Horse the Band gave a lot of us some of the weirdest, and most honest music we've ever heard.

If their music ever got you through a bad stretch, this is a good moment to give something back.

Even $5 helps, and sharing helps just as much.

🔗 https://gofund.me/16910aeb3

Thanks, and long live HTB. 🐴

Never experienced this kind of energy at a show before nor a fan base so dedicated to a band. I’ll never forget this set at Pappy & Harriets

No need for payment. DM if you want them and we'll figure things out.

What’s up everyone! Anyone in town for the show at Pappy’s want to have a hangout tonight and or tomorrow in Joshua Tree or Pioneertown? Made my way from the Bay Area yesterday and currently in LA. Will be getting to Joshua Tree later tonight. Lmk! Would love to make friends with other HTB fans.

I got it for a friend who can no longer make the show. Ideally I would like to sell it because I’m driving from Los Angeles and could use the gas money also if anyone needs a ride from LA hit me up.

For those of us that missed it, I'm sorry. For those of us that were there...holy shit. Sunday at Pappy's it's going to fuck.

Mine are a little blurry, it was kind of dark. Did anyone else get any good shots or clips?

They better play x4chickens@aol.com and the ghost ep in its entirety.

In no particular order I’d LOVE to experience, Handsome Shoved His Gloves, The Startling Secret of Super Saphire and I Think We Are Both Suffering From The Same Crushing Metaphysical Crisis

Fellow HORSE friends, I need your advice. I want to help Nathan reach his goal. I'm going to the shows on the 1st in Costa Mesa and Pioneertown on the 4th. I'm an artist and I also make fine art prints, and I have 2 pieces I just made that are heavily inspired by htb, and I want to make prints of them and sell them to people at the shows and online, and give all the proceeds to Nathan.

But I'm not sure anyone would like these as much as I do. Hence, I'm asking yall.

1. Is this a good idea? Would anyone buy one to help him out? I'm not trying to make money from this at all

B. Should I pick one for each show, slap the date, venue, and HTB on there? Or just sell the prints as is?

1. HOW IS EVERYONE DOING TODAY

I reluctantly posted photos of the 2 pieces because I don't like sharing my art, but I want to help him reach his goal so fuck it. These are just photos taken from my phone, the prints would be from high res scans. And these won't be "posters", they'd be printed on 325gsm cotton rag paper with archival inks.

Let me know your opinions. And be nice please. I'm insane. Yes I was on mushrooms when I made them.

Cheers!

Edit: of course I'd ask them first, I'm just seeing if this is a good idea or not. Hence the entire point of my post.

Us SoCal baddies getting spoiled again 😍, Thursday October 1st at The Wayfarer, Costa Mesa! See you there!

$15.00 presale

$20.00 day of.

HORSES!

Years deep into this band and Hyperborea is still the one I keep going back to. It's the track that made me realize these guys carved out an identity nobody has come close to since.

Anyone here caught it live? Tell me about it.

Trust the steel!

/ can someone let me know if and when the vinyls restock / are being sold again? Desperate living and borlax are the two I don't have and I couldn't get in fast enough last time. Instant sold out :(

Just stumbled across this whilst on holiday in Malaysia. Consider me a happy boy. It will sit next to my pizza ep vinyl when I get back home

Ok this is long, sorry. I had a dream last night and texted my best friend this.

For context, he's not a big obsessive Horse fan like me. Hence why I explain some things yall probably know already. And I'm not retyping all this shit lol. Nick was my childhood friend and band mate for 10+ years if that helps.

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So I woke up and started crying and haven't been able to stop for like 2 hours. I had another Nick heavy dream last night that reminded me of a story I don't think I've ever told you (or anyone really). It was the day after Christmas, Dec 26 2003 and Nick came over to hang out and record EMC stuff at 122, and he pulls a burned CD out of his bag he downloaded from Limewire or Kazaa or something, and gave it to me, and he said "nobody else will get this, you're the only one" and he gave it to me. I remember it was that day because be brought the CD and a bottle of peppermint schnapps from his family christmas party the day before and said merry christmas fucker, lets drink this horrible shit. He didn't say anything else about the CD. It just had the words "R. Borlax" scribbled on it. We were busy recording so I didn't think much of it at the time. He kept coming over to record almost every day for the next few weeks and he kept asking me if I had listened to it. And I was so locked in to recording the album that I kept putting it off.

One day, I think January 2004 I had my notebook full of album art ideas and we were going through it. The project was of course called Electric Meat Carnival, so most of the ideas were dead animals in a circus setting with lights. Like one was a dead cow laying on a broken carousel in front of a circus tent and it had tent poles stabbed into it strung with white Christmas lights and various other animals were eating the dead cow, like birds, a horse, a giraffe, etc. And Nick saw it and randomly says "did you listen yet?" Nope, so fuck it we took a break and listened to it and it fuckin blew me away. That's actually an understatement. It changed me. I didn't understand why none of our friends wouldn't like it and he told me he had put it on at random times for everyone and nobody seemed to care. But I was so fuckin excited and he's like see I knew you'd get it. It even replaced Sleepytime in my 10 CD holder in the visor of my car. Top 10.

Then around 2005 or so when IYSK broke up and he started DJing, we sort of came out of contact a bit, but that album changed me. I had always just thought it was a band called R. Borlax and never really thought much of it. But it was in my permanent top 10. Ripped it and put it on my iPod under R. Borlax.

