News
September 17, 2021
Joy Thieves interview on Sounds and Shadows!
Chris Connelly, Gordon Young, and I sat down with Sounds and Shadows to talk about a whole slew of topics: collaborative production across continents, time signatures outside 4/4, analog vs digital guitar recording, Hawkwind, politics in art done effectively and the wonders of East German Banjo!
September 17, 2021
Nemesis by The Joy Thieves (feat. Chris Connelly) is out today!
After spending the last year tirelessly working on our album American Parasite, The Thieves were in the mood to do something lighthearted, spontaneous and fun. And because we have a tendency to do whatever the hell we want to do, whenever the hell we want to do it...that's exactly what we did! Our cover of Shriekback's classic song, Nemesis, is out today on Armalyte Industries...and it's ABSOLUTELY FREE!
September 16, 2021
The Monday Machine's 3rd album, Blue Sky Morning, is out now!
The Monday Machine is back with our third full-length album of original music...check it out here!
September 9, 2021
The Joy Thieves remix Blue Eyed Christ (feat. En Esch & Mea Fisher)!
I am honored to have been asked to remix "World On Fire" by Blue Eyed Christ (feat. En Esch from KMFDM & PIG, and Mea Fisher from Lords of Acid)!
Release date is September 24, 2021, but pre-orders are available now on Bandcamp. Remix artists include: Dogtablet, Red Lokust, Sapphira Vee, Steven Olaf, Black Asteroid, and more!
September 3, 2021
The Joy Thieves on "Music of Chicago" podcast!
The Joy Thieves were honored to be chosen to supply the kick off song for James VanOsdol's newest podcast endeavor, "Music of Chicago"!
September 3, 2021
"Pain Killer" by PIG is out now!
Pain Killer by PIG is out today on Armalyte Industries, and The Joy Thieves contributed one of the mixes. There are only a handful left, so if you want one, you better do it NOW!
20 remixes on CD with a download card signed by Raymond. Remix artists include: COLD CAVE, Chris Vrenna, Die Krupps, I Ya Toyah, KMFDM v PIG, ESA, Front Line Assembly, Jagz Kooner, Curse Mackey, The Joy Thieves, REVillusion, Jim Davies, Terminal, Jay Android, Drownd, PIG, Matt Hart, Imperative Reaction, and Ghostfeeder!
September 2, 2021
Interview on Car Con Carne
I had the chance to sit down with Chicago broadcasting legend James VanOsdol to talk about The Joy Thieves, and American Parasite!
September 1, 2021
Blindcopy's "Permanent Collection" is now available!
"Permanent Collection" by Blindcopy is now available! This song features Chris Connelly, Karen Righeimer and Ivan Russia from Bellhead, JD Reager, and myself on drums and guitars!
August 6, 2021
The Joy Thieves featured on upcoming remix album by PIG!
"Pain Killer," a remix CD of PIG's album "Pain Is God," is available to pre-order at pigindustries.bandcamp.com!
The CD comes in a foil screen slip case, with 14 tracks and 6 additions on the signed download card (which includes all 20 tracks). The Joy Thieves are honored to be among an illustrious list of remixers that includes Cold Cave, Chris Vrenna, Die Krupps, I Ya Toyah, KMFDM vs. PIG, ESA, Front Line Assembly, Curse Mackey, REVillusion, Jim Davies, Drownd, and more!
"Pain Killer" releases September 3.
August 2, 2021
The "Armalyte XX" compilation is available for free today!
The Joy Thieves' label, Armalyte Industries, just celebrated their 20th anniversary. So, to celebrate they released the brand new "Armalyte XX" compilation, featuring new, exclusive and unreleased music from many of their artists. The Joy Thieves contributed 2 exclusive tracks: "Badland(er) (The Blowtorch Blues Remix), which is a mashup of "The Badlander" and PIG's song "Badland"...and "Hell and Back (Ten Feet Tall Remix)" by Skatenigs.
The album is available for FREE at the link below!