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Interview: Joyer

24 October 2025

Photo by Ave Davis

Green Day didn’t invent pop-punk, Nirvana didn’t invent grunge, but both inspired countless kids to start bands and make music. Recently, MJ Lenderman’s blend of ‘90s indie slacker-rock and alt-country has been critically and commercially well received and while there are many bands that were making this type of music before, or even at the same time, as Lenderman, it seems as if there are dozens of new releases that exist in the same universe.

The Sullivan brothers (Shane and Nick) who perform under the name Joyer grew up in north New Jersey before branching out to various cities on the East Coast and have released four full-length albums since 2019. Over time, Joyer’s sound has evolved, from a lo-fi indie rock sound to something closer to countrygaze, minus inclusion of a pedal steel guitar. The band’s latest, their second for the fledgling Philly label Julia’s War, On the Other Side of the Line, takes a step forward and has real crossover potential. Though Shane and Nick don’t live in the same city, the album is a hopeful collection of songs that helped ground the duo after a few hectic years.

You can catch Joyer on the road with bands like Rocket and Teethe through the end of the year; tour dates can be found at the end of this feature. Before Shane and Nick hit the road, they joined me from Nick’s place in Philadelphia to chat about genres, finding communities through social media, and indulging in my line of questions related to song titles, but not the songs or lyrics themselves.

How do you describe your sound?

NICK: It’s so hard. I feel like we try to be genre chameleons as much as we can while still being our sound, whatever that might be. I feel like we kind of had been saying slacker rock a little bit, because a lot of that 90s era indie rock is a big influence on us.

SHANE: I have such a hard time with genre names in general, especially now. I feel like there’s been so many new sub-genre words being created that it’s hard for me to keep up. I’m pretty boring, and I kind of, whenever I describe it to people I don’t know, I always just say indie rock, guitar-driven indie rock.

NICK: But it is interesting to hear what other people say. Like the country gaze stuff, if people equate our music to that, I’m like, “Okay, yeah, that’s cool.” A bunch of that kind of music definitely inspires us, so I’m not really mad about whatever anyone says.

You don’t have a pedal steel player, but I could see you on a bill with MJ Lenderman, that would make sense to me.

SHANE: You said you’re in Columbus, right? I’m sure you know Villagerrr. I feel like they fit into that style as well.

NICK: It’s kind of spread out, too, which I feel like a lot of times genres will stick in the same pocket of geographic places, but I feel like a lot of bands that we get compared to are kind of all across the country, which is interesting.

With the easy accessibility to music via streaming services, in the palm of your hand, you’ve got access to 70+ years of recorded music, so I imagine it’s possible to have a ton of different influences.

NICK: It’s kind of amazing. Our parents were rockers in their time, and we’ll find bands from their era that I’m like, “Mom, you know this band?” And she’s like, “No,” because she didn’t have the internet. Whoever came through to play, she knew. The internet’s kind of scary sometimes, but there’s definitely pluses with stuff like that.

Where did you guys grow up?

NICK: North Jersey, right outside of New York City.

I used to play ’80s hair metal songs for my kids when they were young. They didn’t know what the bands looked like and a lot of that music had a bit of a pop sound. My kids didn’t mind some of the stuff. Did your parents do that when you were younger, just throwing something on, that, as you grew up, you were like, “I can’t believe they made me listen to this when I was a kid”?

NICK: Yeah, totally. Our dad would listen to certain bands a lot, and I liked it at the time, and now it just kind of reminds me of just hearing it all the time in the car, like Rammstein. Our parents were big Rammstein fans. There’s a place in my heart for it, but also, I’m just like, I can’t believe that I really engaged with this music.

SHANE: But that’s really interesting how the context matters that much, and I feel like nowadays, I mean, I feel like that would never happen, because the context is everywhere, because bands need to have this digital aesthetic or visual aesthetic attached to them. Now, there’s no avoiding seeing what the band looks like, unless someone plays it for you.

When I was in college, there were music scenes like in Seattle, Chapel Hill, Chicago. I don’t know if geographic scenes still exist but now there are scenes and communities being formed online through social media.

SHANE: It’s so cool. That’s the one thing that I really do appreciate about social media is that it helps with exposure of getting our music out there, but it also helps us find music and other bands that maybe if we’re coming through another city, we could connect with and play a show with. Often it’s how we meet most of our close friends these days.

