Totally Real Records

07/06/2024

Art History is out today in all the places!

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING! Art History is out now!!

And Thank you to Ernest Jenning Record Co. and Safe Suburban Home and Totally Real Records for putting out the vinyl (no international shipping UK and EU!) and cassette formats for Art History!!

We have an INCREDIBLE team!

16/04/2024

Welcome to the TRR family, Perennial!

NEW Perennial LP - ART HISTORY coming 6/7/24 on EJRC! 12 Songs. 22 Minutes. This is the record we want from a rock band. East/West Coast tour dates. Tapes = Totally Real Records / UK LPs = Safe Suburban Home / Smartpunk variant too!

Pre-Orders/Streams/First Single:
https://orcd.co/arthistory

Perennial is an art project: Mod pop, post-hardcore, 60s soul, ambient electronic music, midcentury design, abstract expressionism, French New Wave cinema; it’s all collage material for Perennial.

The band — electric organist Chelsey Hahn, guitarist Chad Jewett and drummer Ceej Dioguardi — is equal parts manic basement show bombast and studio-as-instrument headphone listening. To see the New England three-piece in person is to experience a 20-minute burst of kinetic energy: dynamic, reckless, electrifying. To put on one of Perennial’s records is to spend almost the same amount of time with impeccably layered studio-as-instrument punk modernism.

Art History, the band’s newest full-length album (out June 7 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.), finds Perennial further experimenting with their angular cut-and-glue aesthetic. An adventurous 20 minutes of impressionist punk energy, British Invasion guitar pop chic, and Mod-inflected rhythm and noise rave-ups, Art History is both Perennial’s most giddily accessible and most artistically daring record to date.

Perennial On Tour:
4/19 - Cambridge MA, Lizard Lounge with The Collect Pond, Battlemode
4/20 - Amherst MA, Marsh House with Cinema Stare, Minus Points, Radical Joy
4/24 - Holyoke MA, Toritown with Friendly Spectres, Bobbie, Sleep Destroyer
5/3 - Brooklyn NY, The Unruly Collective with Late Slip, Audrey Heartburn
5/4 - Wilmington DE, Arden Concert Gild, with Death By Indie, Mavis the Dog
5/19 - Queens NY, Bar Freda with Dollar Signs & Good Looking Friends
6/7 - Vernon CT, Arts Center East w/ Minus Points, DJ Steady Habits ( ‘Art History’ Release Show)
6/8 - Brooklyn NY, Purgatory with Labrador, better living. (‘Art History’ Release Show)
6/16 - San Francisco CA, The Knockout with FeeFawFum, Vivian Panache, Curling
6/17 - Chico CA, Naked Lounge with Viking Skate Country and TBA
6/18 - Portland OR, Zero Wave with Collate, Chatterbox
6/19 - Olympia WA, Second Home Gigs Show with TBA
6/20 - Seattle WA, The Vera Project with Black Nite Crash, The Dust Mice, Miscomings

10/04/2024

https://youtu.be/J6ZyNvbcF5A?si=29fcGAmvGu7850nr

On April 19th, 2024,police were alerted to a series of small crimes around the downtown •••• area. A high speed chase followed and the suspects mysteriously ...

19/03/2024

🦜 Ilithios LP 2 "Every Bird Ever" [TRR050]
April 16, 2024
Via Totally Real Records
Pt 5 below

01/03/2024

TRR054 is totally real!

yeah fine ok by () features the 1st superdestroyer album, alternative versions of songs, remixes, songs from splits, and instrumentals. Guest starring: @ivahka_glass ! J-card art by and sonic muckery between tracks by EMSO. Full mixtape@on side a, then the whole thing IN REVERSE on side b.

Limited edition of 10 tapes for

08/02/2024

Welcome to the TRR family, Female Gaze!

so excited to announce that in addition to vinyl via ⭐️Tender Futures⭐️ will be available on tape via ♥️♥️♥️

It’s all comin May 17th

Stay tuned 👀

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15/12/2023

TRR047 is totally real!

The supposed final in a never ending series of gloriously shambly lo-fi shed-punk EPs from Dutch (international?!) band is out now.

Mastered by

01/12/2023

Surprise, we're not quite done with new music in 2023 just yet!

On Friday, December 15 we'll release NORA, a new lo-fi digital EP from Netherlands artist , featuring guitars by and mixed by

Today the first single, Turtles, is available on and you can pre-order the EP for

13/10/2023

Real poetry is always about plants and birds and trees and the animals and milk and honey breathing in the pink but real life is behind a screen aka TRR043 by is totally real!

Happy release day to our most extremely online artist, the San Jose, CA-based Katie McTigue, a prolific powerhouse who we suspect might have perfect pitch and a sense of humor to rival the lyrical chops of her heroes (and ours!) Cheekface of course! We didn't know an anti-folk revival was coming but hey maybe here it is. Either way, the album with the longest title we've had to type in a tweet is finally here and while the singles have already been bouncing around in our brains and on the internet for a minute now, we're so excited for you to dive in for the whole album.

