2024

Timeline

January

• 24th: Snakefinger's Chewing Hides the Sound is reissued by Klanggalerie as a deluxe edition with a bonus disc of mixes made by The Residents in 1987 for the Snakey Wake event.

February

• 2nd: A clip of "Semolina" from the Secret Show video is released. God in 3 Persons shows are announced for Athens, Greece and Paris, France.
• 15th: All dates for God in 3 Persons are cancelled.
• 16th: Secret Show: Live in San Francisco is released by Cherry Red / MVD.
• 18th: Psychofon Records announces it will be publishing Andrew Hook's Commercial Book, a collection of short stories inspired by The Residents' Commercial Album.
• 20th: Homer Flynn publicly announces that The Residents will no longer be collaborating with Nolan Cook.
• 22nd: The Residents announce a performance at the San Francisco Public Library's Night of Ideas festival. It's Psychedelic Baby magazine publishes a new interview with Homer Flynn.
• 26th: The Residents announce that they will be performing "a condensed version of their classic Eskimo album" at the Night of Ideas show.

March

• 2nd: The Residents perform Eskimo at the San Francisco Public Library.

April

• 6th: The Commercial Book by Andrew Hook (author of N. Senada's biography) is published by Psychofon Records, including a CD of all radio ads for the Commercial Album.
• 20th: Leftovers Again?! Again!?!, a second collection of unissued archival material, is released for Record Store Day.

June

• Bobuck's Clank Clank Clank EP is reissued on vinyl by Psychofon.
• 28th: The pREServed edition of Demons Dance Alone is released by Cherry Red / MVD, and also reissued on vinyl.

September

• 27th: The single "Duck Sauce" from the upcoming Dookietown EP is released.

October

• 1st: Psychofon releases a special objet d'art item of Ego Plum's "Duck Sauce Refried" remix. 25 copies are up for pre-order and sold out almost immediately.
• 7th: The Faceless Forever live album, The Residents... are Faceless! is released by Klanggalerie.
• 18th: Shadowland: Live in Fribourg 2016 is released by Secret Records.
• 18th: The Residents perform the new song "Cortical Nights" at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France.
• 27th: A restoration of Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?, followed by an hour of outtakes, is shown at the OFFLINE Cinema in Glasgow, Scotland.

November

• 1st: The Dookietown EP is released by Cherry Red / MVD as a 10" record.
• 22nd: The Ralph Records retrospective compilation, Buy or Die! Ralph Records 1972-1982, curated by The Residents, is released by Cherry Red / MVD.

Releases

• Secret Show: Live in San Francisco (live album)
• The Residents... Are Faceless! (Faceless Forever live album)
• Dookietown (10" EP)
• Shadowland: Live in Fribourg, Switzerland 2016 (live album)
• Leftovers Again?! Again!?! (Record Store Day outtakes collection, 1976-1985)
• "Duck Sauce Refried" (10" single packaged with a miniature turntable)
• "Semolina" / "Hello Skinny" (Live 2023) (digital single)

Re-releases

• Chewing Hides the Sound (Snakefinger album, 2xCD deluxe edition with bonus disc of remixes by The Residents)
• Demons Dance Alone (pREServed edition and LP)
• Eskimo (Psychofon LP)
• "Nobody's Nos" (Digital release)
• "That'll Be the Day (Baby Baby)" (Digital release)
• Clank Clank Clank (LP release, Bobuck)

Newsletter freebies

• Demons Dance for Free! (outtakes left off of DDA pREServed)
  1. "ENOugh" ("Tortured" sketch)
  2. "DIsh" ("Hidden Hand" instrumental - different mix from Best Left Unspoken)
  3. "Dance with the Devil" ("Demons Dance Alone" sketch)
  4. "Betty's Body" (demo - alternate version w/ sax, edited)
  5. "The Weatherman" (vocal demo)
• Wood Snakes (first EP of unissued Hunters material)
  1. "Possum Peril"
  2. "Reptile Suite"
  3. "Snake Terror"
  4. "Snake Heaven"
  5. "Snake Killer"
  6. "Sninto"
  7. "Soggy Hell"
  8. "Skin Shed"
• "Rest Aria" (from the Secret Show album)
• "Beekeeper's Daughter" (demo - taken from Demons Dance Alone pREServed)
• "Low Horses" (rough mix of High Horses without sound effects)
• "Another Unknown Non-Masterpiece"
• "Italian Sunglass Movie" by Gary Panter (alternate unissued mix)
• "Hit the Road Jack" (RDX)