Live Acoustic Session + Fan Chat Thursday
Dustin will be performing an acoustic set and taking fan questions live from NYC this Thursday at 1pm EST / 10am PST. Be sure to tune in! Click HERE to “follow” the page to RSVP.
TOUR UPDATE
Hey friends,
It blows our minds that we have sold through five hometown shows (including LA) on this Farewell tour. We are truly humbled by that fact, and we’re truly grateful for the outpouring of support you’ve shown us. Despite having five hometown shows, we’ve noticed that many people have mentioned that they were unable to get tickets to these shows. That said, we’ve decided to add one final SoCal show on this tour at the Observatory on June 19th. It will be us on our own, no support bands, and we’ll be breaking the set up into two pieces separated by a special acoustic intermission. As many of you know, cancer has affected each of our lives recently, and we felt it would be fitting to donate a portion of the proceeds from this show to StandUp2Cancer.
We hope you can make it out, and can’t thank you enough for making this all possible.
Love,
Thrice
Hey guys!
On Friday we announced a pre-sale for two additional hometown shows. Due to the overwhelming demand, a lot of people didn’t get the opportunity to purchase tickets in time so we wanted to try and accommodate as many people as we could.
We also announced that we’ll be recording portions of the tour for a live album that is scheduled to be released early in the Fall. More details to come. Tour is just a few days away now. We’re really looking forward to seeing all of you soon.
-Thrice
Thrice has been working very closely with Invisible Children for about six or seven years now.
It’s been an honor to work with them.
This is their new movie.
Please watch it. And after you watch it, act on it.
It’s not hard to get involved. Let’s do this, people.
Thank you for the thank you
Sometimes you receive a gift so beautiful and thoughtful that you hardly know what to do or say. This is one of those times.
Our close friends at Invisible Children just sent us a couple videos of members from two of their initiatives—kids from the Legacy Scholarship Program and women from the Mend program—who wrote and sang songs directly for us and our friends in Circa Survive and Edward Sharpe, thanking us for our work and support. We hardly deserve such an incredibly beautiful gift, and all we can say is - thank YOU. Your tenacity and unrelenting hope, courage, faith, and love continue to be a daily inspiration for all of us.
We’ve been working really closely for a number of years now with Invisible Children and we’ve never been able to see the fruits of our labor so tangible as this. It really sheds a new light and reinvigorates our fire to support this incredible organization and the causes for for which they stand.
Humbly,
Teppei/Thrice
Thank You: Thrice | Circa Survive | Edward Sharpe from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo
Thank You to Thrice, Circa Survive and Ed Sharpe from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
Farewell Tour Details, Tickets, & Song Poll
Hey folks,
By now you’ve probably heard that we announced the dates for our “Farewell Tour” this May/June with Animals As Leaders (and another very special guest). If you missed those dates, you can find them here. If you’d like to buy tickets, you can do that here. Ticket pre-sales began yesterday and tickets will be made available to the general public on Thursday March 1. We’d be honored and thankful if you’d join us for one (or more) of the shows on this last tour for the foreseeable future. Please don’t delay, because these tickets will go quickly.
It’s never been easy for us to decide what to play on tour. And now, with eight LPs and a handful of B-sides and covers under our collective belts, and given the circumstances of this tour, it’s as daunting a task as it’s ever been.
So we’re asking you to help us out.
Click the following link: http://vagrant.com/thrice/tourpoll/
Pick as many songs as you’d like, and we’ll use the info we gather from the poll to put together the best setlists we possibly can. Keep in mind that we’ll be recording several of these shows for a live album that we hope to put out later this year, so choose wisely.
We’re really looking forward to this tour and want to thank you all for your support, whether you’ve been onboard since ‘98 or just heard us for the first time yesterday. We couldn’t have done this without you guys.
See you in a couple of months.
-Riley & Thrice
‘At: Guitar Center’ Seven-Inch Store List
The new At: Guitar Center vinyl 7” with acoustic versions of “Promises” and “Anthology” is out now. We just received a list of confirmed retailers that are carrying a limited quantity in their stores. So if you missed the pre-order and really want a 7”, peruse this list, find a store near you, and go grab one before they’re all gone.
Also note that this is only a list of confirmed stores; please contact your local record store to see if they are carrying it.
Here’s that list…
Ameoba
2455 Telegraph Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94704
510.549.1125
1855 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
415.831.1200
6400 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323.245.6400
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Angelo’s
16711 E Iliff Ave
Aurora, CO 80013
303-337-1399
1500 W Littleton Blvd
Littleton, CO 80120
303-798-6378
An announcement from Dustin
Thrice is not breaking up. If nothing has broken us up by now, I doubt anything ever could.
However, we will be taking a break from being a full-time band, and the upcoming tour in the Spring will be the last one for the foreseeable future.
Playing music for the past 13 years with Riley, Ed, and Teppei has been such a gift. We have been able to see the world, share music with thousands and thousands of people, and make records with a variety of talented and inspiring people. The four of us have been through many highs and lows and overcome them together. I value their friendship, and it has been a great priviledge to play alongside them for so long. They are truly an amazingly gifted group of people, and the ways we’ve grown together as people and musicians has been a joy to experience.
Along the way we have adapted to many changing situations, especially the growing families of both Teppei and myself, but it has been harder and harder for me with each step. I have three little girls now under the age of 5, and it is a huge strain on my family and I when I’m away for several weeks at a time. The way we’ve been doing things for a while is simply not sustainable for me anymore.
I don’t know what the future looks like for Thrice, or for any of us individually. I do know that I would love to make more music in the future with them, as well as play some shows or short tours, but for the time being, I need to step out of the role of full time touring/recording musician, and will do so after this tour. I will continue to make music in various capacities I’m sure, and continue in my work as a Worship Director at Mars Hill Church in Orange County.
I know this will be very disappointing news to many people, and for that I am truly sorry. The amount of support and love we’ve been given in our career is staggering and overwhelming. I know I’m biased, but I think we have the best fans in the world.
This upcoming tour should be a lot of fun. We are planning for it to be somewhat of a celebration of the last 13 years and I’m sure we’ll be breaking out a bunch of songs that have been buried in the archives. I hope to see you out there to celebrate with us.
I never expected to be able to do any of this, let alone do it for 13 years, with such amazing bandmates, such gifted and hard working crew and management, and such incredible and loyal fans.
Thank you all.
Here are some pics from our Halloween show in Denver on 10/30 with La Dispute, O’ Brother and Moving Mountains.
Halloween shows are always a special time in the Thrice camp, and this one was as good or better than any of the prior years. A chaotic blend of latex masks, loud music, sweat and bad beer. Good times all around.
Photos courtesy of our wonderful friend and guitar tech Sangsouvanh.
Words In The Water (Polaris At Noon Remix)
Polaris At Noon did a great remix of our song “Words In The Water” from Major/Minor. You can now tweet for a free download of the track here.
Thrice - Words In The Water (Polaris At Noon Remix) by Vagrant Records
Baeblemusic Session
Check out our acoustic session at BaebleMusic right here. You can see the extended interview here and enter to win a signed copy of Major/Minor here.
Promises Video
We made a video for “Promises” from our new record Major/Minor. Check it out:
Savannah, 10/10. Day off family dinner - a Thrice tradition.
Savannah, 10/10
Savannah, 10/10
