy Thom Yorke posture in the flesh? Last show of tour tonight The Independent SF. Another sold out room. I can’t wait to rock out with my homies in
@arcadia_grey
and
@glassbeachband
- we’re on at 8
Goal: release my debut album to middling but positive reviews (let’s be real how often are they on the pulse?) + the music videos & songs hit tho. Have a big enough cult fanbase so that I don’t have to busk the rest of my life. Album 2 Release. Positive reviews. Die suddenly.
Damn if you only came out tonight at Ferris Wheeler’s for the food I couldn’t be too mad, but come see Fleece Kawasaki at 7, followed by
@arcadia_grey
and then
@glassbeachband
gleachers if you’re intending to gleach on the gb USA tour it’s important to the band, and to the rest of the bedroom community that we mask up for these shows. No joke if anyone in the entire touring party gets Covid TOUR WILL BE DONE. We really fucking wanna do this tour. 😷
glass beach is eclectic af, I’m hearing hyper pop, Kid A darkness, prog, math rock, but I think one of the musicical through-lines for the first glass beach album and plastic death is the feeling for me that “this sounds like an anime theme song that I wish I wrote”
Thanks to everyone who has given to the crowdfunding campaign we’re able to resume the studio recording of my album, starting with drums! Please keep sharing my posts and liking them and giving to the campaign if you feel so inclined.
That time during tour with two days before the next show
@arcadia_grey
and
@glassbeachband
sat down to learn my set beginning with this one Sea of Regret. Watch us take it from the Airbnb to the stage thanks to the magic 🎥 of
@JoeyTobinPhoto
What do you think of I Want More? It’s been great to feel like tour has both been connecting me with the people around me in an unforgettable way, but also that new people are finding and engaging with what I do.
One of my favorite bands ever just got back together and are putting out an album after like 24 years, The Softies are two gals, two guitars and beautiful gentle vocals and heartfelt lyrics that really taught me to be vulnerable about softer things as a songwriter without fear
I want to apologize for how obsessed I am with Pinkerton. But because of that release I decided to make my first album and my music in general deeply and awkwardly personal sometimes
More FK Lore: 6 yrs ago I lived in a crappy NYCHA apartment struggling with suicidal ideation, writing songs out of sunk cost fallacy, discovering busking as a means to get to LA, playing on the LA metro & getting to return home and play one of the biggest stages NYC has to offer
As someone from NYC who lives in LA I must say I really fucked with the food in the PNW. I had 1 of the top 5 burritos of my life in Portland & smoked some of the dankest weed there too. Played to some of the best crowds ever w
@arcadia_grey
and our friends
@glassbeachband
Years ago I had my guitar with me and because of that they didn’t let me into Emo Nite at The Echoplex. Six years this shall be rectified when my band plays a sold out show there 4/19 opening up for
@glassbeachband
w/
@arcadia_grey
If you keep streaming I Want More, it’s kinda like saying to me “we want more Fleece Kawasaki music” a request I’m happy to oblige. Streaming I Want More may also cure my depression. Find out with me?
god tier: Pinkerton + Blue
legendary: White
really fucking good: EWBAITE, OK Human, Maladroit
mid-good: Green, Make Believe, Red Album (Deluxe)
Mid-Mid: Hurley, Van Weezer
Bad: Black album, Pacific Day Dream
What The Fuck Rivers: Teal, Raditude, SZNZ (all 4)
2020 was the last time I put out music, so in 2024 you’re getting brand spanking new versions of the Desert Flower EP, which will both give insight into what I was originally going for + what my full length debut album Fake Frowns will sound like.
Sakura Matsuri Live From Point Fermin is now up on my YouTube channel. This is a live acoustic rendition of my song recorded at the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro by the lovely and incomparable
@kwilliamwhite
of
@glassbeachband
The show is tomorrow, come thru & give me all your poison, give me all your pills, give me all your hopeless hearts
And make me ill! Just a little? As a treat?
Man, despite playing the most intimate show of tour it was so fun, thanks to the crowd who turned up last minute at
@RobotoProject
who made it feel big. Pittsburg yinz know how to party!
Hey kids do you like tales of hubris dragging us back down to earth? How about beautifully shot visuals by
@KWilliamWhite
of
@glassbeachband
well if so I got that good good for you. This an original called Like Icarus
After 4 years of saying it was gonna be a thing Fleece Kawasaki is finally a band. Follow your dreams kids, the One Piece does exist. P.S. thank you for these 🔥 ass pics
If you live in LA and wanna hear me do a solo set tonight at Harvard & Stone Tix are only $10. There’s Burlesque, and plus NOT THE KILLERS. You heard it here first kids, I am not opening up for The Killers.
My journey as Fleece Kawasaki legitimately began when I took a greyhound to Chicago from NYC, and stayed here for a week before moving to LA. It feels so good to be back and completely nuts that after all this time I get to play a huge stay like Thalia Hall with my homies
My car made it all the way to NYC and then the drive back to Tucson and then the check engine light came on. Lmao another 1k gone resolving this, and I haven’t had my car since Saturday. Stream my shit or buy it on bandcamp. Or hey Venmo me directly.
k, for an indie act of my size this is a big milestone, thanks for listening and sharing ILYSM, loads of new music on the way and the next tour date with
@arcadia_grey
opening for
@glassbeachband
is Tuesday 3/26 at Bluebird Theatre tix: we’re on at 7