New Year, New Album, New Lineup!

Well, it's been about a year since I've updated this for a lot of reasons and I'll fill you in on why. My Dad passed away last March from a long battle with cancer. I did a lot of soul searching and just didn't feel like doing anything but writing and recording music by myself with Neil Young producing, I went into hiding of sorts. In the last year, I've written/recorded 35 songs for MTV's Ridiculousness/Fantasy Factory to be used as background music. I used all live instruments and played them all. It was perfect timing to have such a large amount of songs to keep my mind off losing my Dad. I put The Depressives on ice after letting our bass player go and just took time off of performing. I just focused on my ghost writing work. Once I wrapped up those songs, I got back to work on The Depressives new record titled "Cold Pizza and Warm Beer." Chipping away at writing and tracking a few hours at a time when Neil, Thor and I could get into our studio until we completed tracking enough for a record. In the end we settled on the best 17 songs to use. We'll be sending the record off to Mike Wells Mastering in a few weeks and it will be pressed on vinyl LP via Self Destructo/Reach Around Records in early summer. New-ish music video! We made this music video a year ago, but I never posted it on here. See above... I just didn't feel like doing anything but locking myself in my recording studio to ghost write to keep my mind of pops, bla bla bla. Anyhow, here's a video for Choose My Fate which was on the Seven Inches split 7" with The Hip Priests (released on Self Destructo/Reach Around Records.) It's also on our new LP we're about to release. Santa Stole My Whiskey Music Video! Neil and I also made a music video for a solo Christmas song I recorded called "Santa Stole My Whiskey." Neil plays Santa, I'm playing everything else. Our friend Alan shot the thing and here it is in February, haha.

We've added a new member! Super producer Neil Young has joined The Depressives. Neil brings a lot of experience to the table and can outplay me on bass, so it was an easy decision. He's been our exclusive producer for 3 years, we've done around 75 songs for Dickhouse Productions together and two Depressives records, so it was a natural progression. We always considered him, "the 4th Depressive" anyhow, now he's a solid "3rd Depressive." Welcome Neil! Wah-BAM used on Fantasy Factory! Although they commission me to write songs for their shows, they occasionally slip in my released tracks. Here's a screen grab from when they played Wah-BAM off our last LP from 2013 Primitive Sounds for a Modern World.

Booking shows again! New album done, full band again, what do you do now? Book some shows, ya' dingus! We're supporting 80's LA Punk Legends MAD PARADE Saturday April 25th at Johnny V's in San Jose. We've got an even bigger show booked, but we're not allowed to announce it yet. Stay tuned! I'll also leak the new record when I get the masters back.

More music on ESPN.com - Santa Cruz Skateboards

Santa Cruz turns 40 and here's a profile of how it all started. They used 2 Jonny Manak solo track and a Depressives track. Too cool! I grew up idolizing this brand, I'm so honored to provide the sound track to their history! Neat!

Another ESPN.com song placement

Santa Cruz Skateboards turns 40 and ESPN.com put together this cool video. I have a song that kicks in at the 1:10 mark. SKATE AND ROCK!!!

Check out our promo video for our split 7". Filmed live in Los Angeles!

Black Label and ESPN.com used two of our songs in this video!

Such an honor to have our music in a retrospective of my favorite skateboard company of all time, BLACK LABEL! John Lucero is a true original and I've always respected what he's done for skateboarding and pop culture. Here's to 25 years of BLACK LABEL!

NEW SPLIT 7" WITH UK'S THE HIP PRIESTS OUT NOW!

It's finally here! The new split 7" titled "SEVEN INCHES" is available now with a limited edition tee shirt at the TURBOJUGEND ONLINE STORE. Side one features our song "Choose My Fate" and side two features "Saints of Excess" by The HIP PRIESTS from the UK. Also includes a free MP3 download of both tracks! Each vinyl comes on a different splatter combo, no two records a re the same. Buy them all, trade them with your friends!

LOST TAPES RELEASE! "MOONAGE ODDITY" - Two Bowie Covers from 2007 are NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE!

We recorded a pair of David Bowie covers (Space Oddity and Moonage Daydream) for 2007's "1.21 Jiggawatts" but never used them. The idea was simple, one cover for the LP, one cover for the CD. Life happened and that record never came out physically, only digitally. At that time, we decided to put these covers aside until the physical release. It's been 6 years, fuck it, lets share these tracks with the world. So here you go, I present to you a digital single called "Moonage Oddity." You can stream them for free on spotify here. If you're super neat-o and want to help us make MORE music, you can BUY these two tracks on itunes by clicking the album artwork. This ripping artwork was drawn by the ever so infamous Munguni!