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i'm so charming,

last night i dreamt an eagle swept down and tapped my head and landed on my shoulder, looked closely in my eyes, and flew straight back up to the sky,...

in the days after

in the days after, i write, and i forget. the thoughts regress into mush and i begin to use my phone again. i forget all the things i must do to make the...

tour diary: tour is over

12:31 PM. en route back to new york. okay so i forgot to write this tour diary the past two days. and for that i’m sorry. honestly, all the driving has...

tour diary: blood moon

1:14 PM (FROM yesterday because buttondown glitched on me). a morning filled with broken cameras (dropped when drunk), spilled coffee (slipped when story...

tour diary: people places and things

10:30 AM. last night we played mobile - jonathan’s hometown. it’s always moving to play bandmates’ homes (others: me and jenna - philly, fran & andrew -...

free mahmoud khalil

not a tour diary. 12:20 pm. free mahmoud khalil - don’t have much to say today except that. i’m sure many of you have seen the story of legal resident,...

tour diary: off day, actually

2:59 PM (central time). last night we played in pensacola, florida, at the handle bar - a beautiful bar that combined beach dive bar with small independent...

tour diary: the real tour is the friends we make along the way

11:14 AM. en route to FLORIDA. i know i was sad yesterday - and i was earnestly sobbing in the van listening to queen II and sheer heart attack because how...

Tour diary: music I love you but you’re bringing me down

12:55 pm. first off: thank you for streaming and sharing clean. it really means the world. and thank you to raleigh for last night - it means so much. and...

tour diary: clean is out <3

day 2. it’s 9:29 AM and we’ve been on the road now for only an hour. more importantly, our second single - clean - is out today. you can stream, or even...

tour diary: take off!

okay here’s my not novel seemingly novel idea: a tour diary. maybe it’s because THEY put me on vocal rest and maybe it’s because i’m giving up scrolling...

February 28, 2025

(if you want info on the tour and the new single scroll past this paragraph to the poster and links) it’s the sort of thing that has kept me up at night now...

southeast tour and pre-save CLEAN

February 17, 2025

and just like that - more music and another tour. we cannot believe all the love on 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦 (the song, the video and the shows)… so we are thrilled...

February 7, 2025

what a week, and it’s only friday. thank you guys for all the love on fine, fine, fine (and its video!) so far. it has meant the world to us <3 it feels...

fine, fine, fine out now <3

January 31, 2025

at the stroke of midnight, our first single in 3 years, fine, fine, fine, was released to all streaming everywhere. fran and andrew and i sat in fran’s...

the fine, fine, fine series

January 21, 2025

hi all, back in your inbox with a regularly scheduled email of updates, and then, musings. so, first and most importantly: have you pre-saved fine, fine,...

January 3, 2025

first things first: we’re playing TOMORROW at ELSEWHERE in brooklyn!!! doors are at 6PM and we hit early at 7PM. be there!!! we’re probably not playing new...

December 10, 2024

On principle, I’m not sure what an “album of the year” is. I’m sure there’s an argument for it historiographically that could be decided and debated by those...

a sweet sweet pre-save

December 2, 2024

it has been two months since my last email and i find myself in a similar predicament - on a train, thinking and stewing and announcing finally. after all...

i am but a critic

October 1, 2024

i am not but a critic but i want to be… with our album release schedule being planned (hi january 2025) and our lining up our limited capital reserves to...

September 22, 2024

tour was amazing; tour is over. i mean, it’s been over, i suppose. in my heart i’m still there, in our twelve seater beautiful van, somewhere on i-95,...

fine, fine, fine ! i made an error

August 22, 2024

unheard of me to be in your inbox twice in one day but this is only because 1. i made a mistake and 2. i made a promise… this link to fine, fine, fine should...

omg tour is in one week!!!

August 22, 2024

omg tour is in one week. it’s the only thing on my mind. i wake up in the middle of the night, speaking about tour, jotting down something i’ve forgotten....

green august and a time for actual musings

i woke up delirious (after a mere 5 hours of sleep, sam had a late show and i had an early train) and wondered: why didn’t i begin this newsletter as it...

