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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 1d

up now at www.twfps.com/past-episode... is the october 8, 2025 edition of the watt from pedro show w/on-air guest josh hight

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 3d

up now at www.twfps.com/past-episode... is the october 6, 2025 edition of the watt from pedro show w/on-air guests adam and rich of sweet water

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 7d

out today on eiderdown records is the album from: the albumen - the debut release from greg kelley and myself's proj w/help from some of his buddies john seman, jeffery taylor, mark ostroski and noel kennon!

eiderdownrecords.bandcamp.com/album/albumen

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 8d

up now at www.twfps.com/past-episode... is the october 1, 2025 edition of the watt from pedro show w/on-air guests break to broken

get the free twfps app (v3) for listening on your leash or tablet that's got no spam: apps.apple.com/us/app/the-w... (ios) + play.google.com/store/apps/d... (android)

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 17d

happy bday john coltrane!

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 18d

mr randy joe hears "double nickels on the dime" for the first time...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_9O...

forty years after it first came out!

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime ALBUM REACTION │NOVEMBER PUNK

YouTube video by Randy Joe

www.youtube.com

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 22d

new sleaford mods tune "megaton"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoJ...

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 23d

no, tenko first, crimony - she's great!

mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · 23d

I think it's her turn next - set change now...

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Aug 6

I talked to jon d'auria about the second _three layer cake_ album for "bass magazine" and it was a good time!

bassmagazine.com/mike-watt-an...

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Jul 28

thank you a.d. amorosi for talking to brandon seabrook, mike pride and myself about the latest _three-layer cake_ album "sounds the color of grounds" on _otherly love records_ in "jazztimes"

jazztimes.com/features/pro...

Mike Watt, Brandon Seabrook and Mike Pride Bake Another Deliciously Melodic and Free Three-Layer Cake - JazzTimes

Three guys walk into a bar — or a virtual recording studio — and create rattling, calamitous rhythms, slippery edits and freewheeling, squealing, cracking guitar … Read More "Mike Watt, Brandon Seabro...

jazztimes.com

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Jul 3

pre-orders being taken now for tim kerr's "student for life" mike watt tshirt from bifocal media

bifocalmedia.com/product/mike...

ships third week in july, limited to three hundred

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Jun 27

out today is the second album from three-layer cake

"sounds the color of grounds"

threelayercake.bandcamp.com/album/sounds...

mike pride: drums
brandon seabrook: guitar
mike watt: bass, voice

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Jun 27

out today is the seventh e.p. from jaded azurites

"2 + 2+ 4 + 0 - 1"

jadedazurites.bandcamp.com/album/2-2-4-...

karen schoemer: voice
mike watt: bass

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Jun 16

good people, happy bloomsday!

hammer.ucla.edu/programs-eve...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold...

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · May 29

thank you so much, holly, first gig tonight in brighton!

mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · May 29

yes, that album has one tune on it w/me, it's my demo of "burnin' up" w/me on everything... thurst put that on that record w/out me knowing it!

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · May 13

brian walsby concept/artwork tshirt using his portrait of mike watt in 1980 along w/lyrics to watt's "joe mccarthy's ghost" which is a song he wrote for the minutemen back then. even though that's fortyfive years ago, brian thought it was appropriate now!

bifocalmedia.com/product/mike...

Official, Exclusive Mike Watt "Joe McCarthy's Ghost T shirt By Brian Walsby. Limited to 300.

"Can you really be sure of the goddamn time of day? Can you take the dirt from the fist of a foreigner? Are you gonna fight when they call your number? Can you toe the line? Can you repeat what you've...

bifocalmedia.com

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · May 12

out now on clearly records is a collaboration between pierre de gaillande and mike watt entitled "working batterie" - the concept being every piece began as a rhythm track created by a different drummer which watt then played bass on...

workingbatterie.bandcamp.com/album/volume...

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · May 11

cassette tape available!

out now is the second _mow_ release which is also their first full-lenghth album, "smoke & errors" which features andy livingston and mike pursley of _mold omen_ plus mike watt

m-o-w.bandcamp.com/album/smoke-...

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Apr 9

very kind of matt watton

daily.bandcamp.com/lists/mike-w...

though I did use a pick up to "double nickels..." and sometimes after like for j and for the stooges!

The Unstoppable Mike Watt

Rather than resting on his punk rock laurels, the legendary bassist continues redefining the genre with new projects and collaborations.

daily.bandcamp.com

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mike watt @wattfrompedro.bsky.social · Apr 1

happy bday d boon!

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