TOUR AGAIN
Starting so soon! D. Norsen made us a mod of his beautiful poster for our last tour.
Audiotree // buy a shirt
hey! we had the honor of stopping by the Audiotree Live studio in Chicago in June to film this session, and today we have the honor of sharing it with you!
I also put the rest of our tour shirts up online at bandcamp and you can buy them here. If you’re a small, move quick, we’re almost out. Sick design by D. Norsen & me.
New music today on The Fader
very stoked to share a couple of new songs today via The FADER. I think of it as an expansion of the Zion universe. please listen and come see us if you're in our tour zone
June 14 - Cincinnati, OH - Woodward Theater
June 15 - Indianapolis, IN - Pioneer
June 16 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Knickerbocker
June 17 - Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle
June 18 - Chicago, IL - Audiotree Live (this is going to stream online in the afternoon, anyone can watch it)
June 18 - Milwaukee, WI - Company Brewing
June 19 - Louisville, KY - Kaiju
June 20 - Cleveland, OH - Happy Dog
June 21 - Rochester, NY - The Daily Refresher
June 22 - Queens, NY - Trans-Pecos (Aquarium Drunkard Presents, all proceeds to ACLU)
Mailing list party
It's friday, and you know what that means - I'm trying to expand my mailing list so I can be less reliant on sites like fb that force me to pay to reach my own audience. TGIF! if you want to get on there you can enter your info at the “mailing list” link in the navigation bar or email me at wildermaker at gmail dot com
I'd be grateful!
June Tour
WM is coming to a town near you this summer (hopefully near you...)
Dates in the beautiful D Norsen Design poster below
WM on Counting Crows Podcast + Underwater Sunshine Festival
Pretty wild to be featured on the Counting Crows Podcast and have a couple of our songs discussed in very flattering detail. Listen and then come see us free on April 5 at Underwater Sunshine Festival
I spoke to Frontrunner Magazine about Zion
Read the full interview here.
Tour was good // more people like us
here are some beautiful images of the band from my 35mm camera!
Here are more nice things ppl have said about the record:
"the sprawling epics on the group’s latest, Zion, resist easy classifications." - Steven Hyden, UPROXX, Best Songs From July
"It’s hard to pin down Brooklyn-based Wilder Maker. The band’s bio lists Dr. John, Fleetwood Mac, John Coltrane and Ethiopian music as influences — and each comes through, in different ways, on the just-released “Zion.” - The Washington Post
"On each and every song here Wilder Maker manage to position themselves in a mystical middle ground between the old and new, the definable and undefinable, the seen and the unseen...A final, fundamental, remarkable contradiction in a work of art lined with dazzling incongruence." -Boston Hassle
"the four-piece is careful to center vocals and guitar in all of these compositions. One of their greatest strengths is that any of the songs on their latest masterpiece, Zion, would sound phenomenal stripped down to just those elements." - ThrdCoast
"Gloomy folk rock bead. Pretty big!" Google translated playlist from This Austrian Newspaper
Read Zachary Lipez on Zion at Noisey
Belatedly very proud to have Zion out in the world. huge thanks to the Northern Spy team, the band, Eli Crews and Sam Owens at Figure 8, Heba Khadry at Timeless Mastering, and to everyone who’s taken the time to really dive deep into the album.
Zach Lipez wrote one of my favorite pieces anyone’s ever written about the band over at Noisey
Other deeply attentive reviews came from Kris Handel at Post-Trash and Carrie Grayson at Soundblab, Peter Margasak at the Chicago Reader
interviews with:
and some nice track posts over at
"Drunk Driver" music video
Hi, very proud of this video we made for the 2nd single on Zion. The band and our partners are the stars, and the impeccable film work and editing was done by Chris Weiss from Northern Spy. Please, please stream and enjoy. Share it with a friend like a cold bottle of sancerre in the park.
Introducing “Zion”
Very excited to announce that we’ve signed with Northern Spy records for our new full length, titled Zion.
Stream the first single at GoldFlakePaint here: https://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/new-music-wilder-maker-closer-to-god/
and preorder the LP here: https://wildermaker.bandcamp.com/album/zion
It’s been a long haul getting this music to you on the best platform possible. I hope it comes to mean as much to some of you as it has to me.
love,
Gabe // WM
SXSW Tour
Hello beautiful people, we are coming your way. As part of a string of fun things happening over the next month we will be back out there in our trusty van Whitey Ford playing the music for you, playing a couple of festivals as well as some good ol rock shows. Dates are below.
I was just in LA with Debo Band (my other band) and I stayed for a few extra days at the end of the trip in order to avoid the pit of human misery that is NYC in February. I drove the Pacific Coast highway in 70 degree weather blasting Julia Holter's Have You in My Wilderness with the windows down and the sun pouring in and the person I love in the passengers seat and the blue water glowing in an unreal kind of way. It was an incredibly beautiful experience, and it reminded me what music can do. I'd always liked that record but had never really heard it in the way I did then. It sounded exactly like what I was seeing, the LA Light and the coastal landscape.
It was just the kind of euphoric moment I started chasing when I started making music in the first place. Hope to bring some of those to me and you both in March.
-g
#airbnb show//2018 is fun
Hi. We have a show tomorrow at Caveat on Clinton St in the LES. It is presented via AIRBNB and you can buy tickets here and only here.
Jost, external and internal view
We also have a TON of news that we will be sharing with you soon, including details on a new LP, a new label, and some festivals and touring. Can't quiiiiite get into it yet but I can't wait to.
in the meantime, have you bought our New Streets 7" yet? Why not do it now? Either that or get on Spotify and stream that shit 1500 times (equivalent to one album sale according to the RIAA)
ROUGH TRADE NYC TOMORROW NIGHT
We are playing an absolute banger of a show tomorrow night, possibly our last of 2017 before we roll out some big news + excitement for 2018.
Amazing poster by David Foarde
"Only Child" video up on SPIN today
So excited to share our fun and goofy video for "Only Child" on SPIN Magazine today, directed by Matt Strickland - click the image above to read Winston Cook Wilson's write up, or watch the video embed below!
poster by the amazing David Foarde
SPIN ranks "New Streets" #35 best song of 2017 so far
we are very excited about this! v cool to finally beat the hell out of Harry Styles at SOMETHING.
New Streets live at THRDCOAST's Blue Room
We stopped by the Blue Room in Bushwick to play our new single for you.
hear New Streets on Stereogum
http://www.stereogum.com/1937208/wilder-maker-new-streets/premiere/
V excited to have the A side of our new Saddle Creek 7" premiering on Stereogum today! Click the link above to preview your new summer mushroom trip prospect park jam
Road Dogs
we'll be hitting the road w our friends Sam Evian and Uni Ika Ai in May, including a v special show at Rough Trade the day after our new single is out.
(Note: we're not on the D.C. show, just philly and Brooklyn)
