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09/05/2024

An inside peek at a busy weekend full of photoshoots and great music....

An inside peek at a busy weekend full of photoshoots and great music.

09/05/2024

New blog incoming later today! Don't forget to subscribe and drop comments. Let us know what you want to hear about in the local music scene.

Seriously... All my big ideas are going to the podcast right now. 😅

08/31/2024

Come down to hilltop tavern and hang out with humble crumb tonight! Band goes on soon!

08/26/2024

08/15/2024 "The closer we are, the more we have to pay attention to one another" Theo Catch up, that's what I'm playing. Things are back on track and I'm sitting here writing my second blog of the day, pondering the third, and contemplating bothering Matt to see if we have any photos from the recent calendared events. Did they even happen?...

08/15/2024 “The closer we are, the more we have to pay attention to one another”Theo Catch up, that’s what I’m playing. Things are back on track and I’m sitting here w…

08/25/2024

08/07/2024 This issue was indeed written the date specified, but as life would have it something came up and I had to wait a while to get to it. Boo, I know. Things have been insane, not just for me personally, but all over the place. This will be a special Double (or maybe triple now that it's been a few more days since I wrote this intro...smh GET IT TOGETHER ALREADY!!) Edition of the blog....

08/07/2024 This issue was indeed written the date specified, but as life would have it something came up and I had to wait a while to get to it. Boo, I know. Things have been insane, not just for m…

08/03/2024

08/03/2024 We are back with another issue of blackhat Buzz, and to be honest I actually forgot what the blog was called until right this moment since I haven’t referred to it by name in a while. Lolz… I know my posting schedule has been spotty, but I am one moving part of many and sometimes I have to wait a few days to get the scoop from folks....

08/03/2024 We are back with another issue of blackhat Buzz, and to be honest I actually forgot what the blog was called until right this moment since I haven’t referred to it by name in a while. Lo…

07/24/2024

07/24/2024 Greetings everyone! It's been another one of those boring weeks for us, but honestly we relish the time off. This blog isn't always the most formal and polished of our works, but we still like to try and give you something useful if possible. Since there are no actual shows, recording sessions, or other studio projects that were actually worked on this week I thought I would humanize the group of us just a smidge and give you a little peek at what we thought were the highlights of our week....

07/24/2024 Greetings everyone! It’s been another one of those boring weeks for us, but honestly we relish the time off. This blog isn’t always the most formal and polished of our works,…

07/19/2024

07/18/2024 Days late and a dollar short as usual lately, many thanks for your patience friends. It’s been an interesting week. We had a show last Friday night at Frogee’s with JB and company that also happened to be Rhey’s birthday. I missed calling out birthdays to a lot of our Blackhat family the last few weeks. Total fail, but alas, I am only human....

07/18/2024 Days late and a dollar short as usual lately, many thanks for your patience friends. It’s been an interesting week. We had a show last Friday night at Frogee’s with JB and company that a…

07/09/2024

07/09/2024 Welcome back friends. My sincerest apologies for my absence once again. Let me tell you, I thought I was feeling emotional a few weeks ago when I last posted, but since then we lost our beloved doggo. His death sent me over the edge, where I was already barely holding on emotionally. I can play tough through most things and do my grieving in solitude, but the floodgates couldn’t hold any more....

07/09/2024 Welcome back friends. My sincerest apologies for my absence once again. Let me tell you, I thought I was feeling emotional a few weeks ago when I last posted, but since then we lost our …

06/13/2024

05/29/2024-06/13/24 What a rollercoaster life can be sometimes. But, I am here writing for you all once again now that I’ve had a moment to process all the events of the last few weeks. Many of you don’t know me personally, nor the Aunt of mine that passed away a week ago. I will not bore you with too many sappy details, but I will say this of her; she LOVED music....

05/29/2024-06/13/24 What a rollercoaster life can be sometimes. But, I am here writing for you all once again now that I’ve had a moment to process all the events of the last few weeks. Many of yo…

06/11/2024

Forgive the sudden silence and lack of blogs. The blackhat family experienced three deaths last week and we are taking a moment to grieve with friends and family.

I will be back with more updates about our events and podcast later this week.

