Badflower’s Josh Katz Struggling But Tour Will Continue

Josh Katz has had some inconsistencies with feeling content in recent years which has continued here on Badflower’s 2026 tour.  The band’s singer is having issues with singing the highest and lowest notes in his range – often Badflower songs call for some vocal jumps and dips.  He went on Instagram and explained what his mental state is and how he will have to ignore it for the tour to continue. 

“My vocal chords are fine, that’s the problem.  My voice keeps cracking at lower registers. It used to just be the high notes but now it’s becoming the lower notes, and what I can feel is it’s degrading at a steady pace and something is happening that can’t be seen with the scope or camera.  The  doctors thought maybe it was muscular and sent me to a physical therapist. We were doing all these stretches and exercises. I was seeing a speech therapist/vocal coach – a standard vocal coach.”

Katz thinks it could be the physical body tied to the mind.

"For anyone concerned if I’m doing damage to my vocal chords, I’m not, I’m doing it to my brain. My mental health is suffering pretty f---ing bad.  What you don’t see is I’m smashing up things in the green room – I have to pay for that.  I’ve been seeing people saying, why don’t they just postpone the tours until his voice gets better. One, I don’t see my voice getting better. Two, if we cancel or postpone a tour, the band shrinks. The more time we wait to go again, the less people that will show up.”

Josh hasn’t been able to consider cancelling the tour due to the way the music industry is economically.

“I don’t know if you know much about the music industry these days, but we don’t make a lot of money.  You guys are paying more and more money for tickets but that doesn’t mean the band is making more and more money on ticket sales.  It’s a job, a job for the four of us and those on crew who rely on this. So I’m gonna press on and do it with a smile.  I might smash a guitar here or there. I’ll probably smash some green rooms, I’ll probably say things I regret, I’ll crash out.  I’m gonna get emotional.  I’m gonna do all the human things humans do.  The thing is I’ll be doing it on stage. You’ll still see the human who wrote the songs that you care about.  I’m a narcissist so what the f--- do I know?” 

Badflower has nine more shows with the tour scheduled to end on March 21st in Nashville, Tennessee.