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I’m here to rock.

One more run to close out 2026 ✌️

Once in a lifetime opportunity ✨

Sold out show at Radio City Music Hall tonight 👯‍♀️👯‍♀️✨

Setting up yesterday at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, OH. “America’s Longest Continually Running Rock Club” ✌️

We had a great poster last night in Carrboro, NC. Designed and printed by the legendary Skillet Gilmore ✨

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/the-format-ohana-festival-new-album-boycott-heaven-1235633125/

My key world 💅

https://www.spinmagazine.com/2026/09/the-format-return-to-speak-their-truth-on-latest-single/

Ohana 🍊

Just landed in Orange County, CA. So stoked to play with Pearl Jam, Pixies and Rilo Kiley this weekend! ✨🍊

Great shot in Chicago by Bryan Lasky ✨

Riot Fest in Chicago today

Just wrapped up rehearsals in Chicago. Tour starts Friday in Minneapolis at First Ave ✨

Lol

Throwback Thursday. Our hometown show in Phoenix last year at the Madhouse on McDowell 🤠

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdChxZbNOma/

https://fountain.fm/episode/LbwMYqauDa0FV8DZyj09

Growing bananas in the desert 🌵🍌

This is such a horrific piece of history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders

Snoopy exhibit in Chelsea today ✨

Is it worth starting a new node after getting wiped on

? 🤔

At Hinterland ✨

Put in a solid ~20 today #proofofwalk

Still can’t believe we’re playing Hollywood Bowl 🤯

3 year streak #proofofwalk

Minneapolis & DC are next up for Saturdays In The Park! Come meet other Format fans, learn about local organizations, make buttons, and get involved with important work in your community. These events are free and all ages.

If you plan on attending, RSVP via the link on saturdaysinthepark.com. Stay up to date on all things Saturdays In The Park here on Instagram or on our new site.

See you at the park!

The Bar Is Set So Low is now available on all streaming services. 100% of proceeds will be distributed to:

Immigrant Rapid Response Immigrant Defense Network Advocates For Immigrants Rights Latino Memphis

You can also still download the song on Bandcamp, or pick up a CD or long sleeve from our merch store.

While there’s still a lot of dark in this world, we know that music helps to spread light. We hope you listen, donate, or help your communities in whatever ways you can.

And as always - FUCK ICE.

https://tidal.com/track/541482866/u

Two weeks ago I walked back into The Rave for the first time in about twenty years.

Read: Clairaudience, and the Night We Went Looking for Buddy's Ghost From The Vault.

https://publicrecord.online/post/clairaudience-buddys-ghost-public-record

What I learned later is that those four words are doing an enormous amount of work. Words that big can hold anything. That's why they picked them. https://open.substack.com/pub/sammeans/p/words-that-big-can-hold-anything?r=24i91&utm_medium=ios

Hello from Hinterland Festival in St. Charles, IA 🌽

This is going to be amazing. Never thought I’d have the opportunity to play The Bowl!

Got The Rave tonight. One of my absolute all time fav venues.

Great show in the park today!

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Back on tour this week. First stop: Milwaukee double header on Saturday with a free show in the park, followed by a sold out unplugged set at one of my favorite venues, The Rave ✌️👻✨

Excellent work on this

Public Record now supports Lightning tips. Love this

feature to pay transactions with cash balances. Super helpful for the avg user ✨

Back from service 🍊✨

Commercial for Hello Merch ✨

An open letter.

“Twenty years later, artists are more or less forced to give their music away. Except it's the streaming platforms doing the giving, and they've stripped all value along the way. Those direct lines run through an algorithm now. Community has been rebranded "engagement." Corporations learned the same lessons we learned, but they’ve used them for evil, and forced themselves between bands and their fans. “ Read more.. https://publicrecord.online/post/the-format-on-20-years-of-dog-problems

Got to see Jimmy Eat World celebrate Bleed American’s 25th anniversary at Brooklyn Paramount tonight ✨

ViVA MUh CensOrShiP ReSiStaNt LLC.

Great interview with

https://publicrecord.online/post/sean-lennon-discusses-les-claypool-yoko-ono-and-ai

New paint job, old guitar.

Posting content for nostr bots.

End It tonight in Brooklyn ✨

Good to see nostr becoming even more weird and alienating 🙃

In other news.. 2 major walking milestones for me this month. Did 75k steps/35 miles around the perimeter of Manhattan on May 2nd, and yesterday I hit my 1,000th consecutive day of 10k steps or more! #proofofwalk #psychopath

Picked this up today 🫣😍

Radio City Music Hall October 9th 💅💅💅💅💅 https://v.nostr.build/wr796SEBr7vxKV5l.mov

We’ll be heading out on tour this Fall and bringing along very special guest The Get Up Kids. We’ll be hitting some states we didn’t get to hit on the Spring leg of the Boycott Heaven tour (including Florida).