In the meantime, hug your loved ones and tell them what they mean to you for tomorrow is never promised and today is a gift.

All the love,
OctoPi

05/24/2024

Shout out to Madu for being the chillest of homies. He came by for our podcast recording last weekend, and invited us all to Revolver's show afterwards.

"Wtf's on my head?!"

"Get out Matt, the green room is for VIP guests only!"

We love you unapologetically G. Always be exactly you. 😂🤣

05/24/2024

Waiting on track uploads from last weekend. Going to see what we got in the bag leading into session 2. Can't wait to share the pod with you folks!

05/22/2024

5/22/2024 Tl;dr We went to two shows, recorded two podcast episodes, and now mama is BIG tired. Also doing lots of art stuff. Nighty night. What a week it’s been… I am officially exhausted after a very long weekend of shows and (dramatic pause…) FINALLY recording our first two episodes of the Behind the SoundBoard Podcast. I don’t usually make it to many shows these days, but last weekend I attended two, of sorts, for two different bands....

5/22/2024 Tl;dr  We went to two shows, recorded two podcast episodes, and now mama is BIG tired. Also doing lots of art stuff. Nighty night.  What a week it’s been… I am officially exhaus…

05/15/2024

05/15/2024 Well, here I went thinking I’d caught up on blogs and was going to do better about staying on top of things… then I missed another week. I have an excuse, albeit a somewhat bogus one, but it’s a good story I swear! Shows: 05/03/2024 Twenty Dollar Prophets did Reggae Night at Frogee’s in Apple Valley. G Hippy and Johnny Carnage were also on the bill that evening....

05/15/2024 Well, here I went thinking I’d caught up on blogs and was going to do better about staying on top of things… then I missed another week. I have an excuse, albeit a somewhat bogus one, bu…

05/03/2024

05/03/2024 Sorry for the silent weeks. I’ve been enjoying the nice weather, doing a ton more plotting for the podcast and got myself a nice respiratory illness. Since we are a small operation that means if I am too sick to write the blog/posts/etc, there’s no one else available to step in and publish it for me. Good news is that it looks like we have a date scheduled to record episode one of the podcast, a solid name picked out, and we are ready to roll....

05/03/2024 Sorry for the silent weeks. I’ve been enjoying the nice weather, doing a ton more plotting for the podcast and got myself a nice respiratory illness. Since we are a small operation that …

04/24/2024

Forgive the lack of posts and blogs the last two weeks. I'm under the weather, but I'll be back with more news, events, and studio news in a day or two. 🤒🤧

04/12/2024

Hey Patricia Strong, Lyrae Girard and Blaze... You all win. 💕 I'll send off all your goofy aert once I'm finished.

Thanks for the love!

04/12/2024

04/10/2024 Welcome to another week at blackhat. It’s been slow folks. Lots of benefit and memorial shows these last few weekends. Our hearts broke with our friends over and over these last few weeks/months/years. We’ve lost so many vibrant souls in our local music community since 2019 (and before) it’s hard to really process all of what is missing. I won’t single any specific people out in this blog, but we love you, our dear friends, and we support you....

04/10/2024  Welcome to another week at blackhat. It’s been slow folks. Lots of benefit and memorial shows these last few weekends. Our hearts broke with our friends over and over these last fe…

04/09/2024

Hey friends,
If you'd still like to enter the free art drawing there's one day left to comment your animal/genre combo for a chance to win a piece of hand drawn art by our studio artist, 404 - The Lost Octopus!

04/07/2024

If you wanted to participate in the art waffle don't forget to enter on the original post before Friday, 04/12/24! You Still have a few days left! If you don't want the art, but still want to jump in and vote, that's ok too! You'll earn a chance to win a consolation prize just for voting!! 🤩

04/05/2024

ART Waffle TIME!!!! kinda...

Do you have bare walls that could use a bit of color? Would a Thrash Panda, or Emopossum just tie all your decor together? Do you just wanna participate for a laugh? Here's your chance to win your very own piece of artwork by our talented !

All you have to do to enter the contest is:

COMMENT your favorite Animal/Genre combination from the list below or throw out your own.
LIKE this post and FOLLOW our page if you haven't already!
SHARE this post with your friends so they can play too!