NORTHEAST TOUR <3 8/28-9/7 <3

HEY FINALLY WE CAN ANNOUNCE … partygirl is going on TOUR!!!! 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝟖/𝟐𝟖 - 𝟗/𝟕 tour poster designed by yours truly (pag) partygirl is...

week #43 BIG THINGS COMING SOON

heyyy there partygirlinas… a quick recap. a quick preview…. friday’s show was AWESOME . queer punk wrestling ?? boylesque ?? incredible. we had so much fun…...

week #40, #41, #42? THE RETURN

hi. it’s been a while. mostly because i (pagona) was hiding out in what we call ‘the motherland’ (greece) for the past ~20 days. my cousins and i (maybe 20+...

week #39 THE BROADWAY

alright y’all this is the week. firstly, we actually finished mixes last week!!! songs are sent to mastering!!! hell yeah, to all, especially producer...

week #38 i'm enjoying keeping these short

i’m enjoying keeping these short for my own sanity. i hope things will calm down and i can write a proper news letter one day. first, merch 4 change sold our...

week #37 merch 4 change & arlene's

short, straight to the point. two things, really. partygirl joined pop music fever dream, talon, angel hair no. 12, and crush fund to organize merch 4...

week #36 may day, workers & students for palestine

can’t really say much today… woke up devastated and angry due to NYPD brutally invading columbia and attacking its students and faculty and protestors last...

i’ll keep it sweet and pithy - i’m on vacation in northern california (sort of) this week (still working remotely) and we’re still working on mixing the...

week #34 a sneak peak. and may announcements

howdy. you've been patient our dear subscribers. and for that as a thank you i want to first and foremost share a mix from our dear album. for your eyes...

week #33: for anyone who was unclear we are still mixing and we're playing on saturday

hellooo i realized that i basically stopped telling you all that we're still mixing the album because it got repetitive, boring, inevitable. but that's the...

week #32 on air and in basement

!!!! hello !!!! what a week(end). what a few week(end)s coming right up. i'll keep it short & sweet, in a list format. upcoming shows sunday, april 7: we are...

week #31 radiogirl

hey there, it's me again, in your inbox, with another week of partygirl updates. we are THRILLED to announce: that we are making our radio debut sunday april...

week #30 - unplugged-girl

helloooo partygirlies, weekly updates? hell yeah... firstly last friday's show at brooklyn made with icons thesaurus rex, tula vera, and dallas wax...

week #29 celebration and back to brooklyn

hii partygirlies, we're back what a weekend it was... we spent wednesday-saturday at the new colossus festival seeing some of our favorite local bands and...

week #28: festival girl, for the first time

hiii partygirlies we're back in your inbox for a very, very important (read: exhausting week). i'm excited for two reasons.... 1. fran in her mixing...

February 29, 2024

hi, email was delayed due to illness that i had contracted earlier in the week but! i'm back and better than ever. happy leap day to all!!! last week we...

week #26 BRRR its cold out there

February 20, 2024

hello hello! another week in partygirl-land. fran's mixing, we're plotting, and boy are we playing: wed february 21, 2024: TRANS PECOS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21...

February 12, 2024

helllo dearest friends and fans and friend-fans, another classically we're mixing and cooking email. another reminder of our upcoming shows: wed february 21,...

February 6, 2024

hello dear subscribers, oh yes, another week another email and more mixing ......... life is getting a wee bit repetitive i suppose. while we're cooking and...

January 29, 2024

helloooooooo party people, and just like that, we are BACK. two shows last week, two amazing shows, and boy does it feel good to touch a stage, lose some...

week #17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

January 22, 2024

hello dear subscribers, okay so yes, we took a 5 week hiatus from emails. it was the holidays! and the new year! (happy new year and happy holidays to all!)...

week #16: vocals are edited, holidays begin?

December 18, 2023

hello!! from our weekly album update: the VOCALS are finally edited. only took, what was it, 2 hours of fran and pagona editing per 3 minutes of recorded...

week #14 mixing the beginning

December 3, 2023

hello hello! big news this week. we announced that we are RETURNING TO PHILADELPHIA saturday, january 27, at philaMOCA with the carraways and the angies. we...

week 11, 12, 13: holiday hiatus, the return, and more

November 26, 2023

i need to get better at the regularity of these emails. make it into a sort of weekly ritual. only as i sit across from joey going over our strategic plan...

week#10 halloween rocktacular

October 31, 2023

hello! and happy halloween halloweekend was pretty epic here at partygirl HQ - being pagona's birthday and all - it did mean a lot of partying (dive bars,...

week #7, 8, 9 : big times we had

October 22, 2023

hi hi hi yes, it's a been a while. and that's because we left the mortal world to go into the STUDIO!!!!! and it was amazing. we did, in fact, record an...

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