New EP Line Up out everywhere on Friday the 13th!
Line Up is a four-song EP about late night conversations, conflicts, and the disciplined, sometimes obsessive craft of chasing something that can never be caught.
The music leans darker and heavier, a continuation of where Second Tongue left off. We recorded these tracks during the same winter sessions, the band locked in.
These songs didn’t spark into existence. They were mined. Stayed up with. Debated with. Followed down side roads.
I couldn’t be happier with how they turned out.
Featured in the Boston Globe
Thanks to Eric Danton for the thoughtful piece about our band name adventures.
You can read the rest of the story here:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/27/arts/bands-same-names/
The Lucky Shots’ luck has run out:
Now we are The Unlucky Shots™
So here’s the story: we used to be called The Lucky Shots. Then we found out there’s another group using that name, out west, apparently, where the sun is bright, the egos are large, and cease-and-desist emails grow wild and free.
While they’ve been busy trademarking nouns, we’ve been busy making actual music. Still, rather than waste more energy arguing with strangers over who’s luckier, we decided to skip the drama and go full truth-in-advertising: We are now The Unlucky Shots™.
Same band, same songs, same odd smell in the practice space. Just slightly more cursed, and way more likely to roll our eyes if we hear the phrase “pending trademark dispute.”
So cheers to our West Coast namesake. May their luck hold. We’ll be over here doing what we do best, making noise and laughing about it.
You can find our music at www.theunluckyshots.com and we will be back up on streaming services soon. So, shots fired, but we’re good.
On a serious note: to my creative friends out there, take steps to secure your name and intellectual property sooner rather than later. You can’t rely on the other person to be nice about it.
Check out this great clip of us playing “Line Up” with our good friend Adam Dunetz
Upcoming Shows
Upcoming Shows
Friday 3/20/26
with Bring it to Bear and Bella Comets
Luthier’s Co-op
Friday 3/27/26
Back Porch Fest
Progression Brewing Company
Friday 4/17/26
w/ Wishbone Zoe
Marigold Brattleboro
Saturday 5/23/26
The Voo, Turner’s Falls
Saturday 7/11/26
Floodwater Brewing, Shelburne Falls
What does it mean to be “Lucky”?
If you consider the vastness of things, just the fact that you experience even one average day of your life seems pretty darn lucky. Even the bad days are really secret gifts, hiding their joy like clouds in front of the sun.
Music is one of the ways I remind myself of how lucky I am every day
Watch this video of our set at the Divine Theater: