âUnfold Youâ came out in October and this year I released four more tracks from my second record before the album dropped, so only six tracks debuted with the release. I wanted to give everyone more music so Iâm excited to announce there are two new tracks at the end of Changephobia as of today: rostam.ffm.to/changephobia
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One is a cover of âTrain in Vainâ by âŞ@theclashâŹ, and the other is a cover of âFruits of my Laborâ by âŞ@LucindaWilliamsOfficialâŹ. There arenât many covers of the Clash song even though itâs one of my favorite records. But a wild thing happened with the Lucinda Williams song; my friend Sam Buck covered it for the Bloom Country compilation (available on Bandcamp) and then a few weeks later âŞ@Waxahatchee⏠covered the same song. I love both of their versions and I encourage you to seek them out. Doing some research I also found a very sweet cover Blake Mills did for French radio (available on Youtube).
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All these rad covers made me feel like there was something cool about putting yet another rendition of the song into the world. While working on my version, I had a feeling that all of us who covered Lucindaâs song might inspire even more covers to exist in the future. I hope thatâs the case. And if you havenât heard it, please check out the original from the album World Without Tearsâ itâs a stone cold classic.
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Special shoutout to Dave Fridmann (Tarbox Road Studios) who mixed Train in Vain. Extra special shoutout to Henry Solomon đˇ who played sax on both of these covers and 7 of 11 songs on the album.
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From The Back of a Cab (Live) on the âŞ@TheLateLateShow⏠last night: https://youtu.be/2PIwmxFI468
thanks to Corner Malloy, Logan Kane, Julian McClanahan Calvert for performing with me.
thanks to Jason Lester, Our Secret Handshake, Laura Burhenn, Gregory Reese, Joey Messina-Doerning.
and thanks to James Corden and his show for having us.
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did an âŞ@nprmusic⏠Tiny Desk ! â it just went up on youtube
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thanks to my bandmates:
⢠Julian McClanahan Calvert
⢠Henry Solomon
⢠Logan Kane
⢠Conor Malloy
⢠Benji Lysaght
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⢠thanks to Jason Lester, Our Secret Handshake for film direction and production
⢠thanks to Gregory Reese for color
⢠thanks to Joey Messina-Doerning for engineering and mixing
watch video on watch page
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Iâm probably more comfortable doing favors for people in my life than asking them to do favors for me. But in making this video, I asked a bunch of friends if they would want to be in it. They pretty much all said yesâ Iâm proud of the result: https://youtu.be/DW-_NldiM9I
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directed by Jason Lester and myself.
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thank you to
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HAIM
Wallows
Kaia Gerber
Bryce Smith
Nick Robinson
Samantha Urbani
Ghazal Hashemi
Demi Adejuyigbe
Carter Howe
Charli XCX
Huck Kwong
Ariel Rechtshaid
Matt DiMona
Seth Bogart
Chris Paloma
Remi Wolf
Julian McClanahan
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'From the Back of a Cab' â May 4th at Noon Pacific. alsoâ gonna go live half an hour early to chat â the live chat then becomes the Youtube premiere đ¤Ż: https://youtu.be/_zUr4kWHnaU watch video on watch page
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Happy #EarthDay. Performed "These Kids We Knew" for âŞ@NatGeoâŹ's Earth Day Eve last night. Can check it out here (around 53 minutes in). watch video on watch page
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my new song â˘changephobia⢠is out today.
rostam.ffm.to/changephobia-track
itâs also the name of my album thatâs coming June 4th.
rostam.ffm.to/changephobia
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'Half-Light (The Instrumentals)' out now.
music from ROSTAM