Well, our Operation Westcoast Rumble Tour with PK is officially over as of last night. PK played an amazing very Punk show in the basement of the Retox lounge in SF. It was an amazing show, and even though Picture Atlantic wasn’t there to play the show, we had a blast singing along and rocking out along side the other stoked crowd members.

Overall the tour really took us in Picture Atlantic for a surprising ride. Looking back, every show was absolutely fantastic in its own ways, and it made it all the better that we got to watch PK play every night. I’d especially like to say a huge thank you to our Fresno and San Jose hometown crowd, because you guys really came out and made the nights amazing, and we wouldn’t have been able to do this tour with out you guys. A huge thank you to Jesse Kennedy, Corie from SLO Brew, Josh White, Elmo Jams at Cinespace, Joey & all the guys in From Indian Lakes, Eric Fanali, Adam & Chelsea, Sol Rodriguez, Abuela Roa & Abuela Annie, Lucy Sotelo, Caitlin Bartunek, Stephanie & Anna, Sarah Anderson, Olivia for your awesome cooking, CoCo The Evil Wizard, Sandy for barking all night, Davey for being a better dog, Jess and Martha Rodriguez for continuing to inspire younger generations with your Godly and unconditional love for each other, Hazel and Vine, Caroline & Lily, Jonrey, Alison, Adi, Matthew Beringer for keeping me sane,Lil’ Horchata, Patricia & Ron & Ivana & Victoria, Jesus, and God for making this entire tour possible. We owe you more than our wallets or hearts could repay. This tour was the most fun we’ve ever had on the road, we think, and we are blessed to have shared it with the people that we did. We will try our hardest to come back to you all very soon.

As for the amazing news: We are going to release a new album at the end of the year. This is going to be a fun one for us, as we got to lay down some songs that we have had to keep on the back burner for a while. All the details will be announced later, but let it be known that we aren’t going to stop release music! And I think we mentioned in an earlier post that we took a day on tour to record with our friend Sahab Hobab. The song we recorded will be up soon for free download (Mixing takes a while people), and was actually a song that didn’t make it on to this new EP due to time constraints, so this will be exciting for us, and hopefully for you.

We love you all, and be blessed in your end of summer activities!

-Nik

Tour is closing its mighty gates shut, very soon. We’ll be playing Oakhurst tomorrow, and then after that San Jose, and for us guys in Picture Atlantic, that will mark the end of our tour. It really has been an amazing time so far, and we’ve met a lot of interesting and awesome people on the way. Sharing the road with PK has also been a true honor in the greatest sense of the word. They played an amazing set every night, and were absolutely hilarious to hang out with. I wish I could tell you some of the tour adventures we had with them, but I feel it would be unwise ;)

We took some days off in the middle of the tour, and today was one of those days. We had the blessing of being able to record at our friend Sahab Hobab’s studio in Fresno, CA today, and we were able to lay down all the tracks to a brand new song. To celebrate the tour, we’re going to be giving this song away in a free download shortly after the tour ends. We’ve played the song a couple times live, but in general its pretty much unheard, so we are excited to share it with you all!

I hope you’re all having an amazing summer, and for those of you who can, please come out with some friends and make these last two shows amazing moments in time and human history!

Much love to you all,

-Picture Atlantic

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