Ratboys

last month

We found Julia from Ratboys backstage before their show at @urbanloungeslc and had her play a game of “Would You Rather” with iconic albums from our record store! Signed Ratboys drop 🪑🌳 Available in-store first on Saturday, April 25th at noon. Extras go online at shop.3hive.com on Sunday, April 26th at noon MT. Limit one of each title per person. We will update this post to show when it has sold out. ❌ = sold out. ☑️ = in stock still. Singin’ To An Empty Chair 2xLP (Black) // $33 We love @ratboysband and @newwestrecords ! #streetinterviews #musicinterviews #musictaste #topalbums #wouldyourather

last month

a very belated but grateful THANK YOU to @tapeopmag for featuring us in their latest issue 💛💛💛💛 we first discovered Tape Op when we were recording The Window out at @hallofjusticerecordingstudio in Seattle.. I remember going to the bathroom at some point during the first day, innocuously thumbing through a stack of magazines, and becoming completely engrossed in record time (🥁 also sorry to everyone I kept waiting lol).. it was such a thrill to realize that an independent publication like this, focused on a unique niche I care so much about (ie the process of making records), had not only existed for a long time but was still thriving.. what a fuckin excellent discovery and a gift to us all!! from that day forward all of us in the band became subscribers, and being featured in Tape Op became one of our collective bucket list items. so it’s surreal to see our names & stories there now, along with some lovely film photos shot by @moochiez during the STAEC sessions 💛 if you’re at all interested in recording and/or how records get made, from anywhere along the spectrum of the technical nitty gritty to intangible alchemy, I highly recommend you pick up an issue & see what I mean thanks again John & Larry! 💛💛💛

2 months ago

closing out this six-week run in our hometown tonight, with a sold out show at @thevicchicago ❤️‍🔥🐀❤️‍🔥 playin with our dear pals in @free__range who hit the stage at 7:30pm! also it’s Andy’s birthday today @red__pk !! give it up for them! last piece of excellent news is that @thebirdmachine drew up & screen-printed a killer poster for the show tonight- these are limited to 100 qty, we’ll have them for sale at the merch table thanks so much to everyone who made it out to a gig during this tour- we srsly can’t say it enough! okay see ya in the Vic pit ❤️‍🔥🐀❤️‍🔥 📸 by Ryan Garbarino

2 months ago

got one week of shows left to go on this west coast leg of tour 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 and let me tell ya, yall, our hearts are exploding with gratitude. srsly. ^one happy tears face for each of us rats on this run. we couldn’t have asked for better shows, a better audience, better weather, or better memories made during the past 3 weeks. we’re all feeling extremely fortunate to get to play music in the world these days, and not just any music but these new songs that we care so much about, and not just any world but this beautiful flawed expansive mysterious world that we call home. we’ll never take it for granted! excited to finish strong this week in Denver (almost sold out), Omaha (not almost sold out, come hang!), Minneapolis (sold out), Madison (sold out), and Chicago (sold out. fuck yah). please enjoy this photo dump as our way of saying THANK YOU for comin to the gigs!! see you soon 🥲🫡

2 months ago

Catching up with @ratboysband before their show in LA last week! Their new record ‘Singin’ to an Empty Chair’ is already a top contender for our 2026 AOTY. If you need more jangly, alt-country, melodic guitar twang in your life (you do), make sure to give it a listen 🐀

2 months ago

🐀🐀🐀Rodents of unusual size in Studio 1A!🐁🐁🐁 Chicago’s @ratboysband visited us at KUTX while rolling through town on their "When the Sun Explodes" tour. While here, the band treated us to “What’s Right?” off their brand-new album, "Singin’ to an Empty Chair." Edit by @lorianne.jpg

2 months ago

BOOK RATS, UNITE! 🤩 Welcome to a *special* episode of 𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞 with Julia from @ratboysband, who we were lucky to catch while on TOUR for their new album: Singin’ To An Empty Chair !! 🐀🤘🎸 Thank you Julia for these impeccable book recs, and to our friends @strandbookstore for hosting us in the rare book room 😍 #pagebreak #bookstore #ratboys #bookrecommendations #nyc

4 months ago

our new record “Singin’ to an Empty Chair” is out today 💚🪑💚 it’s wild to think that exactly one year ago we were holed up in the cabin on a WINDY day, working on Strange Love, recording the vocals for At Peace in the Hundred Acre Wood, making frozen pizzas, and watching Kids in the Hall. and now today, we get to share the whole thing with you.. this is bar none the proudest that we’ve ever felt about something that we’ve made together, and it’s frankly an honor to be able to make art about love and connection and healing at a time when the world feels so fractured. we don’t take it for granted!! we can’t say thanks enough to you for pressing play if you so choose, and we’re just so stinkin happy to have this album out in the world THANK YOU to the one and only Christopher Walla for the trust, the open-hearted collaboration, the wonder, the joy, and for seeing and hearing exactly who we are (and inviting us to see/hear you right back). also this record wouldn’t exist without @taylorhales @electricalaudio @chrisshawmix @heba_kadry @rosecrud @tomconrad @newwestrecords THANK YOU for everything 💚🪑💚 film photos from the recording sessions by @moochiez & @aka_jupiter

7 months ago

our new album “Singin’ to an Empty Chair” is coming out February 6, 2026 on @newwestrecords 💚🪑💚 this album took shape over the course of 2024, and then, this past winter, we reunited with our hero and dear friend Chris Walla to produce the album together across the Midwest, specifically in a rural Wisconsin cabin, at the legendary @electricalaudio in Chicago, and at Rosebud Studio up in Evanston, IL over the course of four weeks we made this record, which clocks in at 55 minutes, and not a second feels wasted. this record feels like the most complete, living thing that we’ve ever made, and the songs feel the most personal to me (Julia). there’s an overarching goal that ties everything together: to bridge the gap across an estranged relationship, to provide an update on what life is like in the midst of great absence. I feel like we achieved that with these songs, and we can’t wait for you to hear them all for now, we have a new song out today, called “Anywhere” - this song was inspired by Dave’s family dog, Toffik, who loses his mind a little bit whenever Dave’s mom leaves the room the music video was directed by @bobbybutterscotch & stars our pal @rabi.rocknroll as a man who’s obsessed with his goldfish (aren’t we all?) you can check it out, pre-order the new record, and grab a ticket to a gig rn at the link in our bio! LFG! can’t wait to share more soon- in the meantime, thanks very much for listening & for being here 💚🪑💚 “Singin’ to an Empty Chair” co-produced by Ratboys and Chris Walla engineered by @taylorhales mixed by @chrisshawmix and Chris Walla mastered by @heba_kadry album cover and layout by @moochiez 💚🪑💚

8 months ago

all headline tour dates are on sale now!! 🌘🏔️⚡️🪐💫 When the Sun Explodes 2026! can’t wait to rip the gigs w/ @florrymusicband @villagerrrrrrrr & @free__range head to the link in our bio to grab tix tour poster by @moochiez see you out there 👋📡