Presale begins tomorrow Wednesday April 8 at 12pm local time, and tickets are on sale Friday April 10 at 12pm local time. The presale code will be sent out to our text & newsletter subscribers so make sure you are signed up! See you on the road.

This tour has been incredible, but playing to a sold out crowd at the Ryman in Nashville the other night was particularly special ✨

“Depressed” music video just dropped

Last night in Boston, MA

P.S.

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Back in December, we headed out on the road for some select acoustic shows. While it was originally just supposed to be the two of us performing acoustic, we decided last minute to invite the whole band out for these sets. And this time, we're bringing the band back out wih us for these unplugged performances.

If you’re like me, every time something horrific happens in this world, you’re faced with an overwhelming urge to help… somehow.

I follow a lot of creative people online, and I’m always inspired by the art they create in times of trouble. I share their graphics. I buy the t-shirt benefiting the cause. I give money when and where I can. It’s all so inspiring in the moment when people come together. You feel this sense of hope, as if maybe this time enough of us are connecting with what’s really going on to bring meaningful change. Then a few weeks go by. Predictably, another horrible thing happens, but it’s buried in the news by some typical nonsense, and eventually life returns to normal.

As I sit here today, I’m wondering what “normal” could even be anymore. When I reflect on the world around me, on what I’ve seen in the last 10 years alone, it’s almost impossible to comprehend how we’ve ended up here.

Of course, there’s an explanation for it all. There are horrible people out there taking direct action every day to suck the life out of every good thing this world has to offer, and we’re allowing them. Because what other choice do we have? If you ponder that question long enough, it starts to feel overwhelming.

Nate and I were in the Seattle airport a few weeks back, getting steps in while we waited for a delayed flight to board. We were in the middle of playing a handful of small shows in record stores across the country to celebrate our album release. Our excitement over accomplishing something 20 years in the making was overshadowed by yet another horrific event. A few days prior, Alex Pretti was shot in cold blood on the streets of Minneapolis, simply for stepping in to help a fellow member of the community who had been pushed to the ground by some goon. Renee Good a couple weeks before that, and many others before her. That morning, we were gearing up to perform a show for Stinkweeds Records in our hometown, and Nate suggested we play a Boycott Heaven B-side, “The Bar Is Set So Low,” as an opportunity to acknowledge what had happened earlier in the day. We continued to close each set with that song the rest of the week, and as we walked through the airport that day, the question came up: What more can we do?

It’s hard to know where to start, but we do have to start somewhere. Actions, no matter how small, can accumulate over time and amount to something great. So, with that in mind, we’ve decided to take our first step. With the help of some friends, we’re creating what we’re calling “Saturdays In The Park,” which will give us an opportunity to create a space for people to gather, have discussions, hear a little music along the way, and hopefully leave with new information from people in the community doing important work, and with inspiration to take additional steps in their own lives.

Most of us are inherently good. I really believe that. And when good people in communities get together in person to take action against something bad, there’s a feeling there that can’t be produced artificially. It’s the soul of who we are. Harnessing that energy is the only chance we have to change course. It feels pretty heavy, but we have a responsibility to try harder.

See you in the park ✌️

https://www.theformat.com/saturdaysinthepark

Descendents in Anaheim tonight 😍

Looking forward to being on the road again soon.

If you have SiriusXM, check us out on Tom Petty Radio ✌️ http://instagram.com/reels/DU3ytP4Eiem/

Great conversation with Larry Fitzmaurice https://last-donut-of-the-night.ghost.io/the-format-on-reuniting-surviving-the-pandemic-and-hoping-for-the-best/

1999 Midnight Wine 🍷✨

Let’s go ✌️

From Easy Street in Seattle 🌲✨

Don & Mary

Back at it ✨

Band portrait by Garbage Cartoons

https://www.theaquarian.com/2026/02/09/bringing-the-format-back-to-life/

100% of the proceeds from "The Bar Is Set So Low" will be distributed to Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, Immigrant Defense Network, Advocates for Immigrant Rights, and Latino Memphis. https://theformat.bandcamp.com/track/the-bar-is-set-so-low

Closed out the week with 2 sold out sets at Rough Trade in NYC ✨

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Some shots from Jimmy Kimmel the other night ✨

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Self awareness at its finest.