The Cold List: Songs Missing Since Jake's Hiatus
By Pete Brooks
Jake Cinninger stepped off the road for the March 2026 West Coast run, and Brendan Bayliss has carried the guitar alone since. The first show without Jake was March 10. As of June 18 the band has played 31 shows in that stretch.
We pulled every song's play history to find the regulars that have gone quiet. All of these were in steady rotation in the two years before the break, and not one has shown up since the hiatus started. If you're filling out picks, treat this as the cold list. Calling any of them is a bet that the new lineup brings it back.
| Song | Lifetime plays | Plays (24mo before break) | Last played | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40's Theme | 543 | 29 | 2026-02-15 | 32 |
| Ringo | 548 | 28 | 2026-02-14 | 33 |
| Glory | 402 | 25 | 2026-02-15 | 32 |
| Utopian Fir | 436 | 24 | 2026-02-05 | 39 |
| Booth Love | 267 | 24 | 2026-02-06 | 38 |
| Believe the Lie | 194 | 22 | 2026-02-07 | 37 |
| Mulche's Odyssey | 437 | 21 | 2026-02-13 | 34 |
| Women Wine and Song | 189 | 17 | 2026-02-12 | 35 |
| Wizard Burial Ground | 186 | 17 | 2026-02-06 | 38 |
| Got Your Milk (Right Here) | 183 | 17 | 2026-02-06 | 38 |
| Pay the Snucka | 465 | 15 | 2026-02-05 | 39 |
| Dump City | 370 | 15 | 2026-02-12 | 35 |
| Syncopated Strangers | 447 | 14 | 2026-02-11 | 36 |
| The Bottom Half | 330 | 13 | 2026-02-01 | 41 |
| Uncle Wally | 234 | 8 | 2026-01-29 | 44 |
| Professor Wormbog | 326 | 7 | 2026-02-05 | 39 |
| Kabump | 249 | 6 | 2026-02-01 | 41 |
A lot of these track straight back to Jake. He sings lead on Believe the Lie, Glory, and Women Wine and Song. Wizard Burial Ground, Mulche's Odyssey, and 40's Theme are his instrumental features. With him off the road, they went quiet too.
A few longtime regulars are missing here on purpose. Out Of Order, Miami Virtue, Crucial Taunt, New Wings, and Roulette had already dropped out months before March, so their long gaps are about set rotation, not the hiatus.
We'll keep this updated. The night one of these comes back, the gap resets and somebody's picks pay off.
How this data was gathered
Every setlist comes from the All Things Umphreys API, loaded into a Postgres database that backs the picks game. ATU's API doesn't hand out gap or times-played numbers, so we compute those ourselves: for each song we count the shows that have a setlist and have happened since it was last played. A song played at the most recent show has a gap of 0. We checked the math against ATU's own show list to make sure the counts line up.
The numbers here were pulled straight from that database through an MCP server, so anything you ask Claude about Umphrey's setlists runs on the same data the game does. Both pieces are open source: the data store and loader and the MCP server.