FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER is a rock-and-soul commune born in Nashville, Tennessee and reborn in Portland, Oregon. Drawing from strange, cult-leaning texts uncovered during a cross-country field-recording journey, the band has built a groove-driven, secular spiritual world rooted in communal soul and 1970s swagger.
Their newest single, “Total Monet”, drifts in from a place of quiet perspective, reflecting on how distance and time support reality. Rooted in electric piano, steady grooves, and layered harmonies, the song carries a sun-faded West Coast warmth, evolving into a soft glow that washes everything in a gentler view.
Sharing insight to the single, the band states, “Looking back on a relationship, some “Clueless” people focus only on the good memories. The farther they get from the pain, the fonder the memories grow. It can seem like a masterpiece in their mind, but if they look closely and see it for what it was, they’ll see it was a big old mess.”
Since their 2023 full-length Kicked Out of the Garden, which spent months on the NACC 200 and appeared on NPR’s Live Wire Radio, Family Worship Center has toured nationally, continued work on a new record, and performed as the live backing band for cult legend Donnie Emerson. Known for their ecstatic live shows featuring horns, harmonies, and piano-driven gospel soul, the band has been praised by KEXP as “truly the best live band I have seen in years.”
Only Visiting pre-order: https://corporatrecords.shop/collections/fwc-all/products/family-worship-center-only-visiting
see FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER live:
05/22 Portland OR @ Polaris Hall
06/19 Trout Lake WA @ Trout Lake Hall
06/20 Seattle WA @Tractor Tavern
06/21 Boise ID @ Shrine Social Club
06/22 Salt Lake City UT @ Quarters/DLC
06/24 Denver CO @ Hi Dive
06/26 Phoenix AZ @ Dirty Drummer
06/27 Tucson AZ @ Che’s Lounge
06/28 San Clemente CA @ Knuckleheads
07/01 Los Angeles CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse
07/02 San Francisco CA @ The Rickshaw
07/03 Bend OR @ Silver Moon Brewing
Family Worship Center, Portland’s sprawling rock-and-soul collective, returns with their highly anticipated release of Only Visiting. A collection of songs rooted in telling the lost stories of a road trip some years ago. Bathed in sun-washed 70s textures and the band’s mythic lens, the record carries itself in vague familiarity of a time now considered vintage. Only Visiting is backed by CorpoRAT Records for release on Friday, June 12th, 2026.
visit FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER online:
Website: https://bio.site/familywarship
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/familywarship
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/familywarship/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/familywarship
Bandcamp: https://familywarship.bandcamp.com/music
Label: https://www.corporatrecords.com/family-worship-center
Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/9765342/u
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/family-worship-center/1494834199
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Kti0Urjz53ZhYTWiB6Dl2
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