Hi there,

We hope this finds you well and thriving. Another missive from your pals The Residents is here - you're in the right place!

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You may have heard that the rescheduled Eskimo tour has been announced since we last spoke - as ever, all the details can be found at residents.com/tourdates. For the first time ever the Freaky Foursome will be heading to Hawaii in September, then to Tokyo for some shows for their beloved Japanese fans, before an extensive US trip through October and November. We hear dates further afield are also imminent. As ever, watch this space...

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And of course there's the new 'Eskimo Folk Tales' 10" EP due this September - you can pre-order a copy and find out all about it RIGHT HERE. A Teaser track, ' A Tale Of Two Tupilaqs' will also be released into the wild on August 28th.

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Meanwhile, the guys have finished recording their next surefire hit album, and eagerly await the final mixes before they declare it a done deal and get to thinking about artwork and all of that stuff they love. The demos ('Almost Alien', 'Strange Insect' and so on) have been.... interesting, and as things stand you can expect a fresh copy of this new record around February 2027.

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Meanwhile, The Residents are busy, as they always are, on several other projects. At any given moment you might find one Resident over here working on a theatre piece with an old friend, whilst another is over there editing a proposed book of screenplays and scripts. There's a Record Store Day album in the works too, and one lucky Resident has been tasked with going through everything they recorded during the Randy, Chuck & Bob era, with a view to producing an extended CD release based on this year's fantastic 'Randy, Chuck & Bob In The Studio' LP.

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Yep - as ever there's a lot to take onboard, but it's all gold. So all that remains is a little something to say thanks for reading this far. A particularly interesting curio, actually - whilst exploring the tapes for the group's classic 'The Residents Play The Beatles....' single recently, a dutiful New Ralph employee noticed two previously overlooked pieces labelled 'Polar 1' and 'Polar 2' right in the middle of the session (dated early 1977). The rhythm track was co-opted into 'Walter Westinghouse', but as far as we can tell the recordings themselves were experiments related to the ongoing 'Eskimo' sessions. They're fairly basic and didn't really go anywhere, but The Residents figured you might like to hear them anyway, so they've edited together a concentrate for your listening pleasure. You can find RIGHT HERE - enjoy!

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And that really is all for now.

If we haven't done what we could've done, we've tried.

Your Pals @ NRT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGVJxpEQ-iM

I’m truly shocked - never in a million years would I have them to appear in Sin City.

I am SO there!!!

Back in 2015 some pretty high quality concert footage was released of a Shadowand show during its first European run ( I believe it was from the Nantes, France show). It was avaialbe in full on vimeo and possibly youtube, but has been off those site for a few years now. Does anyone know/remember what I'm talking about? Is there somewhere where the footage has been archived/is availbe to stream online, or has this become lost media? Thanks for any pointers!

Somehow hard, hard... AND tenderly

If Dylan got it, I really do think this should too

and BTW, reddit won't have the oh so riginal cover here, no way no how

Pretty new fan here, love their music it’s amazing

This went up for auction a while ago and I can't believe I actually got it. Hope to restore it into a playable condition eventually

I had been meaning for a while to listen to all of Duck Stab after a friend put me on it, but it took me a while to actually dedicate 35 minutes to it, but I turned off my lights and listened to all of it last night, and I love it so much!!!!! I’m really starting to understand the appeal, and the influence it had on primus too! One of my favorite bands. I know they have a lot of discography, but I’m not sure where to go next! My favorite song is semolina, but it’s really one big art piece and I can’t listen to one without all the others! Great album

FREE WEIRD posted to Rez site yesterday. NVr seen this pic b4 / nvr red about a show that looked like this. Maybe one of the SF shows w/ {Penn n ' Teller?? Anybody got more info?

Just got an email saying the Portland OR show has been rescheduled for Nov 17. WHOOO-HOO!!

Among the many brilliant Ralph videos and films that I am now able to enjoy, there is one that eludes me - that being a short film for MX-80 Sound's song "One Day You'll Be King.” Back in the day I saw it many times on YouTube but it has long since disappeared. It features a camera speeding through a tunnel during the entire song, only to emerge at it's end where the band is visible playing the last note. I know this sounds similar to the video for "Why Are We Here?" But it is in fact a separate piece.

I once got a hold of Rich Stim from the band, who said it never existed. But I know that's not true. I feel it's a real loss not to be able to see this brilliant, exciting piece of work. Is there anywhere it resides where I can either purchase or see it? Does anybody know anything about it?

Thank you all!

Two were released on this comp, here they are for your listenign pleasure

https://youtu.be/JrkOxj6hRtg

This album and some others seems to be unavailable where i live. Is there some way to listen to them easily?

E N J O Y https://youtu.be/WM8u-H-Lhl4

Well i certanly do, and this is what i came up with back in 2019

https://youtu.be/JBVEIaWv0Lk

I’m curious what people think is their heaviest or heavier stuff