Released on very limited edition and way too involved to make more of CDs and tapes.

27/09/2023

welcome TIFFY to the TRR fam! Check out the first single and animated music video for the upcoming album So Serious, out 11/3 from us and Dollhouse Lightning!

"Don't Take it Personally" the lead single off TIFFY's forthcoming album 'So Serious' out Fri 11/3 via Totally Real Records & Dollhouse Lightning. Motion Gra...

13/09/2023

Hey Long Island, we've got a great show for you this weekend at a bowling alley with The Planes New Pollution Kira Metcalf and Beat Radio!

01/09/2023

Today's Bandcamp Friday again, which means it's the best time to grab that tape or vinyl from us that you've been wanting! Links in the comments.

18/08/2023

Liminal Hiss by Onesie is out today! Give it a listen and maybe grab a tape, vinyl, or CD won't ya? If you're local, the party is tonight at The Sultan Room!

10/08/2023

Lyric video for "First Breath After Mask" by The Planes is premiering at Bummer Brews!

With swirling guitar riffs and booming drums, The Planes tackle the heavy feeling of uncertainty on their latest track, “First Breath After Mask.”

09/08/2023

Look At My Records premiere of "Wednesdays" video by Old Man of the Woods x Yfjesse

Old Man Of The Woods (the moniker of Miranda Elliot) and yfjesse (the project of Jesse Gertz) have been itching to collaborate since their mutual appearance on the inaugural Totally Real Records mixtape back in 2021. The contributions of these two PNW-based songwriters to said compilation stood ou

09/08/2023

Bands Do BK premiere of "Another Day In The Experiment" by Onesie!

Shot in Coney Island, the video for the band’s latest single—off their forthcoming album ‘Liminal Hiss’—”looks at the long term of being an American” and being torn be…

27/07/2023

Announcing TRR044 - Dark Matter Recycling Co from - a Co-release with coming this September. First single "Thrift Store" is out today with a video and you can get that vinyl pre-order in too.

26/07/2023

Live / Laugh / Love is a song by Pacing. There is a music video for it. You're welcome.

Stream Live / Laugh / Love:https://streamlink.to/livelaughloveFollow Pacing:www.pacingmusic.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pacingmusic/Twitter: http...

26/07/2023

26/07/2023

"The gentle lo-fi songs on the latest phoneswithchords LP develop their granular sketches of childhood and coming of age into full portraits."

- Bandcamp new & notable on somebody had to, released 7/14/23

26/07/2023

surprise! there's a new collaborative track from Old Man of the Woods and yfjesse out today!

10/07/2023

New video for Onesie's "Anemone In Lemonade" over at The Deli Magazine if you didn't catch it yet!

Photo by Mike Petzinger Even though Onesie began as a name songwriter Ben Haberland used for the desktop file folder holding a clutch of new solo song demos he’d recorded well before teaming up with drummer Josh Inman and bassist Rob Lanterman, the name has stuck since the band’s initial format...

30/06/2023

TRR039 is totally real!

Happy big release day to Tim Lannen with his new album Collarbone, out everywhere digitally and available on tape and vinyl at Bandcamp and from Tim at shows.

Thank you to Beat Radio for bringing Tim into our world and helping to make this all happen! Each record and tape comes with a tiny wading Tim (aka Tim Wades) sticker. If you put one up somewhere fun send us a photo!

30/05/2023

The secret's out... we'll be releasing the new Onesie record later this Summer! Check out the amazing lyric/music video for the first single over at Merry-Go-Round Magazine!

The Yaka Ertugrual directed video for Onesie's "What You Kill" merges the uncanny sadness of the digital and analog worlds colliding.

28/04/2023

We just released a super limited edition of DIY CDs for the Snake Facts EP by Pacing. Head over here fast if you want one!

3 track album

28/04/2023

It was fun to talk about this record after a little time since the release!

Real Love has been out for 6 months! Grateful for the chance to talk with Stereoactive Media and Totally Real Records about the process of releasing the LP. We talked some inside baseball on what it’s like to independently put a record out now, and I revealed how I am always trying to make an album that is made up almost entirely of monster singles, in the tradition of Hysteria by Def Leppard or Kick by INXS. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4htdmgQzm5bKPvgn9eMVNW?si=l4jnPrCQTYmIg7GFr0wXOg

19/04/2023

New music video for "You Never Learned How To Learn" from Tim Lannen's upcoming record is out today! https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR2-5jwT7mfBvvS0f_ZW-NALPFqFdo5f50sS-mvPVEwQapn1kb_bbW2ZN4c&v=etEZNVN6PsE&feature=youtu.be&mibextid=Zxz2cZ

Videography by Catherine. Direction and editing by Tim Lannen. Song Performance by Tim Lannen. Produced by Philip A. Jiminez, and written by Tim Lannen.Featu...