Rob Taxpayer

#348: "All That We Wanted Was to Witness Something Beautiful"

I'm back from the west coast Taxpayers tour, and I gotta tell you - I have been feeling such creative exhaustion recently. Is that a thing? Has anyone ever felt that? Too many plates spinning, t...

Punk Rock Integrity - Side Stage Conversations with The Taxpayers

Hey y’all! Just wanted to share this Circle Breaker interview from when we were in NJ.

We are in California right now gearing up for tour. Looking forward to seeing some of you! - Rob

#347: "Purple Mountain Lies"

Hi folks! I'm back from the east coast Taxpayers tour. It was so great to see so many of you Song of the Week Clubbers.

This is one that I started working on before tour and finally got a cha...

World Refugee Day Concert Livestream

Starting now...ish!

Protests, Moonlit Fishing, Philadelphia, and More

Hi folks!  Happy Father’s Day to the dads out there.

Been a wild week for the world, but when is it not these days?  Yesterday morning we were on our way to the Minneapolis No Kin...

Interview on Nola County Radio

Hey y’all! Here’s an interview I did with Jimi Palacios for American Roots Roundup and Nola County Radio.

Jimi is an old pal of mine from New Orleans who has become an omnipresent voice i...

World Refugee Day Benefit Concert

Hey y'all! There is going to be a benefit concert on Friday June 20, 2025 that I wanted to invite you to. You can attend in person if you will be in 2025-06-06 02:53:30 +0000 UTC View Post

#346: "Zero Gun Salute" and California shows and B-Sides!

The RIVER! One for the river. The Mississippi for me, but they are all great rivers. I owe many long overdue songs to many places and people and creatures and things, but the river has always be...

#345: "Hail Oxygen"

How exciting!  A truly strange one.  Been a while since one of these came out of me.  I was starting to worry that I didn’t have these in me anymore.

I can be so controlling ...

#344: "Clouds Forever"

This one has been kicking around in my head for the past few months, finally got around to finishing it tonight at the end of an appropriately cloudy day. Hope you all are hanging in. -r

Clo...

Interview on Witchita's NPR Station

Hey y'all! Thought I'd share this interview I did with Jedd Beaudoin for Witchita Publ...

#343: "Truck's Dream (Instrumental)"

#342: "Tunnel Logic"

Hey folks! Here's a new demo I've been working on. It's called "Tunnel Logic".

It was great to see some of you at the fest in Los Angeles last weekend and you midwesterners the weekend be...

Circle Breaker SHALL BE RELEASED.

Hear ye, hear ye, I hereby deem the new Taxpayers album, Circle Breaker, be released into the world.

Listen to it 2025-03-21 18:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Podcast Interview With Rob and Noah

Here's an interview that me and Noah did with the podcast Back On the Grind about the new album, the philosophy of the Taxpayers, and more. Pepe, the host, is a longtime radical thinker, record la...

Some Reviews of the New Taxpayers Singles

Hey gang. Thought I would share some of the reviews of the new Taxpayers songs because, hey, it's pretty cool that people are taking the time to review these tunes.

2025-03-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

New Taxpayers Song and Video - I Am One Thousand

Hi folks. Today we’re releasing the song “I Am One Thousand” from our new album Circle Breaker. Link to all Taxpayers stuff...

Happy Mardi Gras, People!!!

Have a little Professor Longhair for breakfast, shake your booty, do whatcha wanna!

Resistance in a Strange World

Hi folks. This photo slideshow is a list I’ve been working on to help me feel less powerless and to remind myself of things I can do to affect change in today’s world. I would love to hear any ...

#341: "Bad Hand Coming Down"

God help us.

New Taxpayers Song and Music Video!

Hi folks. Just wanted to share this new song off of the upcoming Taxpayers album Circle Breaker. This is a neat one fo...

#340" Zip and Pop Bingo Banana"

Well, here's something nice - it's me and Zippy's first collaborative song. He played the glockenspiel and tongue drum, I played the ukulele. We both sing. Zippy has a well-timed "fuck" towards ...

#339: "Not My Fault" (Big Tree Pond)

Hey, here’s a new thing.  I recently took another crack at the Big Tree Pond script that me and Elise started working on back in, geez, 2018, maybe?  Some time during the first Trump ad...

Taxpayers Headlining L.A. Fest April 5th!

Hey folks! This hasn’t been publicly announced yet, so I wanted to give you Song of the Week Clubbers a heads up a day early in case any of you southern Californians wanted to scoop up a ticket t...

Wanna be in the next Taxpayers music video???

We wanna put you and your family and your pets in the next Taxpayers music video! Does your goldfish have what it takes? Email us a short (VERTICAL!) video of your dog/hamster/toddler/grandma danci...

NEW TAXPAYERS ALBUM: CIRCLE BREAKER! TWO MUSIC VIDEOS! VINYL, TAPE, AND SHIRT PREORDERS!

Hi folks!  Well hot dang, it's finally here, and I'm posting this here at the Song of the Week Club before anywhere else.  We're excited, proud, and a little nervous to announce the new T...

#338: "City Eater"

Like most weirdos, I spend a lot of idle time thinking about the nature of existence.  And it gets more pronounced around the start of a new year - something about another notch in the passage...

Secret Ticket Link for Taxpayers Midwest shows!

Hey y'all! Just wanted to drop a secret ticket link for you to a couple Taxpayers shows in March - Minneapolis, Chicago, and Detroit. We will probably announce these later this evening, but wante...

Howdy from Tasmania!

I’m sitting here next to a sleeping Zippy looking out at the ocean in Dodges Ferry, Tasmania, wondering how I got so darn lucky to get to travel with my family to distant lands and play music for...

Hello from Australia!

Just wanted to share with you this Mark Downie appreciation post! That’s Mark on the standup bass, and he’ll be joining me and Elise on Saturday in Brisbane. Mark runs the @hobofopo festival in...