Tyson Motsenbocker

Tyson knocked me up!!!!!!!! Baby Mots coming Summer 2026 ✨🥹💛

Here is some good stuff for u guys.

The full music video for I WILL is out now. We filmed the video at the album release at the American Legion, which was one of my favorite nights of music ever. People flew in from all over the country - Texas and Oklahoma and New York and Washington, all to pack into a tiny bar in Encinitas and celebrate an album that I made in a bell tower a few blocks away. Thank you for being a part of these songs. This video is for you.

The process of modern worries was generally one where I was wrestling with the nature of technology. Technology is the future. Currently 34 cents of every dollar on the S&P 500 is designated to a technology company. The average teenager is looking at a screen for 7.22 hours per day. I asked a kid this summer if the digital world is more or less real than the physical world, to which he replied “they are the same.” I told him we could turn the internet off, and he said “you could turn me off too.” I may be getting old, but I disagree. I don’t think the digital world is real, I think it is a worse reproduction of the older atomic thing it is trying to display for us. The internet is getting worse and it is making me feel bad. It is the central conflict in my life and my job. That is why it is funny that I am telling you these things on this platform, but for better or for worse we all live here now. The stock market is 34 cents for every dollar, and we communicate our attention with our spending. It was important to me to release Modern Worries in a new way. I wanted to do it offline, in person. I wanted it to be in the spirit of giving instead of taking. We did a lottery for the tickets, and then I invited everyone who has ever worked on any of my records who was nearby. @dumbanddrummer made milk teeth with me, and he came. @blake_lagrange worked on letters to lost loves. @sarahemilygrant sang on rivers and roads, way back in the day. Not to mention all the musicians, like @mattpwright and @danieljgriffo and @patrickdodd and @aburnzy and @k0ok0okach0o and more people I can’t even mention them all. The boys at @fielderfilms shot the evening on a mini dv camera. It was a very special night for me, which was completely separated from the digital world. There were no phones. I felt a piece of my brain come alive, maybe the piece that is always thinking about harvesting my experiences and relationships and feelings for the fake four-inch by two-inch vertical tv show that has become our lives. I hope this video inspires you and reminds you that our lives aren’t inside our phones. More to come soon.

New episode: Cullen and Mason with Tyson Motsenbocker about his new album, his dreams, anxieties, and much more. Available on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Tyson Motsenbocker’s incredible new record Modern Worries is finally out in the world. Drop your favorite track in the comments and let us know why! Grab vinyl on our webstore at the link in bio. @japhyrider

Modern Worries arrives this Friday. Thanks for following along.

Catch Together Like a Family. Out today. I was I was wrong I was wrong to think the hardest parts were over The hard parts go And the hardest parts Grow harder than stone

I have a new song for you this Friday. Catch Together (Like a Family) is a song I wrote over a decade ago. It’s been recorded many times and never quite right. We recorded it for the Almira EPs and then again for Someday I’ll Make it All Up to You and then I found it again and dusted it off and spent another year putting new layers and taking them out again and feeding a bunch of sequencers into an old 1/4” tape machine. Maybe I would delete all that and do it again. It’s a story about loss and personal tragedy, watching the dreams of our younger selves encounter the ways that even the things we never considered could be lost can be. It’s a story about some people I grew up with, it’s a story about my own family. It came originally from watching the snow fall in the Northwest, when the snow is wet and heavy and the flakes clump together in the sky on the way down. I called your house And you answered crying And you did not know what to say For the first time But you told me it was snowing The way I like it Where they catch together Like a family.

REVERSE ALBUM RELEASE PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT.

This week I am excited to announce that although I am making hopeful music that is cool and good, my instagram has become a place for people to call me a “dumb ass” a “stupid ass” and an “NPC” because we got our van stolen like six months ago in Oakland and now the reel I made about it has triggered the algorithm to make everyone angry and talk about politics or whatever. I think an NPC is like the owl in Zelda who helps you discover new quests. I would love to be like that owl. My direction for you would be to go outside and save a princess. PS the algorithm is Bowser. (Different game)(also good game)

I wrote Future Seer about a time in my life where I felt very unimportant and overlooked. Sometimes I went to do things I didn’t want to do because other people invited me to. I went to some horror movies even though they scare me in an unfun way whereas some people like being scared but I am scared enough without trying, so therefore these movies are unappealing. I used to google the plot so I would know what sorts of terrible things were about to happen. Just peering into the future like a car on the back roads – I guess I’m leaving. Drive with the high beams. Thanks for listening. These are pictures that @mr_illectric took of me in a field.