Fruit Bats

Watch Bonny Light Horseman Perform Cuts from Debut LP at Green River Festival

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2021

Folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman have reunited for a special live session at Green River Festival in Greenfield, MA, for Paste Magazine...

Fruit Bats Announce New Album 'The Pet Parade'

PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2021

Eric D. Johnson's Fruit Bats have returned with plans for a new album titled The Pet Parade, which is set to arrive through Merge Records o...

Fruit Bats Prep Cover Album of Smashing Pumpkins' 'Siamese Dream'

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2020

Fruit Bats' Eric D. Johnson has announced plans to release a cover album of Smashing Pumpkins' seminal 1993 effort Siamese Dream. The recor...

Friend/Enemy

HIH NO/ON

PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2020

The new record from Chicago supergroup Friend/Enemy — featuring members of Cap'n Jazz, Mute Duo, Fruit Bats, Joan of Arc and American Footb...

​The Decemberists Bring 20th Anniversary Tour to Toronto

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2020

The Decemberists are celebrating 20 years since becoming a band by taking a career-spanning set on tour.   Dubbed "Twenty Years Before the...

Fruit Bats

Gold Past Life

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2019

"I can't envision who I've become" sings Eric D. Johnson on "Cazadera," the fourth track on Gold Past Life, Fruit Bats' latest album. It's...

Fruit Bats

Main Stage, Victoria BC, September 18

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2016

Talk about a rhythm section. Sitting effortlessly in the pocket, Fruit Bats' set breezed over the mid-afternoon sunny lawns of Rifflandia f...

Fruit Bats Call It Quits

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2013

After more than a decade of activity, Chicago-based indie folk unit Fruit Bats are calling it quits. Band leader Eric D. Johnson delivered...