top 40 b/w top 40

🎉 Happy New Year, friends.

🥁 The Western leg of our US tour kicks off in just a few days. Texas, Southwest, California, PNW and more—details below, tickets available here.

🚐 I’ll be heading out in April for a whole month of solo shows. Tickets are on sale now.

🥂 Thanks for reading Pause For Effect this year! Paid subscribers can check out a cover of “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” an essay on the job of loving music (to make up for last month’s missed post), and a Top 40 to close out 2023.

See you on the road,

xo

Jake

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UPCOMING SHOWS

Full Band:

1/04 - House of Blues - Houston, TX#
1/05 - Paper Tiger - San Antonio, TX#
1/06 - Emo's - Austin, TX#
1/07 - Tulips - Dallas, TX#
1/09 - Meow Wolf - Santa Fe, NM#
1/10 - 191 Toole - Tucson, AZ#
1/11 - The Van Buren - Phoenix, AZ#
1/12 - Observatory North Park - San Diego, CA#
1/13 - Theatre at The Ace Hotel - Los Angeles, CA#
1/14 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA#
1/16 - The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA#
1/17 - Crest Theatre - Sacramento, CA#
1/19 - Revolution Hall - Portland, OR#
1/20 - The Showbox - Seattle, WA#
1/21 - Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC#

Solo:

4/01 - The State Theatre - State College, PA
4/02 - Rams Head On Stage - Annapolis, MD
4/03 - The Southern Café and Music Hall - Charlottesville, VA
4/04 - Neighborhood Theatre - Charlotte, NC
4/05 - The Grey Eagle - Asheville, NC
4/06 - 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA
4/07 - Music Farm - Charleston, SC
4/09 - The Upstairs at Avondale Brewing Company - Birmingham, AL
4/10 - For the Record Music Hall - Florence, AL
4/11 - George’s Majestic Lounge - Fayetteville, AR
4/12 - Rose Music Hall - Columbia, MO
4/13 - TempleLive - Wichita, KS
4/14 - Slowdown - Omaha, NE
4/16 - Armory FoCo - Fort Collins, CO
4/17 - Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO
4/19 - The James Theater - Iowa City, IA
4/20 - Vivarium - Milwaukee, WI
4/21 - SPACE - Evanston, IL
4/22 - Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center - Urbana, IL
4/23 - The Pyramid Scheme - Grand Rapids, MI
4/24 - The Blind Pig - Ann Arbor, MI
4/25 - Bridgeworks - Hamilton, ON
4/26 - Le Ministère - Montreal, QC
4/27 - 3S Artspace - Portsmouth, NH
4/28 - Levon Helm Studios - Woodstock, NY

# = w/ Sun June

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MERCH

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