Straight No Chaser Blog

The walrus just became my new favorite animal.

This all started tonight when my cousin posted a picture on Facebook of herself and her younger sister, circa 1989.  They are seated in a little red wagon and my younger cousin looks like her face has begun the slow, painful process of eating itself.  Seriously, her cheeks are freaking huge.  Like, physically impossible huge.  No child should ever suffer the immense weight of so

Hello, Chasers everywhere!

It's great to be home.  There's no place like it.  I speak for the rest of the guys when I say THANK YOU for the support and encouragement you've shown us already this year.  The best is yet to come...

How was Canada, you may be wondering.  Our northern neighbors were amazing and showed us the warmest of hospitality.  The country itself was beautiful, with its pristine mountain peaks towering above

Two years ago, on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, Straight No Chaser's debut album on Atlantic Records, Holiday Spirits, was released.  We in SNC found ourselves at our respective homes and workplaces, wondering where we were headed, how we were going make ends meet performing, and what putting a group of friends back together to sign a recording contract with one of the most storied labels in the industry truly entailed.  While a

Yes, it's 3:24 in the AM.  Yes, Mike and I are driving home for 11 hours tomorrow.  Yes, we promised each other we'd leave no later than 9:30.  Yes, I'm getting room service breakfast one last time at 8.  Yes, we just hung out altogether for one last hurrah at Harrah's tonight and we will feel the lack of sleep tomorrow.  Yes, it's all going to be worth it.

"Thank you" doesn't cut it.  Saying we appreciate the support our fans

So I'm walking up the ramp to the stage door tonight (after yet another great dinner at McCormick & Schmick's) and I am waved down by a smiling couple.  Happens every once in awhile, always a pleasant moment before a show.  I smile back to them, say hi, and stop in my tracks when they tell me that the small tuft of silver hair I barely see below the railing is our "oldest Chaser."  I'm intrigued.  I didn't know we had started

Two days have passed since we shared the stage with Barry Manilow and I don't quite know how to sum up the experience.  It went by so fast that parts of the performance are blurrier than others, but I'll always remember our time with him at sound check and backstage after his concert at Boardwalk Hall here in Atlantic City.  More on that soon, though...

Our (fantastic) management agency, Stiletto Entertainment, has represented