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AGM-004* - Camp Club by Urge Surfer

Hands down one of my favorite weekends this summer. It’s not something we all don’t know, but away from the apps and hamster wheels of life there’s solace in creation. The state of creating makes me feel at home in a way that very few things do. Here’s a snapshot of some of that dynamic at play.

* I was saying that this release was catalogue number AGM-003, but then I realized that it already existed… just isn’t out yet. More info soon. by @rectangular_eye

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15 days ago

I want to tell you a story. @what_valerie_makes has long loved @sarabareilles. Unrelated, Val's mom passed away in May. Sara's new record is all about moving through various forms of grief. The timeline seems mildly spooky. When Sara's tour was announced, we paid $800 for middle of the road tickets to see her at @masseyhall (a mind-meltingly insane price for this hardcore kid). On Friday, Val broke her ankle while helping me load in for a gig in Syracuse. The following day I inquired about accessibility at Massey, knowing that Val would need wheelchair accommodations. They offered to downgrade our seats, but they would now be wheelchair accessible, though there will be a visual obstruction - great, a compromise. We arrive. The ushers inform us that this new spot will not work. We wait for a solution. We are downgraded again to a floor up. We are ushered outside to a backdoor and into another elevator. Now Val has a wheelchair parking spot, with the twin caveat that there is a more prominent visual obstruction and I don't have a seat. The ushers ask the people seated next to Val if they will move so I can sit - their new seats will be better if they move anyway. They move. I sit. I am very uncomfortable with these circumstances. The show begins and neither of us are emotionally present. The show ends, we leave in silence, seething. We blame ourselves for how things played out - Val's injury, my inquisitiveness. Obviously, this is our fault. by @rectangular_eye

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16 days ago

This is my favorite picture of our warm weather months. @gillenleeriggs shot it and I love him and @shop.toast so much 💕 by @rectangular_eye

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a month ago

'Camp Club' is now available on all major music platforms. Think of it like a mini Urge Surfer Summer Camp '26 scrapbook, but for dancing. 💼🚗🌳💅🏼💨🌲🦌 🎛️ 🎶 taken in Buffalo, New York by @rectangular_eye

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a month ago

Personal Style / Chimes of Bayonets 2026 Canadian Tour has come to a close. I needed that more than I knew. I think I could happily move to Montréal. Love the @chimesofbayonets crew to death. Shout-out to @stephenpercent for driving the entire time while I laid in the back reading and napping. Had drinks with @millimetricinstruments and his lovely partner. Met @basementlyle and his daughter in person for the first time after years of chatting about gear online. Saw @hidden_mountain_horizon for the first time in years. It's impossible to convey what it's like to go on the road, embracing the chaos of the unknown that comes with each day, playing music for strangers to those that have never done it, but it's certainly among my very favorite things. No idea what the future holds for Personal Style, but I can't imagine not making music with these fine folks in the future. by @rectangular_eye

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a month ago

Last weekend we had what we had dubbed Urge Summer Camp, a three day writing retreat in the woods of Western New York. We wrote and recorded two new songs and rather than sit on them, we decided to release them asap. They'll be waiting for you on August 31st on all major platforms. Welcome to Camp Club. by @rectangular_eye

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2 months ago

This book steamrolled me. I have never encountered a work of fiction that conveys with such accuracy and dark humor the time period in which a person admits to themselves that they are in fact trans and actually have to take some kind of action to address it, and how this metamorphosis plays out as their secret begins to spill out into the world. It also confronts so many of the same fears many of us struggle with - what will happen to my marriage, my job, my friendships if I unveil this monumentally embarrassing thing about myself? And it does so while exploring the beauty of female friendships and found family with so much sweetness and wit. Loved it. Laughed so much. Cried a bunch.

While nearing the end, I went back and looked at some photos from those early days which aren't even that long ago in the grand scheme of things. 4.5 years ago I realized I had to grapple with my own transness. Looking at myself in the mirror at that time, I struggled to see how I might exist on the other side of this admission (pic #2). I found folks online whose own journey saw them physically and spiritually transform within a few years and reached out to talk (you know who you are - so grateful to you!). I used AI and a photo of myself to guestimate what I might look like as a woman (#3 - surprisingly helpful and relatively accurate). But ultimately, I just had to trust that my body would make good use of the medication that promised to alleviate this life long sense of bodily disconnection.

Last week, something I did not anticipate happened. I was invited by a dear friend to attend an event at which I could get a bit dressed up. We traveled, so I didn't wear makeup other than mascara and I just let my hair air dry after a shower. I very much looked like me, and went about the evening drinking free cocktails and chatting with folks I didn't know. The next day this photo (#4) appeared on the Getty website, along with many others from the event. 4.5 years ago, I never could have imagined that this person in this photo would in fact be me. I don't know how you feel about it, but I feel pretty fucking proud.

@emilystjams - thanks for writing this beautiful book. by @rectangular_eye

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2 months ago

Whirlwind trip to NYC to play wing-woman to @stressdolls and hang at grammies HQ™ for @rampd_up. Made a pit stop in Poughkeepsie to hang with Brad and Linz, and got to see @theythemfemme for the first time in 15 years! Meanwhile back at home, someone tried to steal @what_valerie_makes and I's lease, again. by @rectangular_eye

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2 months ago

This has been a relatively quiet summer music-wise, but there are a few shows coming up and a weekend of writing planned:

@stressdolls
7/24 at Riverworks (duo)
7/25 at California Brew Haus in Rochester

(@urge.surfer summer camp)

@your.personalstyle Canadian Tour (on guitar!)
8/20 in Toronto
8/21 in Montréal
8/22 in Ottawa
8/23 in St. Catherines

📸 @zachmandrsn by @rectangular_eye

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2 months ago

A couple weeks ago I got to play wedding photographer for the @buffalolibrary's Love Is Love Wedding Day. Congrats to the beautiful couples: @jmsasiadek & @christophersasiadek, @s_j_blake & Michael, and @moonbladebloom & @pictoboxphoto!

I love love so much 💓 by @rectangular_eye

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3 months ago

Staycation roundup. My heart is full, and yet a week is not nearly enough time to both decompress and also accomplish anything meaningful beyond decompression. by @rectangular_eye

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3 months ago