Caleb Nichols is a queer writer and musician from San Luis Obispo, CA. Since 2005, Caleb's played guitar, bass, and sang in bands as disparate as DIY folk-punks the Bloody Heads, mid-2000's Pitchfork buzz band Port O'Brien, and Rogue Wave side project Release the Sunbird, not to mention his own projects, Grand Lake, CHURCHES (US) and Soft People. He’s published poetry in places like the Longleaf Review, Redivider, Queerlings, and 14 Poems, and his debut chapbook of poems was called “a gorgeous abundance” by celebrated poet Chen Chen.

In 2021 Caleb was signed to legendary indie label Kill Rock Stars. He's released an EP and a full length on the label, and he’s been playing shows with an epic cast of rotating band members that includes Adam and Alex Nash (Goodnight Texas), Kevin Middlekauf (Proxima Parada), Pat Spurgeon (Rogue Wave, the Dandy Warhols) and Joshua Barnhart (Port O’Brien, Strange Pilgrim). The shows are joyful, contagious, and electric, and mark a stunning return to music from a poet and musician who’s just never given up.

Joining Caleb is Hartlepool Indie-Pop trio MT. MISERY and Glasgow-based duo U.S. HIGHBALL.

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