At Tucson Zine Fest last month, I reissued Volumes 1-4 of the TESTIMONY zine series! They are now all available on the Related Records website for $6.66 each!

Each zine features 8-9 different artist contributions from all different religious and artistic backgrounds.
Including (but not limited to):
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Dorian Wood // Celleste Murtagh // Tyler Jacobs // Vishinna Crowsmith (of FATTY CAKES AND THE PUFF PASTRIES) // Nicholas B. Jacobsen // Jonathan Lees // Bentley Monet (of SNAILMATE) // Connor Descheemaker // Peter Kulikowski (of DINOSAUR LOVE) // Shamika Moore // Mark Amura (of BARRY and MY EXECUIVE DYSFUNCTION) // Drew Danburry (of THE FUNNY UNCLES) // Shawnte Orion // Lonna Kelley // Alex Halaszyn 

I still haven't gotten to work on Volume 5 outside of receiving a handful of submissions. So if you are interested in contributing to the next issue, you got time!
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Just send me an email or message me on Instagram.

You should come to the Phoenix Quintron & Miss Pussycat show! It will be the second ever BANANA FEST! The first one happened in 2009 (holy shit that was 17 years ago!) with QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT​, FATHERS DAY and EARTHMEN & STRANGERS

BANANA FEST 2 is featuring Q+P with TREASURE MAMMAL and DJ CRYBABY! It will be hosted by DAISY THE KITTEN and JINGLES THE CAT and the first 50 or so people in the venue will get free banana earrings from Later Operator!
Both shows have/are happening at the Great AZ Puppet Theater which is in an old Mormon church building from 1929!

"In Defense of Cats" is the new 7" by FATTY CAKES & THE PUFF PASTRIES featuring 2 songs - "Cat Nap" and "Mistress 23" is coming out on April 17th!

This has been in the works since 2024 (I actually looked through my old emails to find the first email exchange about this and it was January 24th, 2024! Though I know we talked about it over Instagram + text messages before then, but... yeah, holy shit!) - The band was currently working on a new album and had was scheduled to play with some amazing bands in the upcoming months like BRATMOBILE, THE SPITS and MARK SULTAN BBQ - they were hoping to have something new to sell at these gigs so the plan was to do a limited run of these songs on a 7" lathe since the turnaround on those are much faster than vinyl but the sound quality is not as great and they are much more expense (per unit) to produce. 

After a lot of back and forth on weighing pros and cons and trying to figure out the artwork, time passing by, discussing best timeline for things...etc It was decided to just release it on vinyl sometime in 2025 instead - no rush, since the band was still working on a full length and were taking a break from playing after their show with BRATMOBILE and THE PARANOYDS on May 23rd, 2024.

Then the discussion was like "I don't know when or if we are going to actually finish this full length and we really want to utilize this amazing artwork from our friend CRAIG CALDERWOOD made for it. So I was sent this beautiful artwork that was made by Craig and displayed in an art show they were a part of back in October, 2023 and I was asked to do all the lettering for it. So I spent a couple weeks near the end of 2024 working on that but it still wasn't until July, 2025 that we had everything ordered and paid for to get this 7" made.

There was still no real rush since the band has been on hiatus since 2024. (All the members have been busy with their own creative and fulfilling endeavors in the meantime, they are all so fucking cool) But hopefully the excitement around this new 7" will motivate and inspire them to do more as a band again. 
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Pre-orders are available now on the Related Records website and on the bands bandcamp page.

QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT​ are touring the West Coast again and I am so excited about it! They are playing so many of their favorite familiar spots and with so many of their old friends and these shows are simply not to be missed!

Go to as many as you can!

You should check out TUCSON ZINE FEST! Saturday, March 28th from 10am - 4pm at the Steinfeld Warehouse (101 W 6th St #100, Tucson, AZ 85701) RELATED RECORDS will be there with a table full of vinyl, tapes, cds, stickers, buttons and of course ZINES​! (hopefully 1-2 new ones by then too!) along with SHAWNTE ORION who has a split 7" with SWEAT LODGE that recently sold out on Related Records (though I believe he still has some copies) and runs a poetry zine pressing company called RINKY DINK PRESS that will have a table at this same fest (hopefully close to the Related Records table so we can hang out all day together!)

I also wanted to share that there is still a handful of Riley Mix CD​ available. Enjoy a mix CD of songs that make me miss my dog that passed away in November - mostly, weirdo, sadboi, music.

