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@Perennialband

Perennial

2 months

We are absolutely thrilled to announce our new album, ‘Art History’! ( @ejrc @SafeSuburban @totallyrealrecs ) You can stream the first single, “Action Painting” & preorder the album on CD, cassette & exclusive clear/green/black splatter vinyl on our Bandcamp

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@Perennialband

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1 year

The perfect DIY show set length is 20-25 minutes.

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3 months

Accidentally said “The Blood Brothers” when I meant “The Blues Brothers” and now all I can think about is a musical road comedy about The Blood Brothers getting back together.

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1 year

@JahHills Is this cheating?

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@Perennialband

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1 year

Spotify pays $.04 per stream (thus 1,000 streams would net you $4). Bandcamp has a monthly promotion that actually encourages listeners to buy music by waving their fees on artist sales. We’ve made more money from our art on each Bandcamp Friday than we’ll *ever* see from Spotify

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9 months

DIY-specific: - 30 minute sets please! (an exception would be a touring act headliner or a release show) - local bands should close & open. Stop making touring bands do this - the shows would be more successful if all the bands committed to promoting them a bit more

@consequence

CONSEQUENCE

9 months

What opinion about live music will have you like this?

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3 months

Literally one (1) good Bandcamp Friday nets us more as a band (and thus helps us make records, get to shows, repair gear) than multiple *years* of Spotify income.

@Perennialband

Perennial

3 months

As always: fuck Spotify, buy physical media.

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1 year

Summer post-hardcore: Fugazi Autumn post-hardcore: Braid Winter post-hardcore: Unwound Spring post-hardcore: Q and Not U

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Perennial

1 year

I can’t explain it but Fugazi is a summer band

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@Perennialband

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2 years

The truth is, for a band like us, who put out our album ourselves, who paid for all of it ourselves, who book our own shows, shoot our own press photos, make our own flyers, design our own merch & art, we owe so much to the kindness of folks who share our art. A thread:

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@Perennialband

Perennial

3 months

Perennial fans! Please welcome Ceej to Perennial! Ceej is a brilliant drummer and a wonderful person and we are so incredibly thrilled to have them officially joining the band!

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@Perennialband

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3 months

As always: fuck Spotify, buy physical media.

@UMAW_

United Musicians and Allied Workers

3 months

As of April 1st, Spotify has demonetized any track on the platform that receives less than 1000 streams per year. That’s an estimated 86% of tracks on the platform. This new policy will impact small artists the most — the same artists that Spotify claims to support.

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4 months

VOLUME UP for “Art History”, the first track from our new flexi EP ‘Lemon On Plastic’ available now via @ejrc Stream the full EP & preorder here:

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@Perennialband

Perennial

3 months

I see lots of folks who are heavy / curvy like me in the crowd, but I wish I saw y’all on stage too. Don’t let the mean spirits of empty people dissuade you from sharing your art and from owning that goddamn stage. We need it.

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@Perennialband

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1 year

Bands & artists: What are the four records that inspire/shape/influence what you’re doing today. Not necessarily the stuff that initially made you start your project, but what’s currently got you excited to make stuff: Us:

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@Perennialband

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1 year

Amen. One thing I truly hope disappears with our generations is the grotesque belief that you should just give up all the things you love when you hit some arbitrary number of years. Start a band, read a comic book, build LEGOs, play video games. It’s *your* life friends.

@aplaceforowls

A Place For Owls

1 year

I think more people in their 30s and 40s should start bands and write songs and record albums

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@Perennialband

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2 months

Perennial fans! We’re so excited to announce our new album, ‘Art History’. It’s my favorite thing we’ve ever done & the album we’ve always dreamed of making. Stream the first single, “Action Painting”, and preorder the newest Perennial Sound here:

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8 months

This has been said more articulately and concretely by smarter folks than I, but we need a space/outlet owned and operated by writers and artists. My heart breaks for the Bandcamp staff who have been unceremoniously laid off by these feckless capitalist assholes.

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1 year

CDs are good. They’re portable and compact (it’s right there in the name!) and you can leave them in your car and they have the highest profit-margin for DIY bands. I like CDs.

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@Perennialband

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1 year

1 full stream of your album on Bandcamp = 1,000 Spotify streams

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@Perennialband

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15 days

This was the single most amazing day I’ve ever experienced as an artist. Thank you all so much. Perennial loves you.

