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Great venue in a great neighbourhood in a great city. This was the biggest headline show I’ve ever had in NYC. I hit the merch table afterward and heard stories of folks flying in from North Carolina, Michigan, Arizona - just wild. Means a lot to me that folks would go to all…
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Want to “Ask Me Anything”? Add your question in the AMA section HERE. Dear Sera, Thanks for writing. Not to minimize that we live in a complicated era with some existential comeuppances on the horizon… but I do think that these chilling moments of quiet terror have maybe been a…
Available NOW! Listen or view merch bundles HERE 571 emails. 100+ hours on the phone and thousands of text messages. A mere 3 days spent in-person together over two and a half years of long-distance work. Such a displaced recording process might make anyone question the concept…
Hello love, I’ve known Felix Cartal for a few years. He’s a multi-platinum selling artist, but he’s also a genius remixer. There’s always a sense of whimsy in his work, and he doesn’t take himself too seriously, which I appreciate. Like, for instance, his piano house anthem remix…

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WATCH: 03.28.20 | ZOOM | #Quarantunes Vol. 2
GUITAR TUTORIAL - "Cold In The Summer"
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This was the first show of the “An Evening with Dan Mangan” series. Small rooms. Me and a guitar. No setlist - just taking requests and telling stories…
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Want to “Ask Me Anything”? Add your question in the AMA section HERE. Dear Niki, Thanks for being there. I love Glasgow. I love so many places in…
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Hello love, USA loves “initialism”. NYC. DC. LA. I learned that these are not acronyms. Acronyms are initials that can be said as a new word (like…
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Some time last year, I discovered Leith Ross on TikTok, thanks to a recommendation from Said The Whale’s Tyler Bancroft. At the time, I thought TikTok…
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Want to “Ask Me Anything”? Add your question in the AMA section HERE. Dear Tessa, I’m particularly proud of that line. Years ago, I was in a cab on my…
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Sorry to hit ya twice with this. I’m such an eBay rookie - I thought there’d be a landing page before the auction went live but there was not. Link…
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Guitar auction for Abortion Funds!Watch now (2 min) | I’m auctioning my Taylor 310-KCE acoustic guitar (made in California, 2000). This was my first "real" guitar. Every song from…
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