John Roderick in studio
The Long Winters in the studio, while recording a follow-up to the Putting the Days to Bed album.
ZZ Top cover on Sweetheart 2010 compilation
It was only a matter of time before The Long Winters would record a song by the most famous bearded band of all. And ZZ Top’s Gimme All Your Lovin’ is quite obviously the perfect choice for Starbucks Valentine’s… » More inside
John blogs on GIVESeattle.org contribution
A couple of months ago the folks at GIVE asked me if the Long Winters could drum up a song for their benefit project, and it put us in a tough spot. We didn’t have a finished track from our new record,… » More inside
New song and video for GIVE Seattle online
Over 30 Seattle artists have contributed tracks to GIVE Seattle 2009, a downloadable music and video compendium for charity. The Long Winters recorded an acoustic version of new song Not Moving to Portland especially for the GIVE project, with Kathleen… » More inside
Not Moving To Portland – GiveSeattle video
John Roderick performs the new song “Not Moving to Portland” featuring Kathleen Edwards for www.giveseattle.org. This song can be downloaded from the GIVE website. » Read more about Give Seattle and The Long Winters’ contribution. Produced by Creature, directed by Branson… » More inside
Electric Aphorisms
When I was first introduced to Twitter it sounded to me like another in a long line of social networking tools that I could happily live without. Conventional wisdom seems to be that MySpace and Facebook and Twitter are giant… » More inside