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4 months

@danozzi

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5 months

Hey Night Owls, You get to hear this first: We’ve officially submitted our third full-length album for mastering.

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@Perennialband

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2 months

WATCH: Perennial - “Action Painting” (Official Video)

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@Perennialband

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3 months

You know that thing where a band puts out an experimental, mostly-ambient four song EP and then a little while after that they put out a full length that’s basically an all-you-can-eat sundae bar of riffs and hooks?

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@Perennialband

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1 month

Also, Perennial

@RollingStone

Rolling Stone

2 months

Albums are getting shorter (finally!) Thank you, @DUALIPA and @billieeilish . More:

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@Perennialband

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1 year

The Leaves of Autumn Symmetry! A new 7” / Digital EP featuring five reworked & reimagined songs from Perennial’s first album. Available for preorder at @Bandcamp : Recorded & co-produced by Chris Teti. Listen to “Dissolver” now:

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@Perennialband

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3 months

Say hello to the newest addition to the Perennial Sound

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1 year

Being in a band means routinely writing and sending some of the most heartfelt, earnest emails of your life and mostly receiving emails from Michael’s because you bought a frame there once.

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@Perennialband

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7 months

The longer you make records, the more inspiring and encouraging bands like Yo La Tengo & Superchunk & Spoon & Sleater-Kinney are. You can keep making stuff. The next album can be the next time you swing for the fences all over again. Each new batch of songs can be your best yet.

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@Perennialband

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2 years

Buy physical media. Is there a movie you like that is offered “permanently” on a streaming service? Buy a dvd of it. Got a favorite album you listen to all the time on Spotify? Track down a cheap used CD copy. There is no guarantee this stuff will stay available in streaming form

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@Perennialband

Perennial

11 months

Honestly, I’m just compelled by bands that are in earnest about making the stuff they want to make, that have an idea & are going for it. That will always translate for the audience: caring. Pretending it doesn’t matter, feigning ironic apathy, etc… what a bore that is.

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@Perennialband

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1 year

We play about 60 shows a year, which means we watch about 150 sets a year, & I can say the sets that draw the audiences in the most, that work the best for the overall show, are under 30 minutes. It’s better for the audience’s ears and feet; better for the other bands etc

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@Perennialband

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3 months

She made it; two cross-country flights

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7 months

No one at Thanksgiving dinner knows my band was on Stereogum

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@Perennialband

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1 month

Who wants to join? Announcing something fun very soon.

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@Perennialband

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2 years

Any Boston bands wanna play a show outside a record store on 5/21 in Allston? Looking for a couple locals for the bill.

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1 year

Give me all of that eccentric 1960s stereo mixing. Bass and tambourine in one headphone, literally everything else in the other headphone? You bet! The vocals suddenly going from right to left channels for no apparent reason? Absolutely!

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@Perennialband

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2 years

Trying to do one of the hardest things a band can do (book a DIY show in Western Massachusetts)

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@Perennialband

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8 months

I just want to underline how special & vital @SMALLALBUMS is. The originality of their writing, the commitment to finding & sharing new stuff (which is incredibly labor intensive & time consuming), the very cool aesthetics of their site. We’re very very lucky to have them.

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1 year

❤️Bands that mention all the other bands on the bill during their set❤️

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4 months

Thank you everyone for your kind responses, for sharing the new single & EP, for buying records and for being wonderful. This was one of the best days we’ve ever had as a band. Perennial loves you.

@Perennialband

Perennial

4 months

VOLUME UP for “Art History”, the first track from our new flexi EP ‘Lemon On Plastic’ available now via @ejrc Stream the full EP & preorder here:

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11 months

Incredible mail day courtesy of @TheHives !

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10 months

VOLUME UP! “Hippolyta!”, the newest single from our upcoming EP/7” The Leaves Of Autumn Symmetry. Stream/preorder here:

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9 months

If early-2000s nostalgia is already happening can we at least bring back iPods and Q and Not U?

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@Perennialband

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2 years

Here’s a fun one: Favorite “challenging follow-up to a popular/breakthrough record” Examples: Radiohead - Kid A Nirvana - In Utero Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones The Get Up Kids - On A Wire The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes The Clash - Sandinista!