NICK: That’s definitely how we started out because we grew up in suburban New Jersey. When we’d play shows, it would kind of just be very different types of genres that didn’t really mesh with us that well. We kind of felt like people didn’t really get us that much, but we’d find these bands online and start talking. We used to base our tours just based off, like, “We want to go play with our friend who lives in Asheville,” or something like that.

SHANE: We hadn’t actually met yet, but we spoke on the internet.

Is that how you met Villagerrr?

SHANE: We’re familiar with each other from the internet, and then we officially met at South by Southwest. We knew about each other already, so we were just kind of like, “Oh, right,” and then it clicked.

I feel like every time a cool tour gets announced, Villagerrr is on the bill. I’m not sure how that happens but that’s great exposure for them.

NICK: I mean, they’re the sweetest people ever, and they make really good music. I think it’s just a sure bet that you’re going to have a good tour with them because I think people know that they’re really nice, and their music’s amazing.

You guys don’t live in the same city, or do you now?

NICK: We don’t. We were just together because we were rehearsing today. I live in Philly, and he lives in Brooklyn.

So, if somebody were to ask, “Where are you guys based?” Do you have an answer for that?

NICK: We say East Coast and then people are like, “That’s super vague.” We started off in North Jersey, Shane was in Boston for a while while I was in New York, now I’m in Philly. We go through the whole spiel. That’s why it’s just East Coast. Also, the run of Boston, New York, Philly, it’s not super far in the grand scheme of things. If you were to do that on the West Coast, it’d be a lot more driving.

If a club in Philly calls you and says, “We had an opener drop off the bill. Can you guys hop on a bill that is happening two nights from now?,” is that something that is easy for you to do?

SHANE: Totally. I feel like we could, actually. We love driving, so it doesn’t bother us. We would play a show in Boston, and then Nick would drive home to New York after it. We’re down for it.

NICK: We’ve gotten to a place where we have such flexible jobs that it would be easier if we lived in the same city, but we would probably try to make it work if it was something that we really wanted to do.

I watched a Laurel Canyon documentary a while back. One of the things that really blew my mind was that Mickey Dolenz from The Monkees was a neighbor of Frank Zappa’s and they were friends. Do you guys have any music friends like that that are in totally different genres than what you’re doing?

NICK: Sort of. The New Jersey connection is always there, so we’ll go see our friend’s metal band or whatever, but it’s more people doing it on a DIY scale. We’re on Julia’s War, so they definitely have some heavier bands that we’re friends with and things like that. Our bass player plays with this guy that we knew from New Jersey called Sammy Mellman, who we’re really big fans of, and we’ve played with him before, but it doesn’t really make sense in music.

NICK: It’s kind of barbershop-y in a way.

SHANE: A little jazzy, too.

NICK: Our old music teacher will tour with this metal band, Shai Hulud, a bunch. We’re still really close with him. Things like that. I wish that it was more interesting. I feel like we move around so much that it’s hard to be like, “This is a guy that I see every day,” or something.

When I was a kid, I lived in Connecticut. My mom’s aunt lived in New Jersey. I remember it felt like it was a full day’s drive to get there but, in reality, it was like an hour and a half drive.

NICK: I think touring got us used to that because our first tour ever, the farthest we went to was Burlington, and we thought that was the other side of the country or something. It seemed like such a big deal for us.

SHANE: Now we’re so used to it. When I was in Boston and would have to drive down to New York all the time just to practice with the guys, and do that four-hour drive every week. Now I’m like, anything under eight hours feels short but reasonable to me. That’s nice. Luckily, we really like to drive and be in the car, so…

Are you a music listener, podcast listener, audiobooks? How do you entertain yourself on a four-hour drive?

NICK: Mostly music. I feel like everyone in the touring party likes podcasts, and it just doesn’t click for me, and I’ll fall asleep so fast. So, we try to mostly just do music. We did an audiobook once, actually, it was about Laurel Canyon.

Oh, really?

NICK: I feel like we all had trouble focusing on it.

SHANE: Audiobooks and I guess podcasts are tricky, too, when you’re working with so many different people in one car, because everyone has to be paying attention, and you can’t keep going back. I think that’s why music is a lot easier, and I think we all just appreciate music more than all of those things.

NICK: A big thing is, we’re always in it together. I know a lot of bands will pull out a book and go in their own little world, or put headphones in. I feel like the experience is that we’re all together doing it, chatting and listening.

