The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.
Jonathan MeiburgI certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.
Jonathan MeiburgIt's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and singing.
Jonathan MeiburgOne of our very favorite shows of 2008 was our Slowtrain instore. We drove straight from San Francisco, pulled up to the back of the store, dragged our entire setup inside and played our new album, Rook, start-to-finish - and they let us get away with it.
Jonathan Meiburg