Fred Wesley poster (trombone player for the James Brown Band)

super minimal... and I am going crazy. More work will be posted soon.

My hibernation, tour.. & a gigposter for The Baltic Sea...

Wow, I haven't updated this blog for a number of months...until now. I remember my friend Demian Johnston giving me shit about not updating The Empennage regularly...about two months ago when we played a show with him in Seattle at the Comet. Demian and Shane used to play in the now defunct and lovable Playing Enemy and now they have a two piece project called Hemingway (which to no surprise really was absolutely amazing!). This was the first show of the west coast Conifer tour but actually wasn't even a Conifer show but a Conifer-Lesbian improv-supergroup-sound-worship collective known as Machu Picchu Mother Future. I must really talk about this show as I rank it as one of the best performances I have ever participated in. Truly amazing, members flying in from around the country, making it to the club literally minutes before playing on stage. There were 9 of us total including two drummers, four guitarists and three bass players....and a fog machine. A packed house at The Comet where at one point, when I felt like a goddamn spaceship was lifting off inside the club, everything went slow motion and the stage and audience were one swirling ameoba of hair and smoke and fists shaking in the air, the sound clowns climbing and circling to greater heights weeping and wailing.. Ahhh, what a PERFECT way to kickstart the energy of our tour. You can see more pics of the whole west coast jaunt at the Conifer myspace site if you're interested. ...oh, here is a gigposter I did for the Baltic Sea at the Space Gallery coming up soon....

conifer west coast tour poster

Arm Factory Collective print shop moves to East Bayside Portland

After midnight moving crusades, freight elevator journeys and with help of dear friends and participants, the Arm Factory has now left the mill building in Westbrook and finds its new home in the east Bayside neighborhood of Portland. A much bigger space with multiple rooms, this move is exactly what we all needed for the shop! First friday art walks, live shows including music and printing and other workshops shall be a constant.. Stop by and check it out sometime...200 Anderson Street.

NEW POSTER: Conifer record release party with Akimbo

Poster for the Space Gallery show in Portland, Maine with the thunderous AKIMBO of Seattle. Shark on.

Conifer shirt design for IMPORTANT RECORDS

Shirts and albums on sale at ImportantRecords.com. New record out and gearing up for the west coast tour. Vinyl should be available very soon if not already thru Important. We will be sporting some very special edition Conifer shirts for this...very psychedelic and lots of colors. Will post soon once they are made. This has been the craziest few months that I have had in years, and I am not sure when it will finally let up.

Another shirt for Stasis...