SHANE: We have a CD player in the van, which is so fun. Whenever we get to a city early before the show, we try to hit up a record store and add to the collection.

I just saw the band Goon and they spent time at a record store across the street from the venue they were playing that night. They have a CD player in their van and were buying cheap CDs to listen to for the rest of the tour.

SHANE: So cool. That’s why we made the switch, too, because CDs, hopefully it stays this way, you could get them for so cheap as opposed to vinyl which is pretty expensive. And on tour, it’s hard to carry around a lot of personal vinyl.

NICK: We’ve been into trading CDs with other bands, which is easier when they’re a lot cheaper. Sometimes we get attached to our CDs, and we’re like, “Oh, they would love this, but I don’t know if I want to give it away.” It’s a smaller scale of collecting.

I’ve got thousands of CDs that I haven’t listened to in decades. I’ll put together a package for you when you come to town. What kind of stuff are you looking for?

SHANE: We would love that, that’s so nice.

NICK: Our most coveted one is we have the alternate Revolver record, so it’s Beatles, alternate takes of songs on Revolver, and weird bootleg demos. I don’t even know where it came from; we found it in our mom’s house, but it’s on Pear Records instead of Apple Records. It’s a bootleg, but it’s so cool. There’s so many cool alt versions.

SHANE: We’re really into that band Prefab Sprout and their CDs are really hard to find, so we were able to find two of them that are really cool. A funny one that we all really enjoy is we have Daft Punk’s Discovery on CD.

NICK: It’s a very wide range. I feel like that’s why trading is so cool because we’re kind of interested in trying anything. A lot of the ones that we found are just bargain bin CDs with interesting covers, and then we’re like, “This is awesome,” we end up keeping them forever.

You recorded the album in eight days. Is that non-stop work or are you able to do things at a leisurely pace?

SHANE: That was very leisurely for us. That’s the longest we’ve been in the studio. Before that, we would do like 3 days. That felt a lot more rushed, and we needed to scramble.

NICK: But it was eight full, super long days of just doing stuff the whole time. I guess for this one we had a lot of ideas that we wanted to try out. Usually the 3-day ones, we prepare everything, it’s set in stone, so when we go into the studio, it’s just, “This is what we’re doing.” The 8 days, a lot of it was like, “I have this wacky idea, it could be terrible, let’s just try it out.” So it was eight intensive, pretty long days, but it was leisurely for us, by our standards.

SHANE: What I enjoyed about it, it gave us a lot more room to experiment and play around. We tracked a lot live, too, so it just kind of felt like playing and just jamming, which was really cool. Whereas in the past, when we’ve had fewer days in the studio, it’s been like, “Alright, we really need to get this take in and done, and be happy with it, because we’re running out of time.”

NICK: Also, you just have to book it out so far in advance that if we wanted to re-record it, we’d have to wait for them to be available again and stuff. And also, since we were flying to Chicago, we were like, “We need to make sure we have enough time,” because we’re not going to fly back out.

Henry from Slow Pulp produced it. Did he sprinkle any magic on the record, or was he more of a listener and providing feedback? What was his role, and how did you guys work with him?

NICK: We demoed everything, and then he would figure out what the best approach would be. He would suggest a lot of pedals, and we got to use his personal pedalboard, which really changed things for us because he’s got a lot of cool stuff. And sonically, his suggestions and things like that helped a lot.

SHANE: He just really got what we were going for. There wasn’t a lot of us needing to explain to him. We were really locked in with each other and understood what we were trying to achieve. We got along so well as people, so we had a lot of fun with him and felt so comfortable around him. We never felt worried about bringing an idea that might not work out or sound kind of weird. He was always encouraging, being like, “That sounds awesome, let’s give it a try.” If it didn’t work out, it didn’t work out. I felt like he created a really comfortable and fun environment for us to get to experiment a lot, which I think was really important for this album.

In terms of releasing singles and making videos, we live in a completely different world than the one I grew up in, with MTV and radio. Are videos just another way to get your name out there? What is the purpose of making music videos?

NICK: You need the content machine to keep going and stuff like that. But, I mean, we both have film backgrounds. To me, I just like having visual components to our music. It’s definitely a little bit of a grind because we live far away, and also, the rollout happened faster than we expected. We sent it to Julia’s War, and they’re like, “Do you want to release it in October?” and we’re like, “Yeah, I guess so.” So, it happened really fast. In that aspect, sometimes it is tough, but at the end of the day, I love having a visual piece with it. It’s always really fun to film. Our music video for “Cure,” when we were on the rooftop, that was one of the most fun days I’ve had in a while, where we kind of just drank a bunch of beer and played along through the song all day. It was cool.

