This post is rated TV-MA for presidential slander, mild language, possible hope and potential nudity. Hi my Loves. It has been a while. How are you? How is our good ol' brutal red white and blue America treating you? Shitty? Sure. Every day it seems we awaken to news that some new hole has been slashed in the foundations of everything we've held true concerning science, human rights and general empathy. These things now come in direct conflict with our new president’s disgusting vision of America. I left my own social media profiles behind in September and it has been one of the best decisions I've made in a long time. But ignoring the world and not looking directly into the gaping ass that is our current political climate is a mistake…..pardon my fucking language.



I initially sat down to write something like this: Every year on the 9th of February we celebrate Shakey Graves Day here in Austin by throwing a show/party and I use the opportunity to release a new album of B-sides or live recordings that are only available online for 72 hours. All of my albums (including the 8 previous Shakey Graves Day releases) go on a “pay what you want” model for 3 days and then disappear back into repose for another 365. But as I typed it out I realized that throwing a party and putting some tunes on the internet didn’t seem to match up with my desperate yearning I feel to help in some way. So, I decided that from now on I'm going to donate half the proceeds of the SG Day album sales to one or more good causes. These can be charities, think tanks, frozen natives, music programs, homeless shelters, basically anything nice you can think of. I only know about so many good causes and I don't feel like generically shipping off cash to just anything SO THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN: I need to hear your voice. Where should this money go? Do you know of an amazing cause that I should hear about? Please comment on my Shakey Graves VI FB post (tag the cause/non-profit) OR email your cause and their website to: potentialnudity@shakeygraves.com and we over here at Shakey Graves labs will aggregate and sift and find some things that resonate and amaze. From Feb. 9-11, ten albums will be out on www.shakeygraves.bandcamp.com for the price of “pay what you want,” so if you donate even one dollar for the whole catalog, fifty cents will go to a good cause. After the 72 hours have passed and we have processed all suggestions, we will post an announcement about what good causes we've learned about and show you exactly where the money will go. On top of all of this, our all-ages shindig will be at the Mohawk on Feb. 9th and will feature local funk storm Los Coast, and my dear friends and fellow road warriors David Ramirez and Rayland Baxter. Ray Ray, David and I are going to try a new thing and do a set of songs in the round, fart jokes storytelling and kumbaya. Could be a train wreck. Could be a heavenly experience. Either way, it's gonna be a heap of fun. After that Shakey Graves & the Snacktown All-Stars (Patrick O’Connor, Chris Boosahda, and Jon Shaw) are going to bat cleanup. It should be a ball, there will be free, live screen printing while shirts last, a photo booth, and most importantly, lots of love. Tickets to the Feb 9th Shakey Graves Day VI will be done partially through a 'lottery' via www.shakeygraves.com/tour and here starting today at 12Noon CST! Please read the entire ticketing page from the link . Ticket requests can be made from Mon., Jan. 30 at 12Noon CST - Fri., Feb. 3 at 11:59P CST. You will be notified if you've received tix after 12Noon CST on Mon., Feb. 6. For those who did not get tix, we will keep a few tickets available for sale at the Mohawk box office on day-of-show. So, in summary, send in your ideas, and remember from Feb. 9th-11th your donations matter and the music is just a cherry on top. It's easy to feel helpless and without a community in a politically-charged time like this is, but that couldn't be further from the truth. Thank you, and in the wise words of Abraham Lincoln, “Be excellent to each other…and… party on, dudes.” Love, Alejandro Rose-Garcia “Shakey Graves”