5 days left to submit HOF 2025 ballot — hof.umphreys.com/choose Still time for a refresher/crash course on a strong UM vintage 2nu.gs/4rc4Jya

Finally getting around to Boston > Philly > DC Valentines Run This Unevolved jam is the best kind of filthy ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Gonna start calling Believe the Lie “Sammy Sosa” — whispers of PED use, all of which Lie denies, have kept this legendary song out of the HOF, despite terrific moments. Pharmacy-grade🤘🏽Rawk🤘🏽was the only performance enhancer found in 4.18.24, 3.16.24, 6.29.23, 6.17.23, 8.12.21, & 6.20.21 #umphreys

Umphreys HOF 25 Ballot submitted ✅ Shout out to 3 songs looking to make their 1st HOF album: Uncommon, Yoga Pants & Believe the Lie (special shout to 4/5 UMBowl BtL feat. bday boy Myers takin us to church) Somehow last few years of BtL bangers didn’t get enough love, pretty please vote this one🤘🏽

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Feel good with 60% of my Umphreys HOF25 ballot 🏆 4/5 Believe the Lie 🏆 Church w/Kris one last time 🕺🏾Bayliss earworm treats💃🏽 5/22 Uncommon 6/1 Yoga Pants 11/7 In the Kitchen 👾 Beam Us Up Scotty 👽 5/23 Bridgeless, 25-min tour de force in Zwang’s 2nd show 😃 4-Min Happy Place😃 10/25 Escape Goat

Jimmy Knowledge has never led me astray

The annual gauntlet of winnowing a year’s worth of shows into a 10-choice ballot is here Umphreys 2025 brought 🔥🔥 Using the next 2 weeks to reach #UMHOF enlightenment with this playlist of contenders: first 23 are my top shelf selections + 3 best covers + 34 more worth a listen 👂🏽 2nu.gs/4rZKlkz

New episode of We Move Through Stormy Weather is out! I have a LONG overdue chat with @goldlikejoel.bsky.social about all things @umphreys.com from Blueprints to Zwang and more! Check it out now wherever you get your podcasts!

What do Erma, Stevie, Sharon, Prince, Krasno, Anders, Al Green, Sam Cooke, Mary J Blige, Jimmy Cliff, Beatles, Blues Bros, Grateful Dead, De La Soul & other artists/bands all have in common? They performed love songs, collected & arranged on this Spotify playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1il...

What do Aretha, Dylan, The Boss, Marley & son, Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, Little Feat, Bad Company, The Ramones, Phish, Umphreys McGee, CSNY, JGB, MMJ, UB40, SCI & other artists/bands all have in common? They performed love songs, collected and arranged on this Nugs playlist: 2nu.gs/4kIbgzc

A Valentine treat for #music lovers—Most Playlists Spell Something, Volume 4: LOVE FINDS A WAY TO SHINE THROUGH Enjoyed gathering & arranging this bouquet of “Love” songs w/handful of different selections b/w platforms #musicsky Nugs: 2nu.gs/4cuBF18 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/1il...

An Umphreys McGee show is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get… Last night included covers by Pink Floyd (Time), Neil Young (Harvest Moon) and Hall & Oats (I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)) 🤘❤️

Riding the momentum of its inclusion on “Blueprints,” Unevolved’s been played 3x since Scotty took over the kit: 12.31.25, 1.16.26, 1.30.26 Each performance adds something unique & invigorating, a good barometer of the Zwang Effect to hear this exhilarating song, ironically, evolving #umphreys

Hey @goldlikejoel.bsky.social, what toy were you using to generate the crazy effects ~8-min mark of Unevolved?

Came across the Knoxville Fuzz from last March — hands down the best segue of 2025, a funkdafied Glory transition that’s worth a spin Also hearing teases ~7:30 from Donny Hathaway’s Voices Inside (Everything is Everything), ie Willie Weeks solo cc: @bizarchive.bsky.social @jwelsh8.bsky.social

Petition for Killing In The Name opener

The St Louie No Diablo explores rare diabolical terrain, fitting for the song’s 1st deployment as a set opener #umphreys #YesDiablo

A birthday present for @umphreys.com — Most Playlists Spell Something, Volume 3: UMPHREYS IS RADICAL Listen: 2nu.gs/4r0ckQI 17 tracks total, 13 inspired by UM’s “Lego Method” songwriting-via-improv ethos Can @goldlikejoel.bsky.social identify the 7 song seeds w/their future song? #umphreys #music

There’s No Crying in Mexico Wappy Sprayberry End of the Road Nothing too Fancy Thin Air Yoga Pants Example 1 In The Kitchen Get In the Van Hurt Bird Bath Tinkles E: Front Porch

