Flexing – Modern Discipline

Howdy amigos! I’m super excited to be releasing the upcoming Flexing cassette, Modern Discipline. Flexing is a dark, aggressive, political post-punk band from Corvallis, Oregon. Fans of Fugazi or This Is My Fist will surely dig this record. Check out the bandcamp stream below and pre-order a copy here. This is a split release with the homies at Secret Pennies Records.

Flexing will be touring this summer in support of the tape. Dates below:

August 6th

Phat ‘n’ Phunky Audio Journal, Episode 1

Hi friends, I’m excited to share the first of what will hopefully be a series of recorded conversations between all sorts of interesting folks in the PNP phamily and our periphery.

This episode we have Kyle Pellet, an artist & designer from San Jose, CA, and he is joined in conversation by outsider musician Hank Richardson from Portland, OR. The two began collaborating in the early 2010′s and their defiantly grimy & weird aesthetic makes being pretentious fun again. Both are extremely prolific & driven to create, and have eschewed the slick, boring homogenization of post-pinterest & playlist culture.

Richardson makes tough post-punk with his project Speedway, and channels the timeless melancholy of early rock & roll with the latest album under his own name, When Things Happen In Your Life. He also developed & published the RPG Outworlder, inspired by the film, Krull, and released to coincide with the film’s 35th anniversary in 2018.

On top of the artwork for Richardson’s many releases, Pellet’s artwork has graced the covers of Joyce Manor records and the menus of Portland, ME pho restaurant, CO?NG TU?? BO??T. This year he published World’s Edge, a 2019 calendar/print combo, and a book of his art, Wonkyvision, was published by Valley Cruise Press in 2015.

Breakfast in Silence / Calendar Year split tape

Breakfast in Silence

New from the Phat ‘n’ Phunky Phamily, we have 8-songs of nice people punk rock from SLC and NYC. Breakfast in Silence play moody, stark post-punk, contrasted with Calendar Year

Mars Is Heaven

DAWGS! The most underrated songwriter of his generation, MORGAN HERRELL (of Hard Girls, Pteradon and I Sing The Body Electric!), has released a new album of stellar tunes (pun not intended but appropriate). Morgan’s music turns the mundane into the magical, extracting beauty from the minutiae of common life and singing it sweetly back to us. I sincerely hope you’ll sit down with these tunes and enjoy them as I have.

Never Say Goodbye: Joyce Manor’s Barry Johnson Branches Out But Doesn’t Forget His Roots

By Bob Vielma

In the mid-late 2000

Hecka Halloween

New, obnoxious halloween mix for all you PNP heads out there! Enjoy, eat hecka candy, and be safe!

Punk + Guy Fieri

Hi friends! The Rafa’s Tacos Mixtape is out now! Mailorder here, or listen above on bandcamp or on spotify here.

Rafa’s Tacos Mixtape 9/21/2018

Friends from Northern California, Southern California, Arizona, and Japan come together to rock in honor of our favorite taquero, Rafa’s Tacos. All profits from this project to be donated to the American Diabetes Association. Preview the A-Side tracks in the video above.

FUSS

Howdy! Here’s a demo from a new band in the PNP phamily: FUSS! Enjoy! First show July 4 @ Rick’s House in San Pedro.

DISTRO UPDATE

Sup foos! I added a few new distro items from Gezan, Speedway, and WAS in to the mailorder section. It’s a pretty strange cross section of styles, but hopefully some of you weirdos will enjoy the music!