Tsunami

Loud Is As nominated for a GRAMMY

Nov 7, 2025: We were delighted to learn that our box set, Loud Is As, released one year ago today, was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Recording Package Design category. Congrats to and huge amounts of appreciation for our designers, Farbod Kokabi and Emily Sneddon, and tons of love to The Numero Group for enthusiastically supporting this project.

LOUD IS AS @ NUMERO

Tsunami on KEXP

Tsunami did a live session at KEXP Seattle in April 2025.

Genius of Crack
Enter Misguided
Quietnova
Keeping the Weekend Free (with Dan Littleton from Ida)
Academy Fight Song (with Ida)

KEXP @ YouTUBE

RECENT SHOWS

Scrawl, Chris Brokaw Rock Band, Tsunami

Sunday, Aug 31, 2025
Union Pool
Brooklyn, NY

SOLD IT OUT.

Positive Force 40th Anniversary Benefit Show

Saturday, June 21, 2025
St. Stephens Church
1525 Newton St NW, Washington, DC 20010

Soulside, Holy Rollers, Tsunami, No Man (special guests: Pete and Enoch of Scream). A benefit for Gaza Soup Kitchen and We Are Family DC.

Learn more about the week of shows and activism here.

1" BUTTONS

COIN TOSS TOUR

Ida and Tsunami Completed a Co-Headlining US Tour in Spring 2025

In the mid-1990s, the musical lives of DC-based Tsunami and the NYC-based Ida were intertwined. In addition to sharing many bills and tours together, Tsunami’s label, Simple Machines Records, released Ida’s first three albums, and the band members frequently collaborated on other musical projects. Now, 25 years later, both bands celebrated the reissue of these releases by The Numero Group with the Coin Toss tour in March and April 2025.

In a nod to equity, whimsy, and jamming econo, the two bands shared equipment and van space, and determined each night’s stage order by a flip of the coin, fusing their sets together. Special guests – representing the bands’ wide network of musical friends and heroes – joined them on stage at most shows, to lend a crazy guitar part, or guest vocals, or to play one of their own songs. There were patches, participation prizes, and a joyful noise.

TOUR MERCH

Loud Is As on New York Times Best-of List for 2024

Tsunami was floored to be included on this New York Times list of best box sets and reissues alongside such titans as Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello and Alice Coltrane, described as one of DC's "most under appreciated bands."

Loud Is As on Billboard Best-of List for 2024

Much to Tsunami's delight and surprise, our retrospective box set, Loud Is As, released by The Numero Group in November 2024, was named the top box set reissue by Billboard Magazine. Tsunami can definitely say this is the first time we have ever been mentioned on any Billboard list.

Tsunami and Numero Group release Loud Is As

August 26, 2024 | Numero Group announces the release of Tsunami’s Loud Is As, a 5xLP box set out November 8, 2024. The box set is the first reissue of our catalog since our original releases, many long out-of-print. It includes the 4-track demos released as Cow Arcade (1991); remastered versions of our three Simple Machines albums, Deep End (1993), The Heart’s Tremolo (1994), and A Brilliant Mistake (1997); and all of our singles, b-sides, and compilation tracks. The 61 songs across the box set’s five LPs track Tsunami’s rapid evolution from a scrappy, self-taught outfit playing house parties and laser tag arcades, to a varied and ambitious band, using harmony and metaphor to tackle love and its disappointments, mock the corporate music industry, and kick back at capitalism.

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