Hello. Here is #18: Everyone’s Exhausting (Except for You) / Palo Alto (to Pretoria). I ended up writing about that dude again because I wrote that bigger thing about that dude, and these songs are also on that bigger thing about the dude. It’s also about love. And snakes.

Saturday, June 13th. Snow Park. Downtown Oakland. The Fourth Annual Dax Lee Chili Cook Off. All ages. Come by.

Chilimaxxing in the middle of the damn town on 6/13. All ages. Free unless you consider chili to be a soup. Then it costs $200.

New Substack. Great.

Hello. This is Substack #16. It’s a long boy, and I apologize. You’re probably better off reading it on their app through the link in the bio, but maybe not because they don’t have a dark mode and apparently hate retinas. I just said that as if people are reading these. Goodbye.

Substack #15: Sunny Day. I wrote a bunch of stuff about the song “Sunny Day,” except I didn’t and ended up writing about a song that doesn’t exist. That is completely fine. Or it isn’t. bhamiltonwastaken.substack.com/p/15-sunny-day

Substack #14: Tequila and Marigolds

Substack #13: Don’t Ever Hide Your Face. This one is about a song that is faster than most of our other songs. It is also probably inspirational. Ok. Happy Easter. Enjoy all of those eggs. Thanks for reading.

Hello Communist Twitter, Here is Substack #12: Kyle Thinks a lot of Very Cool Thoughts. bhamiltonwastaken.substack.com/p/12-kyle-th... I'm going to tag @marcmaron.bsky.social because he probably knows who Roy Nichols, Roy Buchanan, and Don Rich are. I don't know what else to do here. Goodbye.

Substack #11: Marion Out West Hello. Here is the eleventh one of whatever these are. This one digs into John Wayne and Ronald Reagan’s good ol’, down-home form of stick-to-your-ribs, gee-shucks, wh*te nationalism. Giddy up.. Thanks for reading.

Substack #10: 6:15 at Mexicali Rose, Every Thursday.

“Substack #9: Hey Sunshine” is now available by putting your thumb on the below picture of Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute with his body as a Monster Energy can in the default desktop background of Window’s 95. Thanks for reading.

“Sunny Day” at Bottom of the Hill last December. Half of the city’s electricity was out and BART was temporarily closed that evening. I really hope that has changed. Video by Dave Pehling.

A new season of The Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour came out on YouTube today. They threw our tune “Back in the Line” in it at around an hour and thirty in. Mi gente. Watch “Comedy Jonestown” and “The Children of Ecstasy, (Radio Hour Ep 10)” if you haven’t seen them. Alright.

Hello. “Songs that other people wrote that I heard at some point, then played and recorded at some other point. Vol. 2” is now available on Bandcamp. I had some other stuff to say about it, but these commie fucks at BlueSky limit the character count. Attica. Attica.

Hello. Here is “Songs that other people wrote and I heard at some point, then played and recorded at some other point. Vol. 1.” Another offering with another horrible title before your year ends. Available on Bandcamp and all streaming things.

@bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social at Bottom of the Hill last Sunday, playing “Sunny Day”, from our recent self titled LP. Video by @bpaluzzi.bsky.social.

It just turned into Bandcamp Friday. Bandcamp doesn’t wet their beak on these days. In light of this we present to you an offering. A truce. A live blues. B. Hamilton “Fifty Feet From Where We Normally Are (Live at Sharkbite)” is out now. bhamilton.bandcamp.com/album/fifty-...

B. Hamilton “Fifty Feet From Where We Normally Are (Live at Sharkbite)” is now available on YouTube, and as an EP at midnight. Recorded on February 21st, 2025 at Sharkbite Studios. Jack London Square. Oakland, California.

Thanks for having us @roughtradepub.bsky.social

“Fifty Feet From Where We Normally Are (Live at Sharkbite)” comes out this Friday for viewing on YouTube and listening on all the streaming things.  BlueSky is a goddamn graveyard. Let's get some fourteen year old Russian kids with spicy language and internet access in here.

Spotify asked us to record a 30 second “year in review” clip for our fans, or whoever is listening to us without necessarily enjoying it. Like inadvertently being around a dull breeze, or any form of bird. We made this and they didn’t accept it. I'm going to call the police. #bhamilton #hashtags

“Back in the Line” and “Marion Out West” from our live thing at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland is out on YouTube. All of the tunes from that day will come out as a release before the end of the year. Here is a bit of “Release the Hounds.” Thanks for listening.

@bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social performing “Marion Out West” at Sharkbite studios a few months back with me on drums. #art #music #musicsky #musiciansky #newmusic #livemusic #drums #drumsky

Stoked this live recording of “Back in the Line”that @bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social did at Sharkbite studios is making its way online. More songs to come from this session. #art #music #nowplaying #musiciansky #musicnews

“Back in the Line” live at Sharkbite Studios. Jack London Square. Oakland, California. Here is a video and a link to it. We’ll throw the entire session out soon. Stephen Miller is a bitch. youtu.be/VTBgMAfePeU?...

Bay Beats, through the San Francisco Public Library, has graciously decided to accept three of our releases over their past three entry periods. Their new selections are up as of today. This is what music sounds like in a place with weed supermarkets. baybeats.sfpl.org

“Back in the Line” live at Sharkbite Studios. @marcmaron.bsky.social is this solo a Billy Gibbons rip off? We’re divided.

“Back in the Line” live at Sharkbite Studios in Jack London Square. Oakland, California. Recorded by @gse.bsky.social Filmed by @catmanofoakland.bsky.social Color by Rachel Valdivia @okrmusic.com / played drums Ian Miller played bass Ryan Christopher Parks / played guitar and singing

B. Hamilton at Sharkbite Studios in Jack London Square. Oakland, California. “Back in the Line” will come out on Monday, October 6th. “Marion Out West” will come out on Friday, October 11th.

B. Hamilton is opening a Hardly Strictly Bluegrass afterparty for The Mekons this Saturday at The Make Out Room in San Francisco. It is also a benefit for Sweat Relief upon looking at the flyer. Nice. They are very influential and know what John Peel’s vocal mics smelled like.

A Bandcamp Friday offering: bhamilton.bandcamp.com/album/good-f...

Tomorrow.

Substack #6: On a Different Day. Great.

Ok. Here is the fifth one of these things. This one is about a song called “Susan” that I’ve played way too many times. I’ll post another one next Sunday around 6pm. I slept in today like I said I was going to last week. Mission accomplished. I have 55 more characters to use. Fuck Curtis Yarvin.

Substack #4: North San Juan

Ryan started a Substack to put stuff he writes somewhere aside from in the trash. Some of the stuff he writes is this sentence you're reading. Ryan is very handsome and the voice of a generation. Each post uses a song of ours as a prompt to write about god knows what. Here is this weeks offering.

@bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social is playing at the Make Out Room in SF this Friday, August 15th with The Stingray Band (featuring Greg Loiacono of The Mother Hips). Here’s us playing “I’m Honest” at the Kilowatt Bar a few weeks ago. #bhamilton #musicsky #drummersky #drumsky #musicians #livemusic

August 15th, at the make-out room in San Francisco. A city so in debt to psychedelia that they let a company called “pets.com” hobble the largest economy in human history while tourists from far reaches of the globe ate soup out of loaves of bread and stared at an island-prison. Far out, man. ✌️

Hello. I made a graveyard on Substack for all the garbage I've writing and will write. Great. bhamiltonwastaken.substack.com

Apple refuses to recognize the word "Lumineer" because they've repeatedly failed to recognize suspenders as viable clothing to hold up trousers. Shame on you, Apple. Do better.

Playing “Release the Hounds” with @bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social last Saturday at the Kilowatt bar. Video by Dave Pehling. #drumsky #musicsky #drummerfeed #drums #musiciansky

Playing “Marion” with @bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social at the Kilowatt in SF last Saturday. Video by Lenny Gonzalez. #drummersky #drumsky #musiciansky #drummers #drums

Playing “Marion” with @bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social at the Kilowatt in SF last Saturday. Video by Lenny Gonzalez. #drummersky #drumsky #musiciansky #drummers #drums

Were The Lumineers real or did I make them up when I accidently smoked pot in a barn.

I went on @protonicreversal.bsky.social to stutter about the new record for two hours. That clicking sound is either my mic, or me nervously fidgeting with the pocket knife on my Leatherman. Neat.

B. Hamilton – “Release the Hounds” Classic rock, or at least its spirit made sound once again, is alive and well, and songs like this are the proof. bhamilton.bandcamp.com/track/releas... @bhamiltonwastaken.bsky.social www.etherdiver.com/2025/06/20/o... #Rock #ClassicRock #Musicsky