This is Jack Symes here writing this bio about Jack Symes. I was born and raised in Pasadena, CA and after stints in the Bay Area and New York, I’m back in my hometown of LA. I’ve spent the better chunks of the last 9 years making records and touring, and here we are once again, buckling up for a little ride through the US. I’ll be touring with my dear friend and collaborator John Fatum who produced a new record of mine; we’ll be performing duo guitar and drums, and he’ll also be opening the shows under his project Jacksonport. We’ll be performing songs from my past albums as well as this new record. I think it’s gonna be a blast. Stoked for this summer run, hope to see y’all soon. xo, Jack –– On Jack’s new record All These Moments Feel Like Yesterday –– Missed opportunities at first kisses, losing friends, being a bully, and the many small mistakes one makes while growing up. Jack Symes’s new record All These Moments Feel Like Yesterday is a jewel box of sun-drenched nostalgia set to his contemporary California sound. The twelve tracks span reflective folk ballads and rollicking explosions about certain substances. But a string of sweetness is what holds them all together. Recorded at Montrose Recording in Los Angeles in early 2025, co-producers John Fatum and Adrian Olsen beautifully preserved and amplified the integrity, intimacy, and playfulness of Symes’s raw songwriting. Even though it’s accompanied by other instruments and field recordings, All These Moments is stripped-down and deeply personal, exploring the joys and trials of love, family, and the things that keep us going. Horned-up teens saying fucked up things, like ‘forever’s not enough,’ he sings on “Learning.” Shame it weighs a ton. But getting personal isn’t only about all our various loves and regrets. Capturing the idyllic Pasadena he grew up in and the spirit of LA’s DIY soft rock scene, All These Moments is a defining record in Symes’s growing catalogue, and represents a maturing sensibility and sound. “I took a break from thinking about and working on music,” he says. “Time, space, and quiet helped me get back to square one. And I’m happy at square one.” A rollercoaster of a record, it has many soft spots, but like life, it also takes sudden turns. A middle finger to the hamster wheel that is a “career” in music, Symes is more interested in standing in rivers with friends than the trappings of industry success, whatever that means. Earnesty is the name of the game. All These Moments Feel Like Yesterday is straight-up songwriting and soul-bearing stories about the moments that define a young man’s life, big and small: Smoking weed when your parents are out of the house, playing with dogs, friends getting married, chugging Red Bulls and screaming at the top of your lungs. Sure, well-crafted songs delivered by a silver tongued troubadour will always hit, but Symes lets his other voices out on this record too, and everything shines all the more because of it. Songs like “Little Green Leaves,” his version of a Kermit the Frog joint—that green-tongued romantic—are the moments when he truly stops giving a fuck and follows his heart. Letting it all hang out, and getting out of his own way, Symes is singing with a new sense of freedom and purpose. Presented by Songbyrd. This is an all ages event