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New We Were Pirates Song, It Was Alright!

It Was Alright is the first track on the new EP, Gone. You can pre-order Gone on Bandcamp and immediately download It Was Alright. Meanwhile, the rest of the EP will be available to download and stream everywhere (Apple Music/Spotify/etc….) two weeks from today on Friday, February 1.

'The Three of Us' from the 'Break-Up' Episode of This American Life

This American Life re-ran the ‘Break Up’ episode this week. Here’s a cover of ‘The Three of Us’ I recorded for a song contest they did when the episode first aired years ago.

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2017 Year End Spotify Mix

It’s that time of year again. I made another year end spotify mix with some of my favorite songs from 2017. As always, let me know what I missed. Enjoy!

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I Sang Backup for The Mynabird's Tiny Desk Concert!

The Mynabirds Tiny Desk concert is up now. It was a pretty incredible experience getting to sing back up for my extremely talented cousin, Laura Burhenn, and meet a bunch of new friends. Thanks to Bob Boilen, Robin Hilton, & everyone at NPR Music for having us!

Video of "I Don't Know" Performance at The Kennedy Center

Here’s video of our performance of “I Don’t Know” at The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage last month. Presented by Hometown Sounds.

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2016 Mix.

I’m keeping the tradition alive! I made a mix with some of my favorite songs from this year. I got a little carried away and it’s three and a half hours long. But in my defense, even though the world completely fell apart, a lot of really good music came out in 2016.

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We Were Pirates Songs From 'Matter' in New Chef Documentary, Hungry

A new documentary called Hungry was just released, and it features several songs from the newest We Were Pirates album, 'Matter.'

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We Played REI DC's Grand Opening...

We had a blast playing a Rock-n-Romp show over the weekend for the Grand Opening of REI in DC with the homies Olivia Mancinia & the Mates and The NRIs. And Biz Markie played a little later. Yeah, that's right. We opened for Biz Markie.....kind of.

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We Were Pirates Interviewed on Morning Edition!

Hi friends,

As I mentioned in last week's post, Kate and I got to go to NPR headquarters in DC do an interview for Morning Edition. They posted it online and you can stream it here.

Local NPR Station WAMU Played ‘The Cheapening’

Thanks so much to our local DC area NPR affiliate, WAMU for playing 'The Cheapening' on Wednesday. I was actually listening at the time and got to catch it live. So cool. They're featuring all local interstitial music for the summer. It's been great hearing Oddisee, Deleted Scenes, The Sea Life.... Lots of really good stuff.

New WWP Album, Matter, Out Now!

Today is the big day! The new album, Matter, is out. You can get it now at: iTunes // Bandcamp // Spotify // CD Baby (physical cd) // Amazon mp3

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