Fun fact: UM’s first few shows in Jan/Feb 1998 were billed as “Fat Tony” — blurb in Jan. 21, 1998 Observer (Notre Dame’s campus newspaper) reads in part: FAT TONY the highly reputed ensemble featuring Mike Mirro, Brendan Bayliss, Joel Cummins and Pony will debut at BRIDGET’S TONIGHT! #umphreys

Happy 28th to @umphreys.com 🥳🤘🏽🥳🤘🏽🥳🤘🏽🥳🤘🏽🥳🤘🏽🥳🤘🏽 Witnessing your evolution from South Bend bar band to international show stoppers continues to be a sincere treat. May the muses keep fueling your creative fire for another couple decades #umphreys #livemusic #bridgetmcguires

Encouraging signs to see UM’s two new multi-sectional behemoths — the *gestalts* known as Unevolved & Concessions — receiving more rotation love and, more importantly, tinkering w/compositional form (see exhibits 1 and 2). Deploying them as set bookends may be months away… #umphreys #creativejuices

Positively scrumptious segue from FF —> Draconian, turbo-charging the first section’s tempo FF’s lyrical Stew is impressive for BB’s density of flow — can we call this the Credit Card Stew? Open to better ideas #umphreys #Aspen #livemusic

The fucking mirrorball 🤩

Full(-ish) Jack Straw filmed via various crew members’ phones. They did such a good job on this cover. youtu.be/aLVDXRzCjc8?...

Jack Straw cover debut, and I’m told by someone in the room that Scotty slayed on lead vocals.

Is this supposed to be Bobby Knight shredding gnar? #umphreys #Aspen

Two incredible Umphrey’s shows at the Salt Shed this past weekend. Ben Factor really lit up that room with a very impressive and creative lighting display all weekend. Band was hot both nights and didn’t waste a minute either show. Crowd was rowdy af.

Alas, can’t swing round 2 at Salt Shed tonight. Two free Umphreys tickets, send me a DM if interested 🤘🏽

Concessions delivering all the feels with a rainbow full of sound #umphreys #SaltShed #livemusic

There is no band like Umphreys Mcgee! @umphreys.com

#Umphreys Night 1 @saltshedchicago.bsky.social #SaltShed #lights #livemusic

#Umphreys #SaltShed

Umphreys at Salt Shed, Night 1: Dynamite set 1. Juicy improv in Mantis, Puppet & Linear. Concessions was multi-faceted exclamation point, Ben Factor mesmerized during chill build before euphoric end section Chef’s kiss to cap set with rare beaut Bullhead City & Black Water sing-a-long #umphreys

My sweetheart & lil man are late scratches for tonight’s rock show at Salt Shed 😕 My cuz (UM noob) & I will make full use of extra dance space in the seats, though would prefer tix got someone in door for whoever needed nudge to add Umph to their Fri night #Miracle cc @joshterry.bsky.social

Wake up nerds it’s Umphrey’s McGee weekend in Chicago! 2 nights at the best venue in the city coming in HOT! Start the new year right and don’t miss out.

For all the Umphreys fans that were stuck in the freezer last night, please give the Unevolved from last night a listen. You won’t regret it.

Soul version of Back in Black to close set 3, fuck yeah 🤘🏽 #umphreys #ACDC

Whatever Joel did with that descending scale action during the middle jam was baller Can’t believe this is only the 4th ever Unevolved & first since 12.10.24 (over 90 shows on the bench, 1st time with Zwang) One of the coolest drum segments coming up, BRING IT ON #umphreys

Friggin love that Unevolved storms out of the gates as song numero uno in 2026. Even better that it’s a horn-y version 🎺 🎷 This song bangs so hard #umphreys #HappyNewYear

Umph throwin down the funk with the debut of Parliament’s Do That Stuff Marks the 2nd song from the P-Funk universe added to UM’s repertoire, along with Hit It and Quit It (debuted 12.31.13) #umphreys #umphlove #funk #NYE #danceparty

#umphlove #umphreys #um

Pay The Snucka #umphreys

Nothing Too Fancy #umphreys

Jake teasing Enter Sandman before cannonballing back into All in Time. What a treat

Crosseyed & Painless?!?!?! C&P’s only been played twice before tonight: 5.27.23 (w/Moe) & 6.13.25 (also w/Moe) #umphreys #TalkingHeads

Damn, wonder when (if?) the last time Divisions, DBK, N2F, Much Obliged & All in Time were played in the same show. Quite the quintet of elder bangers 🤘🏽 #umphreys

Much Obliged veered into delicious evil terrain before > Wife Soup. Pretty dope lights during MO jam, wish that had kept going for a bit more #umphreys