Our latest album just released 6 hours ago, which is 3 weeks after our last performance gig where we performed 2 songs from this album.

No AI. 15 songs, 66 minutes, plenty of chances for you to roast my voice, guitar playing, and writing 🤓

I just listened to this this morning. I always thought Micky was the cheesiest of the Monkees and never gave him a full chance. This EP is great. It sounds like John C. Riley sang for a Brian Wilson Beach Boys and Ringo Starr wrote the songs. It’s light and fun.

Recorded on stage on opening night in Melbourne, Beetlejuice The Musical Live At The Regent Theatre Melbourne features Tony-nominated composer and lyricist Eddie Perfect in the title role.

With a stellar all-Australian cast including Karis Oka, Elise McCann, Rob Johnson, Tom Wren and Erin Clare, and never before recorded material, this limited edition double vinyl album is sure to be a collector’s dream!

Order via pre-sale now for your exclusive, signed, colourway edition, to celebrate the Halloween 2026 launch of the album.

What a time to be (un)alive!

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The Drowns have dropped the 3rd single from their upcoming album Harsh Reality. The song is called 3rd&Pike and features Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly on accordion. Check out the video from Digital Decay Films and preorder the album today via Pirates Press Records!

Audiomack: https://audiomack.com/ssk815/album/madera?share-user-id=174970217

Bandcamp: https://perseveranceband.bandcamp.com/album/madera

YouTube: https://youtu.be/b4I6RuXQiMc?si=71FI23QnWZxqQBYd

perseverance is a solo project of mine that I started making music for starting in 2024, a little bit before I turned 16. I would usually describe it as cybergrind with black metal / blackgaze and avant-garde / experimental elements and influences. However, for this album, it’s more along the lines of experimental metal in general as many of the songs are much more developed.

The project and its music was mainly made for my own personal enjoyment or because I wanted to see it exist, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to also share it with the world and see how it goes.

The release that I have linked in particular is my newly released, third album, madera, which follows a much more conceptual, eclectic, and experimental sound as opposed to my previous albums, posergrind and sadism.

Inspired by the album California by Mr. Bungle, I wanted to make an album that would try to give more credit and notice to my hometown of Madera, express some small-town pride if you will. While creating the album, I ended up diverting into a more personal and biographical approach to this album (including using original recordings and samples made by me or my family, other people, etc., making direct references to places in my hometown that have importance to me, and basically paying tribute to certain things and people that I found to have personally impacted my life). This album basically ended up as a personal account of my life and experience in Madera, rather than a full representation of the city; this is just from my perspective, there’s plenty more to see for yourself other than what I alone have written. Some parts on this album will be further explained in my fifth album, as I have another album for this project coming in eight months that I wanted to release first.

This album is both a shoutout to my hometown and a semi-autobiography.

My main influences for the project include Black Flag, Celtic Frost, Converge, Deafheaven, Fantômas, Full of Hell, Godflesh, Mr. Bungle, Philip Glass, Today Is the Day, and Wesley Willis. I also took some visual inspiration from the 1977 black-and-white film Eraserhead, directed by David Lynch. However, for this album, I was inspired by many other different artists including MF DOOM, Miles Davis, Phil Elverum, and Xiu Xiu. I was also generally inspired by the sounds of chamber music and punk rock for some songs, and the intro track was inspired by Bhangra music.

This album has had a LOT more attention and thought put into it like I’ve never done before, so I hope you find something to enjoy out of it!

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Check out the new album!

DOGSTAR 1 OUT NOW 🌀 the portal opens, the door awaits · · ·

made with friends, for friends
for anyone you love

It's just an ordinary day in Salsipuedes. The birds play violins, the trees blow drones, the neighbors tune into their Buddha Machines in their backyards, others to their intercontinental radios, while our friend Pablo's open-reel tapes spin slowly as he documents the everyday life of this vast neighborhood.
https://pakapirecords.bandcamp.com/album/un-barrio-demasiado-grande

Live Free 🚀

I honestly didn't expect this one to hit me the way it did.

We wrote it as a tribute for America's 250th — hand-drawn

ink visuals over original country. When the final chorus

came together, it genuinely broke me.

Made with AI tools (full disclosure) but the lyrics and

creative direction are all human. Would love honest

feedback from fellow musicians. Happy 4th 🇺🇸

Genuine altered states achieved through repetition—reminiscent of a car or bus ride, or perhaps just grooves filtered through effects pedals on Zulu Souvenir’s turntables tapes and turntables.
https://pakapirecords.bandcamp.com/album/car-painters-siblings

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Let me know what you think of my first album. It's been like 13 years of work.
What genre do you think it is? For the life of me, I can't figure it out.