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1 year

SOUND ON VOLUME UP

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6 months

- Use varispeed to slow down the Mellotron loop - tune the guitar to the Mellotron, since varispeed detunes the loop a bit - record a few different potential guitar phrases - run them backward to see what fits with the Mellotron - enjoy

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@Perennialband

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2 months

Midnight. Tonight.

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@Perennialband

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11 months

Just got rough mixes back. This is the record we always dreamed of making.

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Hey West Coast Perennial fans, Wouldn’t you say you deserve a Perennial tour?

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1 year

Where I learned that the single note can have sharper fangs than the chord:

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@Perennialband

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3 months

Also Perennial

@pitchfork

Pitchfork

3 months

Our list of the 50 most anticipated albums of Spring 2024 ↓

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@Perennialband

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5 years

@danozzi Bright Eyes, “Nothing Gets Crossed Out”: “Yeah Tim I heard your album and it’s better than good / When we get off tour I think we should hang and black out together” (The Good Life ‘Black Out’ reference and bonus wordplay!)

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2 months

One week. Volume up.

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2 months

I promise I did not know we’d be on the @stereogum 5 Best Songs of the Week list with Belle & Sebastian (!!!!) when I tweeted this. So incredibly cool.

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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on...

www.stereogum.com

@Perennialband

Perennial

2 months

Does anyone else have a song dream scenario where you’re magically on a festival bill with that band and you become friends and they ask you to play on that song? Mine’s “I’m A Cuckoo” by Belle & Sebastian

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@Perennialband

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1 year

The “post-hardcore bands getting a bit groovy on their last record” all-star team:

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1 year

Walt Whitman completed his best work at 72. Nick Cave started putting out his best stuff at 46. Charles Dickens wrote his masterpiece at 50. Joan Didion published her finest book at 45. Jimmy Smith was 50 when he recorded his most influential LP. Make your art no matter what.

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10 months

This Barbie likes garage punk

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9 months

True story: Bandcamp sales are how we were able to afford recording LP3, pressing In The Midnight Hour on vinyl without a label, & the entirety of the Leaves Of Autumn Symmetry project (recording/mastering/vinyl pressing). Conversely, we’ve yet to see a single cent from Spotify.

@RosyOverdrive

Rosy Overdrive 🏳️‍⚧️

9 months

No-value-attached question for musicians—assuming you have your music on both, which way have you made more money?

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@Perennialband

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6 months

This is very much where I’m at. Used CDs are still a pretty affordable medium and it’s more or less the only way to make sure you have access to the art you care about in the long term

@FranziaMom

keegan

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i have started collecting CDs again. not because i think they’re aesthetically pleasing or easy to store (they’re not), but because they’re the only physical medium that also has a built in digital copy of the media.

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4 months

if you can hear this picture, we’re friends

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4 months

The New Perennial Sound. February 27.

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@Perennialband

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7 months

Hey year-end list writers: Got some records you ought to keep in mind @minuspointsct @ther_ther_ther @Labrador_tunes @brosaleigh

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@Perennialband

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16 days

Perennial - Art History

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7 months

Shout out to everyone discreetly scrolling through their phone while trying to blend into the wallpaper at their partner’s family’s house today. Stay strong friends.

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@Perennialband

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7 months

We are uniquely qualified to do this

@NME

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7 months

. @TheHives are looking for covers bands to “franchise” live shows: "Let's make business together and rock'n'roll"

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10 months

VOLUME UP! “Dissolver”, live from a tiny basement in Connecticut:

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@Perennialband

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1 year

Audio files for our next release: Approved by vinyl manufacturers Art proofs for cover & labels: Approved The next Perennial release: Officially in production

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@Perennialband

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8 months

We’ve been operating on the “play wherever we can, whenever we can, hope people buy stuff on Bandcamp, ignore Spotify” model and we’re really happy with being in Perennial at this point.

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4 months

Last night’s Final Jeopardy, I kid you not

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4 months

VOLUME UP for “Art History”, the first track from our new flexi EP ‘Lemon On Plastic’ available now via @ejrc Stream the full EP & preorder here:

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@Perennialband

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10 months

Honestly this means the world to us. Bandcamp has always been home for us — the place where we send people to hear our music; the place where we shop for & find new music ourselves. Thank you so much to the folks at @Bandcamp for sharing Perennial.

@Bandcamp

bandcamp

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New & Notable: Five heady, "studio-as-instrument" reworks of tracks from New England outfit @perennialband 's excellent 2017 debut, "The Symmetry of Autumn Leaves."

