FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Boston, MA — May 22, 2026 — Brave Tiger Records is proud to announce Warmonger, a new three-song EP by Joshua David Thayer, arriving Friday, May 29, 2026. The EP will be available on Bandcamp, Subvert, and ScratchStream.
The three songs — “Warmonger,” “That’s The Way I Roll,” and “Stay Small” — are each voiced from positions of power. An evil man insisting a horrific scenario will end only when he says it ends. A chronic liar boasting that no one dares name him as a villain. A controlling voice from the top instructing the people beneath him to stay quiet. No empathy, no sympathy, simply command and control.
The songs of the EP all arrived as a batch over a couple weeks in March and April 2026, while Thayer was exploring other material. “I was sorting through a pile of other demos when these three started pushing their way through, I guess driven by the state of things around us,” he says. “I didn’t sit down to write about any of these topics in particular. I picked up a guitar, started building drum beats, and the material itself coerced these words into place.”
The choice to release the EP only on Bandcamp, Subvert, and ScratchStream — and not on the larger streaming services — is intentional. Thayer’s framing is direct:
“Songs about the corporate machinery of power shouldn’t be feeding that very same machinery.”
ScratchStream — Thayer’s own independent high-fidelity streaming platform, built around a one-cent minimum per play and direct artist payouts — is the canonical streaming home for the EP. Bandcamp and Subvert are the canonical places to support through purchases.
Thayer acknowledges the EP is a different mode for him. “It feels like something I have to put out — as if the songs picked the moment, not me.”
→ Listen on Bandcamp, Subvert, and ScratchStream — live on May 29
About the release
- Title: Warmonger
- Artist: Joshua David Thayer
- Catalog: BTR-008
- Format: 3-track EP
- Tracklist: 1. Warmonger / 2. That’s The Way I Roll / 3. Stay Small
- Release date: Friday, May 29, 2026
- Available on: Bandcamp, Subvert, and ScratchStream
- Genre: Indie rock
- Credits: Written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Joshua David Thayer at Brave Tiger Studio, March–April 2026. Mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East. Released by Brave Tiger Records, BTR-008, 2026.
About Joshua David Thayer
Joshua David Thayer is a Medford, MA-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Warmonger follows two solo records on Brave Tiger Records — It Will Still Keep Feeling Rough (2024) and So Little, Close to Nothing (2025) — and the single Beginning To See The Dark / Tempest (Acoustic) (2025). His work has been covered by Rock and Roll Fables, The Indy Review, The Whole Kameese, Freak Scene, Greenfield Recorder, If It’s Too Loud, and others.
About Brave Tiger Records
Brave Tiger Records is a small, curated label based in Boston, releasing music by a deliberate roster of artists. More at bravetigerrecords.com.
Press contact: Joshua Thayer | brave@bravetigerrecords.com