I watched the Beatles documentary Get Back during the pandemic and it was pretty amazing to me that they had the foresight to film everything back during a time where it took real effort. Have you guys filmed stuff, given your backgrounds, so that someday when you’re as big as the Beatles, you can release a documentary about your early days?

NICK: I took a video camera on tour once, but it was mostly just me being in awe of all the bands that we played with, so it’s a lot of me filming bands that we’re playing with, but there is some stuff on tour in between. It’s on our YouTube channel. It’s called, like, “Happy New Year” or something on there. I remember there’s a clip where we thought it’d be a good idea to buy these peanut butter and jelly packs that come in one pack. I took a video of us opening it for the first time, and they were so disgusting. We were like, “We’re going to eat these so often,” and after the first two days, we’re like, “This is too gross to eat.” It’s like trying to make that and stuff. We should do that more, even just for our own personal memories.

I have some questions related to your song titles. The questions aren’t about the songs themselves or the lyrics but are, rather, inspired by the titles. There’s a song called “I Know Your Secret”. Do people come to you with their secrets? Are you trustworthy?

SHANE: Yes, I would say so.

NICK: I think I’m trustworthy, but also, I feel like I don’t forget things ever. We were practicing today, and our bass player was like, “I don’t even remember telling you all this stuff.” I would like to think that I’m trustworthy, that your secret’s safe with me.

SHANE: I feel like I’m really good at keeping a secret just because I get so anxious knowing that I have this secret. The idea of accidentally letting it slip terrifies me, so I feel like I will anxiously work hard to just not let it out.

There’s a song called “Cure”. This summer, I know people who went to Oasis and My Chemical Romance reunion tours. I had tickets for The Cure tour a few years ago but it was an outdoor show and on the day it happened, it was pouring rain. My wife and I didn’t want to sit in wet grass all day so we didn’t go. So, since The Cure is the band I’d still like to see the most on a reunion tour, and it’s the name of one of your songs, are there any bands you’d love to see on a reunion tour?

NICK: I think the one that we always talk about is The Kinks, because that’s our mom’s favorite band. We are huge fans, and I think that we’re always fantasizing, like, “It’d be so nice, we’d take our mom out to go see them.”

SHANE: I never thought Pavement would get back together. When they did, I bought tickets to see them two nights in a row, because I was like, “Never thought they would come back, and probably won’t stick around for long.” I was so glad that I did that; that was really cool. That was always my answer.

And they didn’t let you down?

SHANE: No, I loved it. I’m a huge Pavement fan, so I’m glad that I went two nights because they just have so many songs that I love, and they change up the setlist so much that it was worth it. No, I wasn’t let down at all. They were always kind of rough around the edges, so it gives them more slack to play all these years.

“Glare of the Beer Can”, the title makes me think of sitting on a porch in the summer and just hanging out and drinking beer. What is your kind of sort of perfect summer afternoon?

SHANE: I really love swimming in a body of water. I like the beach a lot, I really love a pond. So, like, hanging out by water and swimming. And probably drinking beer. Having some food, like a little picnic, is really, really nice.

NICK: My first thought was, like, I love to make a journey out of trying some kind of food. Maybe a little bit of a road trip where the end result is this really good restaurant that’s kind of under the radar and cheap but awesome. Stuff like that, I feel like I do a lot.

“Something to Prove”. Do you feel pressures in your music to prove something to either yourselves, to your parents, to your friends, to the label, or are you more just kind of chill about it, and where the road takes us, it takes us, and we’re just along for the ride?

SHANE: I would say proving it to myself is what resonates the most with me. Making a song that I find to be really good is so important to me. I feel like the window for me feeling that way about a song is so fleeting. I’ll make a song, be really satisfied with it, but then that feeling fades quickly, and then I’m always like, “I want to make another one.” So I feel like I am kind of hard on myself and always trying to prove to myself that I can write just a good song, or a song that I feel like is really strong and satisfying. I think that’s what keeps me doing it over, and wanting to keep making music because I’m always chasing that feeling that I could make something that I’m really proud of. But I just get sick of the song after a while, and then I’m just like, “I need to make another one now,” and I have a feeling it’s just going to constantly be that cycle.

