DANGER PAINTERS
Danger Painters is Michael Barron, Bob Boilen, Kevin Lay, and William X Harvey. Their musical heritage dates back to the seminal 70s-80s Washington, DC music scene, including Tiny Desk Unit, Fuji's Navy, and Rhoda & The Bad Seeds.
The band members met in DC but now live in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and California, and have made all 19 albums and 3 EPs collaborating and performing long-distance via the internet and rarely performing in public. They were the first band to play DC's new venue, Anthem. Members of Tiny Desk Unit were the first band to play the 9:30 Club in May of 1980. Danger Painters’ last performance was a memorial concert at the 9:30 Club for Tiny Desk Unit singer Susan Mumford, who died in September 2019.
TWENTY
Recorded in Silver Spring, MD, Santa Monica, CA, Shohola, PA, and Brooklyn, NY, over the course of Winter, 2023-2024
Released on the First of March 2024
In response to the 2024 RPM Challenge
Produced and mixed by Bob Boilen Cover design by Michael Barron.
NINETEEN
Recorded in Silver Spring, MD, Santa Monica, CA, New York, NY, and Shohola, Pa
Released March 1, 2023, in response to the 2023 RPM Challenge
Kevin Lay: Vocals, Lyrics
Michael Barron: Guitar, Vocals
Bob Boilen: Synth, Drums, Piano, Guitar, & aural mischief
Eric Vanderzee - Whale Trombone and Rise on “Baby’s Breath”
Produced and Mixed by Bob Boilen
Cover Design and Photos by Michael Barron
EIGHTEEN
Recorded in Santa Monica, CA, Silver Spring, MD, Shohola, PA, New York, NY, & Brooklyn, NY
Between February 1 and February 28, 2022
In response to the 2022 RPM Challenge.
Kevin Lay: Vocals, Lyrics
Michael Barron: Guitar, Vocals
Bob Boilen: Synth, Guitar, & Extra Sauce
Produced and Mixed by Bob Boilen
Cover Design and Photos by Michael Barron
XVII
The 17th Danger Painters full-length album
released February 28, 2021
Recorded in Santa Monica, CA, Silver Spring, MD, Shohola, PA, New York, NY, & Brooklyn, NY
Between February 1 and February 28, 2021
In response to the 2021 RPM Challenge
Kevin Lay: Vocals, Lyrics
Michael Barron: Guitar, Vocals
Bob Boilen: Synth, Guitar, Mountain Dulcimer, Oud, Drums, Atmo, & Extra Sauce
Bill Harvey: Bass
Produced and Mixed by Bob Boilen
Cover Design and Photos by Michael Barron
©2021 Danger Painters
TEENXIS
TEENXIS is the Sixteenth album by Danger Painters and crazy as it sounds; it’s our 3rd album of 2020.
Thank Speak Love This Record
This is the 15th Danger Painters full-length album, the second (so far) of 2020
released May 1, 2020
Kevin Lay, Vocals, Toy Piano, Ostrich Guitar, Lyrics (*except "Zoom")
Michael Barron, Guitars, Vocals, Lyrics*
Bob Boilen, Synth, Guitar, Drums and All That Other Stuff
Bill Harvey, Bass
Ex Ivy
The fourteenth Danger Painters album
Released February 29, 2020 in response to the February 2020 RPM Challenge
Kevin Lay: Vocals, E-Bow and Lyrics
Michael Barron: Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Bob Boilen: Everything Else You Hear or Think You Hear
Produced and Mixed by Bob Boilen
Album Art and Design by Michael Barron
Picture The Dawn of Winter (EP)
Written & Recorded Fall of 2019 Released Winter of 2019
Mixed and Produced by Bob Boilen
Cover Design by Michael Barron Photographs by Kevin Lay and Bob Boilen
Michael Barron - Less guitar than you’d think and backing vocals
Bob Boilen - Pretty much everything else besides above and below
Kevin Lay - Lyrics and vocals
13
Our 13th album
Written and recorded in 4 locations between February 1 and February 28, 2019, in response to the 2019 rpm challenge
Kevin Lay - Vocals, Loops and all Lyrics
Michael Barron - Guitars, Xylophone & Vocals
Bob Boilen - Synth, Guitar, Electric Mandolin, Aural Voodoo Terry Baker - Bass
Produced and mixed by Bob Boilen
Special Thanks to Nick Koumoutseas
Cover design and artwork by Michael Barron
©2019 all rights reserved dangerpainters.bandcamp.com
Picture the End of Summer
PICTURE THE END OF SUMMER
The Twelfth Album by Danger Painters
In loving memory of Susan Mumford (1954-2018)
Kevin Lay - Vocals and Lyrics
Michael Barron- Guitars, Bass and Vocals
Bob Boilen - Synths, Drums, Noise, Mountain Dulcimer
Written & Recorded in three locations
Summer, 2018
Produced and Mixed by Bob Boilen
Cover Design and Artwork by Michael Barron
@2018 All Rights Reserved
11
The eleventh full-length Danger Painters album, and thirteenth release from this prolific combo whose origins trace from the seminal 70s and 80s music scene in Washington, DC.
Tiny Desk Unit, Rhoda and the Bad Seeds, Fuji's Navy
Kevin Douglas Lay - Lyrics and Vocals
Michael Barron - Guitars and Vocals
Bob Boilen - Drums, Synths, Mountain Dulcimer, Aural Voodoo
William X Harvey - Bass
Released February 28, 2018
Fall
Fall is our second album in 2017. Intended as another summer EP, it was a project that would/couldn't be stopped. This record features Kevin Lay on vocals. Kevin has been a lyricist with Danger Painters since our 5th album - now he sings with us. The rest of the lineup:
Michael Barron - Guitar, Piano and Vocals
Bob Boilen - Drums, Mountain Dulcimer, Guitar, Synth and Aural Voodoo
Kevin Lay - Vocals, Loops and Lyrics William X Harvey - Bass and Guitar
Released November 24, 2017
9 (2017)
S7even (2015)
V (2013)
THE PINK CHAIR (2009)
Another Summer - EP (2016)
Summer EP (2014)
IV (2011)
DANGER PAINTERS (2008)
Ate (2016)
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iii (2010)