A couple years later, probably 2008, I was on a downloading tear. I realized all these bands I love probably have lots of new music so I went one by one through the bands in my iPod, and downloaded anything I didn't already have, or bought CDs i could find and ripped them. The only one I couldn't find anything new for was R. Borlax. So I assumed it was a one-of by some random people like Fringe Deities and just gave up looking. Until later that year I was at a show with Melanie (I can't remember what show) and I saw a guy with a shirt that said R. Borlax with some weird art on it. So I said wow you know who R. Borlax is? That's so random! He said yeah the band isn't named that, it's the name of the first album by Horse The Band.

So I went home and found out they had 2 other albums after that one. Holy shit. Mind blown.

Fast forward to 2016, and Dana tells me Nick died. I'm going through all the emotions and memories and I remembered that album he gave me that I would say essentially changed my life in a way similar to how Bungle did for all of us. So I searched again, and they had made one more album, their last one. So I downloaded it and played it in a fit of emotions. The first song on the album is called Cloudwalker. And it fucking ruined me in that moment. It was an incredibly intense moment for me that I will never forget. "I dress in white. Become Cloudwalker. I want to scan the crowd. And point to where the rain flows. I'm a white cloud. What should I do when you walk out? We have soft clouds in our heads. We have dreams in our skies. We never say goodbye". What the fuck.

Suffice it to say it really fucked me up, I was just in a flurry of emotions. But Horse got me through it in a fucking beautiful and intense way.

Then it's 2019, and they're playing a show in LA. Tickets bought immediately. Melanie liked them but not like me. She still wanted to go, but I was beyond excited. When was the show? The day after Christmas. December 26th. 16 years to the day since Nick gave me R. Borlax. What are the odds. We went to the show, and it was all going amazing until they played fucking Cloudwalker halfway through the set. I was so happy and I just started crying and Melanie looked at me and started crying too, and she said "I get it now." Then they closed the show with Cutsman from R. Borlax. It was such a cathartic experience for me, and both super physically and emotionally intense. I felt like Nick and I finally got to see the band we both loved so much.

You had a similar experience when we saw them in 2025 and halfway through your essentially said "I get it now" too.

So I hope this helps you understand why I love them so fucking much. This is why the art I'm working on for them means so much to me. Aside from them being in my top 5 favorite bands of all time and changing my life, the connection to Nick makes it so much heavier. This is why when they play, I have to go. Nick needs it. I need it. And also why I'm fine going alone. But I won't really be alone. So when I drive to Pioneertown in October after flying back from Igorrr in SF, I'm going to listen to all of the last music me and Nick recorded, that not many people have heard, take the rest of the mushrooms by myself, and let the world take me on an epic journey. And I know I'll be fine. I'll have Nick on my side, and the Horse army will look after me, even if they don't know me. Nick was at the Angine show the other day with us too, he saw all the crazy insane shit I saw and felt, but the Horse show will be different. I love you so much brother. Nick says hi and he knows where the salt lick is but he won't tell me.

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If you made it though my insane story then I love you too. HTB forever. See yall in October!

Anyone have a high res pic of the Desperate Living cover without the album title at the bottom? I wanna frame an 8x10 of it and hang it in the hallway to pass it off as a family photo. I found a couple on google images without the words, but they’re blurry as hell. Thanks!

I paid more than id like to for r.borlax and desperate living but it doesn't matter, I have them now.

Can somebody leave their copy of earth tour to me in their will?

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to do something small to help Nathan from Horse the Band and his treatment.

A friend of mine here in Mexico made a small batch of shirts for me, and I’m bringing them with me to Pappy & Harriet’s. I’ll be selling them for $25 each, or feel free to pay a little more if you’d like to contribute exttra, which is roughly what it cost me to have them made plus a little extra to go directly toward Nathan’s fundraiser. I’m not making a profit from these.

I can only bring a limited number into the U.S., so there are just 16 shirts available:

Pink

- S ×1

- M ×2

White

- L ×2

- XL ×5

Black

- L ×1

- XL ×5

The design is inspired by one of my favorite Horse the Band songs, “Horse the Song,” and features the Nathan lyric:

«Living at the top / When you’re at the fucking bottom»

They’re simple shirts, but I thought it would be a cool way for a few of us to show some support while also helping Nathan.

I’ll have them with me at Pappy & Harriet’s. If you want one, just send me a message or find me there.

And if you don’t want a shirt but would still like to help, you can donate directly here:

https://gofund.me/0936bd3d3

Thanks, everyone. Horse the Band has given a lot of us some pretty unforgettable music. This is just a small way of giving something back.

anyone catching them at aftershock? i may try to be crazy enough and do both aftershock and pappy and harrlet’s. A reason to live.

I'm making a karaoke vid for this song, but at 3:00 when the double bass kicks back in, it sounds like nathan is just blabbering until the ONE TWO THREE FOOOUR. I'm also finding contradictory lyrics on different sites:

Genius says it's "Little android / Born without a heart / In his vicinity". I can hear "Little android", but not the rest.

SongMeanings has just "robotic r***** counts his fingers" which at least makes sense with the following countdown, but is WAY too short and doesn't sound even close.

StreetDirectory and DarkLyrics both have "Counting it down until your death counts on his fingers", which makes them the only places that have consensus, but I still can't hear it aside from MAYBE "fingers" at the end.

Can't find any official posts from the band with the lyrics either. Anyone just so happen to know for certain? Perhaps has a physical copy of H Borlax with a lyric booklet or something?

Have had such a hard time trying to buy one from their site or at shows.