insanely fresh and deeply inspiring. i havenāt gotten sick of running this record front to back over and over.
dream collab honestly but maybe im too fanned out, I went to their NYC show and gave him a burned CD of the album iām working on, spent a ton of time putting stickers and drawings in the liner notes.
Have you ever heard music that evokes a deep personal connection with the artist? iād love to hear about yours. a song you heard and said fuck yes i couldāve made this, I would have made this, like the song is reading your mind.
not out of jealousy that you DIDNT make it, but purely out of inspired admiration.
May 28, 2025
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my friend recommended his song āCarthageā to me a couple years ago and since then, his nameās been on my radar but i never really took the time to properly dive into his discography until tonight. the weather getting cooler here has me craving the lush and warm sonic landscape of guitar music and this album is just what iāve been looking for. itās some of the most magical music iāve heard in a long timeā¦
i also recommend wholeheartedly thanking your friends for music recommendations that you really resonate with, even if you listen to it years after they recommend it, and even if thanking them sounds or seems sappy. recommending music is such a special and sacred thing and i always like to hear when someone connects with something iāve sent them, whether i talk to this person every day or once every few years. sharing music is choosing to love and we should spread that love all around, all the time <3
Sep 6, 2024
dude is going places. if you only know him from his song Naked that blew up on TikTok a few years ago, do yourself a favor and get into the rest of his catalogue. such a unique sound and energy and truly one of the most unapologetically in his own lane artists out there rn.
some favs:
Talk Words
Apocalypse Love Song
The Suburbs
I Want to Be Loved
Things About My Baby
Right Next
Apr 8, 2024
1. I consider this to be his best record, probably due to nostalgia
2. I hung out with him in 2013 and Iāll brag about it forever
3. Yaāll donāt know how much I hold myself back from sharing every song that comes on my shuffle. I am a warrior.
May 26, 2024
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when u manage to land a gig , even if you bomb, hand out custom bottle openers, stickers, or business cards if need be. (preferably the former, something that isnāt easy to throw out. but IS easy to pocket or add to a keyring.) make sure nobody leaves the venue without a piece of you - this method helps me hack my crippling social anxiety. the pretense of a gift or offering acts as a shield in the face of dread and uncertainty, allowing me to approach people in a way which often feels impossible.
this is inevitably not viable for a lot of creatives. you are taking a net loss in the hopes of creating a personally memorable moment for the people in your scene.
you could call it a percbuddy psyop, but i also see it as proactive realness.
May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025
content warning, iāve never talked about this online.
Percbuddy is a chaotic avatar of cathartic self-expression and an intravenous connection to the internet.Ā
āwanna be my perc buddy?ā was a question given to Ethan Cooper by a young woman after a group rehab meeting in 2019, and it was the catalyst for my adoption of the name Percbuddy. I co-opted this name to create a character through which i gained the confidence to experiment with genre and songwriting.
two weeks before i planned to visit him In late 2022, Ethan had his life taken by a fake pill, reduced to a statistic in the nebulous āfentanyl crisisā when we were both 18.Ā
He was a creative beam of light who inspired me endlessly- He gave me the name and was always my biggest supporter. It turned my life upside down, but it also gave so much more weight to Percbuddy and what it represented.Ā
itās difficult to articulate the feeling of the sudden and permanent absence of my best friend. it was a violent rug pull, and i lost all vision of my future.
the desire to completely destroy myself had never been more intense than at this point, but it somehow also never held less power over me. half of me begged to be snuffed out, while the other half clung onto life harder than ever before.
all i can do is live, and hope he can see me wherever he is, which is tough when the brightest light in my life was taken so young, giving me a million reasons to hate whatever higher power would be careless enough to let him die. He had written 3 feature films and a massive collection of short films. He had struggled in the past but was at the healthiest point in his life.Ā
iām truly hoping for an ascension to the 4th dimension when we die, allowing us to move across time as effortlessly as we move through space. I hope Ethan is omniscient, i hope he can read my thoughts, i pray to gods i donāt believe in that Ethan can still hear my music.Ā
Ethan Cooper was stolen from the people who loved him, stolen from a world which could have been a better place with his work in it.
the emptiness he left behind can never be filled. Art and Music are my coping mechanisms , pop music is how i distract myself , and creating through percbuddy is how i keep his memory alive.
May 29, 2025