Here's an unedited video of Jeff and Dan developing a guitar part in the studio for our song "Creature".
This is a great example of what the studio experience is like!
I thought it was interes...
2018-04-30 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
An important message about Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas from Jeff Aderman and Dan McGowan, specifically focusing in on the Riverbottom Nightmare Band and their broader cultural significance.
2018-04-27 20:52:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back at Big Blue North recording guitars this week. Here's a video that I took with my phone of me playing a section of our new song "Creature" yesterday. Sadly, due to the dimly lit cave-like env...
2018-04-26 17:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Only two days before we were scheduled to perform at ProgStock 2017 (a new Progressive Rock Music Festival held in Rahway, New Jersey), The Tea Club was met with an unexpected tragedy. There was a dea...
2018-03-26 22:59:50 +0000 UTC View Post
From the journal of Dan McGowan, Thursday, October 9th, 2003:
"Today was the first day that all four of us practiced... We played Mr. Shlappy with Kyle on drums and Pat was flipping out. He was,...
2018-03-02 23:00:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons,
Just wanted to inform you all of a rare pre-General Winter's Tea Club release that surfaced on eBay today. After seeing it, I felt I should give this group at least a head start on it...
2018-02-06 02:07:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Two weeks ago, Pat and Dan joined Pastor Ben White at Circle of Hope, a church in Pennsauken NJ, to talk about prog rock, The Tea Club's upcoming album, and the spirituality of creating. They ...
2018-02-03 23:48:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Joe recording his piano part for a new song called "Sinking Ship" on a Steinway upright piano!
2018-01-16 20:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie does some sick beat boxing and dancing on his last day recording bass!
2018-01-15 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie records bass for parts of the new album's epic, "Creature", while Jeff Aderman gives the band a valuable life lesson.
2018-01-15 01:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
What keeps The Tea Club going? Why, it's the delicious sugar free zero calorie soft drink La Croix, that's what. Dan McGowan talks about the importance of La Croix, and briefly contemplates "what happ...
2018-01-12 22:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Jamie Wolff recording bass for "Rivermen" and "If I Mean When".
2018-01-12 22:02:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Whilst Jamie begins work on recording bass with Pat and Jeff, Dan McGowan is drawing the second issue of The Tea Club's "Grappling" comic book.
2018-01-11 22:05:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan Monda used 3 different drum kits to record this new album so that we could get different sounds for different songs (or even different parts of songs). He made these diagrams of each of the drum k...
2018-01-11 19:06:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan Monda used 3 different drum kits to record this new album so that we could get different sounds for different songs (or even different parts of songs). He made these diagrams of each of the drum k...
2018-01-11 19:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan Monda used 3 different drum kits to record this new album so that we could get different sounds for different songs (or even different parts of songs). He made these diagrams of each of the drum k...
2018-01-11 19:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan and Joe do a piano and vocal only run through of "The Knocking", a small section of the new album's nearly 30 minute long epic, "Creature".
2018-01-10 03:44:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Dan Monda has triumphantly finished drums and performs a celebratory dance.
Meanwhile, Dan McGowan tries to explain why we didn't upload a video yesterday, but is accosted by Jeff Aderman.
2018-01-10 03:20:22 +0000 UTC View Post
In which Dan Monda and Pat run through a section of "Creature", and Dan McGowan secretly records Dan Monda flipping out on the end of "Rivermen"!
2018-01-08 04:38:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The Tea Club gives a (silly) tour of the Big Blue North artist's residence "The Fort".
2018-01-08 03:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Disks, tubs, sparkles, and how they affect your drum tone. Dan Monda gives the most controversial drum tour of all time.
2018-01-06 05:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an example of what musicians "actually do".
2018-01-05 03:40:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a little treat we threw together for all ya filthy animals! Christmas music can be very divisive. Case in point, the hilariously controversial tune by Sir Paul McCartney called "Simply Having A...
2017-12-22 23:29:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I love music that sounds “icy”. I think my affinity for it started with a song called “IceClock” from our first album, General Winter’s Secret Museum. It's become something of a Tea...
2017-12-02 20:23:45 +0000 UTC View PostThis little diddy is something that I started writing way back in the day, when I was probably about 14 or 15 years old. I wrote it immediately after learning a song from one of my favorite video game...
2017-11-24 02:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post
The original paper that I wrote the lyrics to this song on is dated December 5th, 2002. I was 16. I can vividly remember the evening that I wrote them.
I was looking out my window and watching the s...
2017-11-07 23:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post
In the summer of 2006 I borrowed a mini-van from my then girlfriend’s mom (future wife and mother-in-law!) and drove up to Jersey City, NJ with my brother Dan and our friend and drummer Kyle to reco...
2017-10-18 03:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