All entries will be entered into a drawing and if your name is picked, you will receive the combo that gained the most votes! (if you ask real nice, they might just do the one you picked too!) Free entry and art gets a free ride to your mailbox.
Entries only for US residents at this time.

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Deathmetal Donkey 🫏

04/04/2024

04/04/2024 Hey Cats, kittens, sh*ttens and thittens. From the title of this week’s blog I bet you can guess what we’ve been up to… yup, NOTHING! I guess it wasn’t entirely nothing, I got commissioned for another logo gig, but it was again scored by scrolling facebook and throwing my services out there a couple times on posts ISO logo designs....

04/04/2024 Hey Cats, kittens, sh*ttens and thittens. From the title of this week’s blog I bet you can guess what we’ve been up to… yup, NOTHING! I guess it wasn’t entirely nothing, I got commission…

03/27/2024

03/27/2024 Hello frens, and welcome to another edition of the blackhat Buzz. We had a few shows this week and I got to work on some new cover art for Doug Strange. All things considered, it’s been a pretty good week. Rhey Did a show on Friday at Frogee’s with Shawn from Paint the Town Rad, and Matt went to the Cross Eyed Cow Pizza in Oro Grande on Saturday with the…...

03/27/2024 Hello frens, and welcome to another edition of the blackhat Buzz. We had a few shows this week and I got to work on some new cover art for Doug Strange. All things considered, it’s been …

03/21/2024

03/17/2024 Good afternoon folks! It’s that day again. I haven’t had much time to devote to some of the regular blackhat stuff recently. I've found myself rather preoccupied with goofy art since spending all that time making stores for blackhat, Lost Octopus, and designing a bunch of merch for our MaDu collection. I needed a bit of a break from all the planning and typing and Adobe-ing....

03/17/2024 Good afternoon folks! It’s that day again. I haven’t had much time to devote to some of the regular blackhat stuff recently. I’ve found myself rather preoccupied with goofy art sin…

03/14/2024

03/13/2024 Howdy! I know, I know….I said I would be back the next week and then went ahead and skipped the blog anyway. We here at blackhat truly understand how challenging and busy life can be and how difficult mental health struggles can be to manage. I needed a few extra days to meditate on all of the many projects that I’ve been working on and push through the ones I could manage easiest last week while battling with my anxiety and wonderful ADHD....

03/13/2024 Howdy! I know, I know….I said I would be back the next week and then went ahead and skipped the blog anyway. We here at blackhat truly understand how challenging and busy life can be and…

03/12/2024

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02/29/2024

02/28/24 Welcome back folks! This week, since we didn’t have any blackhat shows, I have decided to explore a more educational topic. Artistic VOICE! It’s something I’ve struggled with for a long, long time. Sure, I’m an artist, but for the longest time I’ve been under the impression that I was not worthy of being called a professional. Sure, folks pay me money to do art things, which makes me some level of working professional, but let me tell you the imposter syndrome is REAL....

02/28/24 Welcome back folks! This week, since we didn’t have any blackhat shows, I have decided to explore a more educational topic. Artistic VOICE! It’s something I’ve struggled with for a long, l…

02/22/2024

02/21/2024 This week was a week of days…many days. Some of the days we did things, music related things. Other days, we did not do those things. Some of the things happened on friday, and some were other days. Pictures were taken of these things, but the only one I got was this: All jokes aside, we had a couple shows this last weekend....

02/21/2024 This week was a week of days…many days. Some of the days we did things, music related things. Other days, we did not do those things. Some of the things happened on friday, and some were…

02/15/2024

02/14/2024 Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight friends! Just kidding. We had quite the weekend. Friday night blackhat celebrated Chris Gonzales’s birthday with a killer show at Frogee's. They had quite the lineup featuring Dezbo, G Hippy, Johnny Carnage, and Twenty Dollar Prophets. The biggest announcement of the night that I heard was that Chris is going to be a dad!...

02/14/2024 Good afternoon, good evening and goodnight friends!  Just kidding. We had quite the weekend. Friday night blackhat celebrated Chris Gonzales’s birthday with a killer show at Frogee&…