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After Elephant Revival disbanded in 2018 after playing their last show to a sold out Red Rocks, Daniel Rodriguez set out as a solo artist.
“Daniel cements himself as a solo performer with forthcoming album Sojourn of a Burning Sun.” - ROLLING STONE
Daniel released his debut collection of songs as an EP titled Your Heart, The Stars, The Milky Way on February 15, 2019. His debut full-length album, Sojourn of a Burning Sun, was released on August 28th, 2020 on BMG Records. Both albums, produced by longtime friend and bandmate, Darren Garvey.
The Lumineers recorded and released Daniel’s song "This Is Life" after adding the words “Merry Christmas” to the chorus, turning it into an instant dark humored Christmas classic. "This is Life (Merry Christmas)" feat. Daniel Rodriguez was released in December of 2021. Rodriguez and his band supported The Lumineers on their BRIGHTSIDE World Tour in July and August of 2022, playing to sold out arenas and stadiums across North America, with a special homecoming show in front of 40,000 fans in Denver, Colorado. He has also performed with some of his talented friends and heroes such as Gregory Alan Isakov, John Craigie, Todd Snider and many more. His second full length LP, Vast Nothing, is set to be released on March 1st, 2023.
David Wax Museum || You Must Change Your Life
In the presence of the strange digital drone of hospital machines, David Wax’s thoughts turned to
13 songs and the changes they give voice to.
After suddenly and inexplicably collapsing, Wax—half of David Wax Museum alongside wife
and bandmate Suz Slezak—was headed for a heart catheterization in his hometown of Columbia,
Missouri, his doctors suspecting a heart attack. At a moment with more questions than answers,
he hurriedly signed his name to a waiver—and was struck by a revelation.
“Lying there on that stretcher the thing that kept running through my mind was: at least we made
You Must Change Your Life,” Wax recalls. “Whatever else happened, I felt at peace because this
record exists.”
The album, out May 5 on Nine Mile Records, is an openhearted manifesto – a collection that
embodies, then transcends bedrock elements of the band’s 15-year recording career.
For Wax, music has guided every step he holds sacred; he’s followed its palpable power, abiding
by its requisite unpredictability. After graduating at the top of his class at Harvard, he wandered
off an academic path to southern Mexico, finding what he calls “a clear before/after moment in
my life.” There, he studied folk music “at the feet of the masters” and internalized structures and
rhythms that continue to drive the band today. He and Slezak fell in love on their first national
tour, setting in motion a future full of vivid waking dreams. Together (now with their two
children in tow) they’ve logged 1,500 shows in every corner of the globe. From the back of a
pick-up truck in Nome, Alaska at a solstice parade, to a surreal moment in a tent filled with a
thousand Czechs hollering along to their iconic song “Harder Before It Gets Easier,” these
dreams continue to unfold for Wax and Slezak.
Their latest effort encapsulates this wildly winding spirit and delivers the past-, present- and
future-tense promises Wax and Slezak consider their shared purpose as musicians. To borrow
lyrics from early highlight “Luanne,” the duo’s life—just like the album—is a shape-shifter,
fate-twister, truth-sifter, dream-drifter, seam-ripper.
In this way, the album is fit for a world tilted off its axis, colored by a collective resistance to old
norms. Wax and Slezak give listeners permission to answer the whispers around and within
them—Be patient / Don’t tell me that you’re unworthy—affirming and exhorting the pursuit of
new ways of living.
During this season of oddly borrowed time, Slezak crafted her NPR-praised solo debut, Our
Wings May Be Featherless, and initiated what she calls a “rebalancing” of her own creativity.
The result—her power—is undiluted. On You Must Change Your Life, Slezak is a choir, a
conscience, an instrumental trailblazer. And when she takes the lead on “Go Break Some
Hearts,” she delivers a dazzling, dreamy innocence, evoking a kinder, gentler likeness of David
Lynch’s iconic Twin Peaks soundtrack.