NICK: I feel the same way. I don’t get sick of it super fast, but we put so much of our regular lives on hold to do music stuff, where it’s just like, “I need to prove to myself that this is worth doing, and that I’m still enjoying it and stuff.”

When you’re writing songs, do you care to be known more for lyrics and words, or the music, or is it the whole package? Is there one thing that you kind of spend more time focused on when you’re writing a song?

NICK: To me, it’s the whole package. I put as much effort into everything, or I think of it all as one. I think we put more emphasis on the music sometimes, because, I don’t know, it just sometimes feels like that’s what people hear first. But to me, a song’s not finished until I feel like I’ve perfected both aspects of it.

SHANE: For me, writing a really good melody is really important to me. That’s something that just sticks with me when I hear a song that I really, really like. It’s just a melody that will stick with you and get caught in your head, or just a memorable melody. I often feel like that’s the most challenging part about writing a song. It’s all really important.

You have a song called “Favorite.” I’m going to ask you to name some of your favorite things. What’s your favorite beer?

SHANE: I thought that’s what you were going to ask. I work in a brewery, so it’s hard for me to choose. I’m a little bit of a beer nerd. I really like a Mexican Pilsner a lot. I think that would be my go-to, like a Modelo or a Pacifico.

NICK: I’m totally the same. I think I’m less of a beer nerd. A lot of times, I’ll just get whatever anyone else is getting, or since he’s a beer nerd, I’ll just be like, “Yep, whatever he got.” But if I’m buying a six-pack, I’ll probably get Modelo because I feel like it’s easy, it’s a people pleaser.

Favorite restaurant?

NICK: There’s this Peruvian restaurant that was like two or three towns over from where we grew up that we used to go to all the time called Santa Barbara, where it’s just kind of like a little hole in the wall. A lot of times when I visit my mom, and she’s like, especially on my birthday or something, she’s like, “Let’s go out someplace nice.” I always pick that place, and she’s just like, “I want to take you out someplace,” but you can’t beat Santa Barbara, and I’ve been to other Peruvian restaurants trying to chase that high, and nothing is as good as that spot. It’s so good.

SHANE: It’s so hard for me to choose a favorite. We love food so much, so it’s hard to choose.

Please tell me that when you tour, you don’t eat at McDonald’s. Please tell me you try to find somewhere different or unique to eat.

NICK: Sometimes we’ll tour with bands that just kind of want to do fast food, and we’re like, “No, this is half of the reason why we tour.”

SHANE: One, we don’t eat at McDonald’s on tour because it sucks. And two, it’s just going to make us feel so bad, and there’s already feeling so bad with the lack of sleep. We love trying regional foods. That’s a fun thing about traveling.

Shane, do you have a favorite restaurant?

SHANE: I guess I’ll say there’s this restaurant that we really like called Rolo’s in Ridgewood, Queens. We just went there for our mom’s birthday; that’s really good. It’s kind of a trendy restaurant right now, but it’s very good.

NICK: It’s super expensive. Luckily, our mom really likes it, so when she comes to visit Shane, it’s always our only time to go to Rolo’s.

Favorite movie and/or TV show?

NICK: We are really big fans of The Simpsons. It’s kind of hard to think of anything else that we both agree on.

SHANE: For a movie, there’s this Taiwanese movie that Nick and I both love called Yi Yi. That’s really, really good. I got to see it in theaters for the first time. It was screening here a couple of weeks ago, and it reminded me that it is, I think, my favorite movie.

Favorite band?

SHANE: The Beatles, for sure.

NICK: That’s definitely our favorite that we could definitely agree on.

SHANE: I think that is just my favorite. It’s a boring answer, but I don’t like anyone else as much as The Beatles.

Favorite car that you’ve owned?

NICK: Probably the Toyota Sienna that our Joyer band account owns. We’ve had so much history with it at this point, and it serves us well.

Do you have a favorite sports team?

SHANE: This is kind of random, but I’ve been a huge Baltimore Ravens fan since I was like 10. That’s the only team that I really, really follow. I really love them.

NICK: I’m not a sports guy, but I’ll say that to represent the family.

“At the Movies”. Are you regular moviegoers? Do you still go out to movies all the time?

