Glen Phillips | Glen Phillips

Yawn and Stretch

Glen — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:52:07 +0000

I’ve been hibernating again. The winter takes it out of me, even here in sunny California. Once the days start getting longer, the happiness starts creeping back in (can happiness creep, or must it skip?). I’ve been mostly indoors for the last few months, recording a new Toad album. We will polish up the last mixes this Sunday, and then start working on getting it out into the world. I think we’ve done a pretty good job. There are moments of abject terror, but I attribute them to the seventeen year gap since our last record together and my higher than average worrying skills.

It’s a lovely, foggy morning. I’ll finish tweaking the website and then get back to music. I think I like the new look. Finally just caved in a bought a decent template instead of trying to roll my own. Should’ve done it years ago.

Anyway – have a good one, see you around, etc etc etc.

Glen — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:59:42 +0000

Upcoming Shows:

Sun, Jan 20 – Hideaway Cafe, St. Petersburg FL, 5pm

Wed, Jan 30 – Soho, Santa Barbara CA, 8pm

Sat, Feb 2 – Grace First Concert Series, Long Beach CA, 8pm

Sampler is free again.

Glen — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:58:08 +0000

The sampler that used to be free and then cost a couple bucks but nobody downloaded it any more because it wasn’t free is free again. Enjoy! For free!

Of course, I still highly recommend buying the music you listen to. We music folk work hard, and it costs money to make records. If you’re not hearing songs in movies, on tv or in ads (and you aren’t, in my case), then there’s nobody footing the bill but people like yourself. Just a friendly (and more than slightly passive-aggressive) reminder.

I write this in a van, heading from Tallahassee to Orlando. It’s a pretty much perfect day, at least where we are. It’s all about perspective. And weather. And the pleasant lack of alien invasion or giant monster attacks.

I’m extremely excited about the upcoming shows in Hawaii. Whee. Whoop. Zowie. See? Pure unbridled exuberance, leaping out of the screen and into your tired eyes. Stings, doesn’t it? All the same: Hawaii. Yes!

A little update

Glen — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:09:10 +0000

Somebody just emailed me, noticing that I’d been remiss in my update duties. I’m still not very good at juggling all these various portals for blurbage. What’s twittery, what’s facebookish, what’s bloggable? What ideas are small enough to fit into all three? I for one don’t know.
Anyway: The end of the year was lovely. Lots and lots of much needed time at home. Nearly three months, which I think is a record in the last 5 or so years. Home is good. Very good.
In that time, Toad got together and whipped out a quick re-record of our greatest hits. There’s a few reasons for this:

This way, we can own the recordings for licensing purposes.
A few of the songs were updated, with expanded arrangements or slightly faster tempos that better match how we play them live.
We can make a little record (called All You Want) and bring it to shows to share with the people.
We were able to remix the songs with just a little more of a modern flavor. Not totally hyped up, but with a little less reverb and (we hope) a little more punch.
It was really fun, and a good challenge.

So…what else? Solo shows coming up. Lots of writing to do. Then lots more writing to do. Then some more touring. More writing. More touring. Then maybe some recording. You know the drill.

Share and enjoy…

Random Remix

Glen — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:14:59 +0000

Go Vote!

Glen — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:54:44 +0000

It matters. Really it does.

.net is now .com. kinda.

Glen — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 05:41:30 +0000

Hi. Just switched servers and moved everything to a new site. Hope you enjoy. I’ll try and make a prettier header at some point…

More to come. Probably.

Good parenting moments

Glen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:10:23 +0000

Driving carpool back from Middle School today, my 13 year-old took my iphone and played: 15 Step by Radiohead, Intro and Crysalized by XX, and The Way We Get By by Spoon.
I will never be as cool as she is.

Theraputic Bunnies

Glen — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:02:56 +0000

Cute animal vids are my antidepressant of choice. They make everything better.

Hi.

Glen — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:16:30 +0000

I’ve been off tour for a little while now, getting to see my wife and kids and friends and generally have a quiet, semi-normal life. I like it. Cooking new foods (okonomiyaki was the latest adventure), hiking in the hills, running, breaking out the paddleboard when it’s warm enough. Doing laundry.

My creative efforts have been split between producing a few songs for my friend Cory Sipper, co-writing with some new artists, composing a few spec pieces for tv, and making the first stabs at songs for a new (already overdue) solo record.