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1 year

Can I live in the midnight hour? VOLUME UP

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1 year

VOLUME UP! Perennial live in Troy, NY June 2023

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@Perennialband

Perennial

9 months

I’m working on a theory that bands that have at least one Rickenbacker in their gear collection have a very high probability of being awesome: The Beatles, R.E.M., The Jam, The Blood Brothers, The Clash, Against Me!, (International) Noise Conspiracy, Sleater-Kinney, Fugazi, MC5

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@Perennialband

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9 months

Look, it’s not our place to say, but…

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@creemmag

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Who is THE band of 2023?

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@Perennialband

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2 months

Four days.

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@Perennialband

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4 months

Thrilled to announce our new flexi EP, ‘Lemon On Plastic’! Four new sonic adventures in the Perennial Sound, available now via @ejrc . Order your copy and stream lead track “Art History” today!

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Lemon On Plastic EP, by Perennial

4 track album

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@Perennialband

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2 months

Who’s staying up till midnight?

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@Perennialband

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2 months

That was one of the most fun shows we’ve ever played, and it was thanks to y’all Delaware. Thank you for always welcoming us so beautifully.

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1 year

The singers of Perennial? In London?!

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6 months

Step 1: Learn the bassline backwards Step 2: Record the backwards bassline through the fuzz pedal Step 3: Reverse the recorded bassline track in ProTools Step 4: Enjoy

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6 months

Got a couple weeks between final mixes and mastering. Time to get groovy.

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3 months

Forgot to mention: It’s officially Spring, a season where you will hear many new Perennial songs.

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1 year

Netflix? Oh you mean the ‘Seinfeld’ app that also has a bunch of B- movies?

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5 months

‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ but it’s 2024 and Llewyn is hoping to god that someone puts one of his songs in a TikTok

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5 months

‘Amadeus’ but it’s 2024 and Salieri is seething because Mozart keeps getting songs in Taco Bell commercials without even trying

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Everyone should do this at the next Perennial show

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Perennial fans! Please welcome Ceej to Perennial! Ceej is a brilliant drummer and a wonderful person and we are so incredibly thrilled to have them officially joining the band!

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9 months

‘Stop Making Sense’ is a movie about nine people who are as cool, compelling, and charismatic as it is possible to be, filmed by a director who could get dramatically perfect shots in his sleep

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9 months

Got my Diet Mr. Pibb & my Buncha Crunch, about to watch ‘Stop Making Sense’ in IMAX.

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Honestly it was a leap of faith for @jamiecoletta to bring us into the @NOEARBUDS roster in the first place. A garage rock band with electric organ and minute-long songs mostly influenced by bands that your parents are too young to remember. But that’s why Jamie’s the best.

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We are honored to be a part of this amazing show and so honored to be working with @jamiecoletta , who is an absolutely brilliant, incredibly hard-working, tireless advocate for so many artists.

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This is the year Perennial really swings for the fences. If you see us not doing Perennial enough, just say “Hey Perennial, I think you could do Perennial a little bit more”. It’d be a big help.

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1 year

The masters for our next release have been submitted to the vinyl manufacturers.

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3 months

The new Vox is now officially part of the team

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10 months

I think the best art comes from creative ambitions being just a bit ahead of resources/skills. Swinging for the fences, having to improvise to find interesting answers for the stuff you can’t quite figure out at first. ‘Sgt. Pepper’ being recorded in a 4-track studio, etc

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I mean this literally: If you want a digital copy of any of our music and Spotify is your only real option, message/email us and we’ll gladly send you a free download instead.

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7 months

When you see this picture being taken outside of the venue you know you’re about to have a delightful time in the pit

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5 months

Isn’t it crazy how you’re less than a month away from hearing new Perennial?

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7 months

In case you missed it: We’re playing SXSW! We’ll be in Austin the whole week playing as many shows as humanly possible. If you happen to know anyone putting a show together please let us know and thank you in advance!

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10 months

If your music blog is looking for artists to write about how much they love The Blood Brothers, we’re your band

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4 months

Yeah I’m excited for Dune 2… Dune 2 many retweets of all the nice things people are saying about our new EP

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2 months

Our newest single, “Up-tight”, is officially available everywhere you get your sounds. My favorite song we’ve ever recorded: a love letter to the Motown Sound and the fuzzed-out Maximum R&B of Small Faces and The Action.

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