There is a new compilation that came out yesterday called "Recherché"​ - it includes 16-22 unreleased (and soon to be released) recordings from artists in the Related Records Family. It is available on limited edition cassettes (and might come out on CD later down the line) and all copies come with a free download code of all 22 tracks.

I listed a bunch of zines that I recently took out of my personal collection at the prices I paid for them (or less). Below are just a handful, but you can see all of them here.

​I am booking the Phoenix date and will be there selling records and tapes all night. ALSO any pre-orders of the new Tabor Mountain "Twilight Apologies" LP will get one of the show posters as well!

​Welcome the newest member of the Related Records family, MY EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION!

My Executive Dysfunction is the solo project of Mark Amura (formerly of BARRY and SHARING IS CARING)

Mark makes the funnest + catchiest British pop music ever! The new self titled EP is going to be out on cassette and streaming platforms on May 3rd.

In the meantime we got a handful of singles we’re releasing before then to get you hyped about it. First single is “The Sun Comes Up” which is currently available for streaming on all platforms

RIYL: poppy + beautiful songs by Blur, The Pet Shop Boys, Biz, George Michael or dancing + singing for your pets when you’re home alone.

In February 2022 Quintron & Miss Pussycat released this amazing single from their alter ego project called Bobby M.G. called "Mardi Gras Creep" - Then about a month ago they released it independently on a limited edition 7" and they sold out within a couple days, but I got a handful of copies to distro. 

Aside from that Bobby M.G. 7" there is nothing "new" but I did get some copies of these records back in stock that were previously sold out.

In May of 2023 Related Records is going to be celebrating 10 years of being a record label! WOW! I know! incredible right?! I almost didn't make it! But this year I got a bunch of stuff planned and hopefully, all of these things happen! Anyway, here's this years tentative release schedule..

I listed a bunch of Test Presses for you obsessive vinyl collecting weirdos.

​Come to this show on October 15th!

I haven't played a show in front of a live audience since February, 2020. I am 90% positive I will be playing this show with Eichlers, Dynastic and Spicy Mayo this sunday though. Either opening or closing the show. I practiced today in the car while I was running errands and I feel pretty good about it. If I do perform, I will be wearing a mask because I am still very very scared of getting COVID-19. If you come to the show please plan on wearing a mask too.

This summer in Phoenix has been the hottest summer in recorded history. We are averaging over 110 every day and the city is not really doing anything to help the unhoused population here. In fact they have done a ton of stuff to make it harder for these people to survive. That is why working with and for mututal aid groups is so important. My favorite local group is unshelteredPHX.
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Here is a link to their venmo and gofundme if you want to make a donation

Here is a form you can fill out, if you want to volunteer with them.

I know amazon is garbage BUT if you are someone who uses Amazon and wants to order something off their wishlist to help the people who run this and the people they are assisting. Click here and order something! Or pick it up somewhere else and deliver it to them.
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Or you can also order a "Heat Is Murder" t-shirt from Related Records and 100% of the money from these shirts goes directly to them.

If you are unfamiliar with Fatty Cakes & The Puff Pastries... where have you been? It is the band that dreams are made of, queer, multi-racial, body positive, ACAB, punk band ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!! I have been courting this group for a couple of years now, hoping some day they would want to work with me and a couple months ago they hit me up "Hey we are almost sold out of our self titled LP and we are about to go on tour, would you be able/interested in doing a run of tapes for us?" I replied immediately "YES!" and put in an order for 100 tapes to be made that same week. These don't officially come out until July 22nd, But since they came a few weeks early, I am going to start shipping them out early... like probably next week.

Episode 12 of The Best Friends Podcast features one of our all time favorite artist/musician/puppeteer - Panacea Theriac a.k.a. Miss Pussycat! Sadly we had a few technical difficulties and some of our conversation was lost but we still had a LOT to talk about! Miss Pussycat tells us about her time here in AZ working at Arcosanti, being a part of ‘titRex - a miniature Mardi Gras parade, and what it’s like being a traveling artist, making friends all over the world! We also spend a chunk of time geeking out on how much we love Miss Pussycat and how she ended up on our radar. Quintron​ also makes an appearance and to his dismay, Miss Pussycat shares their love story with us!

​Here are some nearly sold out items. (meaning there are less than 4 copies left.)