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11/11/2025

Let’s all with birthday to Leah from !

11/11/2025

Listen to the song “After Image” from Ash Souvenir, the collaborative album from Ragana and Drowse, out this Friday. Only available on The Flenser’s YouTube channel.

Ash Souvenir is available for pre-orders at nowflensing.com

10/11/2025

Ragana and Drowse’s collaborative album Ash Souvenir is out this Friday. Listen to the song “After Image,” available now only on The Flenser’s YouTube channel and streamable everywhere this Friday.

Ragana and Drowse will perform Ash Souvenir live in January:
Jan 9 - Olympia - the Crypt
Jan 10 - Seattle - Substation -
Jan 11 - Portland - Polaris Hall
Tickets on sale now!

“After Image is a song about how self-perception is often linked to place: I tend to want to designate eras of my life around places that I have lived and think of aspects of myself as coming from or belonging to those places. It is also about the desire to forget memories associated with these places. The reality is that, although we may be able to physically move from a place and ‘move on’ from a person or event, those various aspects of ourselves, and our memories of the events that created them, all make up a greater whole. There is no moving away from the self. We may forget a specific event, but it has still permanently adjusted the shape of our life. In gestalt psychology the ‘parts,’ are defined by the whole, not the other way around: the dark plume of an eruption is made of thousands of fragments of ash, yet we view it as a single giant clouded form.” - Kyle Bates (Drowse)

08/11/2025

Have a Nice Life’s third full-length Sea of Worry was released six years ago today.

06/11/2025

Chat Pile’s magnificent live record ‘Live at Roadburn 2023’ is up for order now from The Flenser store.

Formats include seaweed colored vinyl, black vinyl, CD, and cassette.

A raw and unrelenting live album on vinyl.
3,000 people. Total annihilation.

Their first European performance. Their biggest crowd until that date.

A pivotal moment for Chat Pile, captured live and remixed by Jared Stimpfl.

nowflensing.com

05/11/2025

Mamaleek playing their second ever live show on July 16th, 2019 at Elbo Room Jack London in Oakland. RIP Eric.

04/11/2025

Ash Souvenir, the collaborative album from Ragana and Drowse will be out next week.

“Ash Souvenir features expert blast beats from Noel beneath layers of Ebowed guitars and tremolo picking. Although black metal was one of my first musical loves, Noel’s playing allowed me to compose a passage with specific blast beats in mind for the first time ever under the name Drowse. It’s difficult to properly express in words how special it felt to work on this album with those two.” - Kyle Bates (Drowse)

Pre-order the vinyl, tape, and merch are available at nowflensing.com

31/10/2025

It’s Halloween 🎃

31/10/2025

Chat Pile and Hayden Pedigo’s In The Earth Again is out today. Experience this haunting portrait of collapse and rural stillness. There is nothing like this record.

nowflensing.com

30/10/2025

“I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them”

Don’t miss Agriculture on Halloween in Saxapahaw, NC with Boris.

Oct 31 Saxapahaw, NC — Haw River Ballroom $
Nov 01 Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore $
Nov 02 Philadelphia, PA — Union Transfer $
Nov 04 Louisville, KY — Zanzabar
Nov 06 Oklahoma City, OK — 89th Street
Nov 08 Albuquerque, NM — Launchpad
Nov 09 Phoenix, AZ — Valley Bar
Nov 11 Denver, CO — Hi-Dive
Nov 13 Salt Lake City, UT — The State Room
Nov 14 Boise, ID — Neurolux
Nov 16 Seattle, WA — Madame Lou’s
Nov 18 Vancouver, BC — Fox Cabaret
Nov 19 Portland, OR — Mississippi Studios
Nov 21 Sacramento, CA — Cafe Colonial
Nov 22 San Francisco, CA — The Chapel
Dec 04 San Diego, CA — Soda Bar
Dec 05 Los Angeles, CA — Lodge Room
$ with Boris

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29/10/2025

Agriculture featured on Guitar World.

Ahead of the quartet’s US tour, guitarist Dan Meyer, guitarist/producer Richard Chowenhill and bassist Leah Levinson discuss the secret behind their prolific work ethic, meeting Joe Satriani and the making of a dream guitar

29/10/2025

Have a Nice Life’s “The Unnatural World” is being released on a new variant, iridescent blue vinyl, now up for pre-order.

Also, the long-requested “The Unnatural World” shirts are available for the first time, featuring the classic design from the album that began Have a Nice Life’s relationship with The Flenser.

Available at nowflensing.com.

Photo: .memoir