NICK: Yeah, since I moved to Philly and I have a car, I’ve been trying to go, and I’ll just see trash. I don’t even care. Just the event of going to the movies and dropping more money than you need to on popcorn and stuff. Luckily, my girlfriend’s really into it, so we do it a lot.

SHANE: It’s really comforting. Yeah, I guess it does remind me of childhood. Ever since I moved to New York, there are so many amazing theaters here.

NICK: Thinking back, our dad would, when he was responsible for watching us if our mom was working late or something, we would just go to the movies. We would go to the movies like once or twice a week. We’ve seen so many movies from the early 2000s because that was the time when we were just going all the time.

“Tests”. What kind of students were you? Were you somebody who spent a week getting ready, making notes, or were you a last-minute student, or did you just not study at all and just go in cold on tests?

SHANE: I was an annoyingly good student. I always just tried really, really hard, would get upset at getting, like, B+‘s, and definitely wasn’t a procrastinator.

NICK: I really liked to learn, but I didn’t like to study, so I feel like I was in the B range. Since he’s my brother, I feel like he’d always make me look bad, but I think I was a decent student. I would always really pay attention, but when I got home, it was about doing other stuff.

“Tell Me.” Tell me the story that you pull out of your back pocket when you’re introduced to new people.

NICK: I feel like it’s more of a fun fact, but we both worked at Kidz Bop at different times, and I feel like people are always like, “Whoa, I can’t even imagine the ins and outs of Kidz Bop and stuff like that,” so that’s always a good conversation starter.

So what does that mean, you worked at Kidz Bop?

NICK: I worked, technically, I worked in the video department at the label that Kidz Bop was signed to. My experience with Kidz Bop would be working on set for their ads and YouTube videos and stuff, doing a little bit of editing or helping with promo. But Shane actually worked for the Kidz Bop band.

SHANE: I interned there one summer, and I edited a lot of their YouTube videos and would be on shoots with the kids, where I was mostly in charge of keeping them all together. We did a flash mob in Times Square, and there were like 20 of them that I had to make sure they didn’t run off into the city. It was pretty stressful. I didn’t really enjoy it, but it’s funny to talk about.

Not related to any song titles, but because you both have lived in New York, any famous people encounters?

NICK: When I was in college, I dormed in the Lower East Side. I would see a bunch of kind of not super big celebrities, but people I recognize, but the coolest one was, I saw Tony Hawk and his whole family. They all had skateboards with them, it was really cute.

Closing out the interview, is there a song, album or artist that takes you back to something specific in your life?

SHANE: Growing up, one of our dad’s favorite artists was Captain Beefheart. I remember hating it and being so annoyed by it, and just thinking it was so unpleasant to listen to. I remember we were in Florida on a trip somewhere, and had a rental car, and that was the CD that he brought, and he knew that it annoyed us, so he’d keep it on. I just had such a terrible association to it. But then, as an adult, he’s become one of both of our favorite artists, and that record specifically, it was Safe as Milk, it’s just one of our favorite records. So it’s so funny. I can kind of look back on it and laugh at feeling really annoyed by it, but it’s really interesting to now have it finally click with me.

NICK: I remember texting you, being like, “I’m listening to Safe as Milk willingly right now,” and you being like, “I can’t listen to that.”

I think mine is more recent. There’s a song called “It’s Not What You Do, It’s You” by Spooky Ruben. We had been a fan of his music for a long time, but on our first really kind of substantial tour, where we were gone for multiple weeks and stuff, that specific song, I think we just got so into. I just remember playing it over and over again, and our friend sundots joined the tour halfway through, and we were playing it for him, and he’s like, “I need to hear that song again, I’m craving it.” We had been on tours before, but this was our first real tour, and that song was the soundtrack of it.

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Joyer 2025 Tour Dates

10/25 – Brooklyn, NY – Market Hotel
10/27 – Washington, D.C. – DC9
10/28 – Asheville, NC – Static Age
10/30 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves &
10/31 – Austin, TX – Mohawk &
11/3 – Nashville, TN – DRKMTTR &
11/4 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5 &
11/5 – Durham, NC – Rubies on Five Points
12/10 – Lakewood, OH – Mahalls %
12/11 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups %
12/12 – Chicago, IL – Schubas Tavern %
12/13 – Milwaukee, WI – X-Ray Arcade %
12/14 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry %
12/16 – Oklahoma City, OK – Resonant Head %
12/17 – Kansas City, MO – Farewell
12/19 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Government Center

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