on tour now
5th-grade Thanksgiving Cards to Take Home to Mommy & Daddy

happy thanxgiving! felt like making a 5th-grade card expressing what we’re thankful for—you guys!


Dealerships in the Night Townships

“DEALERSHIPS” (track #17 off Eternity of Dimming) live in Chicago for Audiotree.

Here is the full 50 min. session:


The Billboard Dentist from White Lake to East Lansing with His Day-Glo Halo Sentence Entrancing

We played a secret free show in East Lansing last night—similar to the secret house shows we’ve done in Baton Rouge, Chicago, etc. lately. Unbridled & raw fleshy intimacy. Where else should we do this? Photos & article here: http://bit.ly/SwkJZS


US Announcement for Eternity of Dimming via Paste Magazine & “Black Holes” Stream

Check out the US Announcement for Eternity of Dimming via Paste Magazine & “Black Holes” Stream here!


Frontier Ruckus signs to LOOSE MUSIC in Europe / debuts first European single

(photo by Sean Cook, Chicago)

We are thrilled to announce that we’ve signed to the fabulous UK label Loose Music (Dawes, Deer Tick, The Felice Brothers, Lucero, etc.) in Europe.

The European single “Eyelashes” is now the Song of the Day over at The Line Of Best Fit + release details.

Exciting news on what’s going on stateside coming SOON.


two huge year-end Michigan dates + performance with legend Wanda Jackson

(photo by Sean Cook in Chicago—where we return to play this Friday at Martyr’s [tickets])

MICHIGAN: we’ve announced two huge shows to end out this year—Lansing on 11/30 at The Loft (tickets) + Detroit on NEW YEAR’S EVE at The Majestic Theatre w/ Greensky Bluegrass (tickets). These shows will ramp us nicely into 2013—what we have declared as “The Year of Frontier Ruckus” or, the “Entrance to the Eternity of Dimming”.

We are also thrilled to announce that we’ll be performing w/ Wanda Jackson—the Queen of Rockabilly/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee—12/8 Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, also w/ Jonny Fritz (Jonny Corndawg)—(tickets).

As always, check out the other dates we have this fall, from Minneapolis to Austin and back, here.


and on the loose its occupants—those 90s prom dates—careen. I tongue at my molar—

folks in the following cities, beware—these 4 men are suspected to soon be on the loose: Chicago, Milwaukee, Ames, Kansas City, Norman, Denton, Austin, Houston, Baton Rouge (secret), Jackson, Oxford, St. Louis, Columbia, East Lansing (secret), Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, Madison, Marquette, Minneapolis. check dates to assure safety.


Ice Ice Baby

(photo by Sean Cook, Chicago)

The first leg of the fall tour concludes tonight in Chapel Hill, NC at Local 506. Thanks to everyone who’s been coming out. Great crowds. Long marathon time-warp sets, diverse in era-ethos and personal mythology minglings.

Straight home to Michigan thru the night for some cider mill/autumn chill action. xo


A T-Shirt Your Mom Wears from a Tournament of Soccer You Played in 1998

We found this guy to model our radical new 90s t-shirt. He just had THAT look. Good news is, you can look just as tubular if you head over to the Frontier Ruckus store.


Deader-Malls & Nightfalls

The cover of our last album, but a few short years later—subtly deader & weightier as a dense receptacle of memory & time. But gloom not! New songs of living memory & memorable life are imminent!