Live While You're Alive...EP

We are so very excited to announce the release of our new EP "Live While You're Alive" this month!

After living with these five songs for the last year, and playing them all over the place, we deemed them worthy of recording.

The EP was recorded and produced by Brian Steckler up at his studio in Meadow Vista, CA. His musical insight and years of experience did these songs well and we're thrilled at how the message and intention of each song was captured on these tracks.

You can take a listen to a song or two from the EP by clicking here.

If you want to order the EP and have it shipped to your house, you can find it at our online store by clicking the image below:




Thanks for supporting our music and our mission.

Life is beautiful,
The Music Room

Our very own mandylion

We brought our friend Kyle Booterbaugh into the studio to track some delicious mandolin parts for our song "I Wanna Know You."
I wrote this song last summer while hanging out in rural villages in East Africa. The song is very chipper, which is quite appropriate since it's about the great lengths that God goes to reach out to us humans. Kyle has been an encouraging supporter of our band and music for a long time now, so it was an honor to have him track his parts on this song.

Recording: Day 1

We are at the "Stickhouse," which is the studio/home of producer, musician, audio engineer and sound arts extraordinaire, Brian Steckler. He has graciously allowed us to record five new songs in his music-making wonderland. His ear and vision for our songs is allowing us to capture the melodies and ideas that have previously remained unexpressed and seemingly, unattainable.

Yesterday, I finished tracking all of the drum parts and had a lesson in the art of "simplification." We've been playing around with the idea of titling the EP "Less is More" because we've been enjoying the more thoughtful, but minimal approaches to music taken by bands like Feist, Mumford and Sons, Alexi Murdoch, The Civil Wars, Gregory Alan Isakov, and others.

We're putting more "folk" in our "folk-rock" style.

TMR Santa Cruz

We're back in Lincoln doing stuff.

Dear friends,

You haven't heard from us for awhile. We'd like to apologize for that. We're not avoiding you, and we don't have any grudges held against you. Don't take it personally, it's not you, it's us.
We've dropped the ball big time in regards to keeping you informed on this blog. So allow me to inform you.

Aimee, Nick, Ezzy and I have been back in the railroad town of Lincoln, CA now for awhile. Although there have been some mini-trips here and there that took Aimee, Nick and Ezzy to San Diego, and then again to Colorado, none of these travels have been music-related, but have rather been for leisure and other life reasons.

Meanwhile, we haven't entirely neglected The Music Room. We have started recording some new songs that many of you have heard live, but aren't able to have in your possession. We are working right now to make a way for you to have these songs available for your listening pleasure at any moment you may choose.

Due to limited funds, we are still determining how many songs will go onto our next release. Will it be an EP or a full-length album, we've yet to know ourselves. Stay tuned for that.

I will tell you that some of the songs going on the next record are Be Here, Dark Outside, Rubbish, Ezekiel, I Wanna Know You and some others you've probably never heard of.

As far as shows go, we have a show once a month through December book and no more than that. We are really trying to make time for recording and polishing up these songs before we lay them down for historical preservation and mass consumption.

Thanks for checking in on us and caring to know what's up.

Peace and Good,
The Music Room

Photo courtesy of Kyle Booterbaugh