5 Years of Weekly Virtual Mix Tapes- Guest Curator: Patty Pershayla

Made You A Mix

Weekly Virtual Mix Tape: February 20th, 2025

We're celebrating the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Weekly Virtual Mix Tape at Red Chuck Productions!

For nearly half a decade, we've been bringing you collections of great music from near and far, from artists on stages large and small. Now it's time for Justin to step aside and hand over the reins to a few of those artists and friends.

We've got another guest curator, Patty Pershayla, who we just featured on our Michigan Music Mixtape.

Patty PerShayla is already a rarity as a combination singer and bassist, but has established herself as a stand-out performer by meanwhile perching on one leg or strutting the stage in platform heels. She is heard before she is seen, boasting a big voice for a relatively small vessel, and certainly has a lot to say—challenging gender norms, confronting imposter syndrome, processing trauma—and don’t even think about getting on her bad side. 

Patty’s first full-length solo record, SAD GIRL APOCALYPSE: bummer songs and ukulele adventures, is a short detour from the more adventurous, socially charged, electrifying rock she’s known for. SAD GIRL leans more introspective and many of the songs are a periscopic view from her basement bunker (a bedroom which was legally a closet) during the world’s most recent apocalyptic events. In under 30 minutes, listeners may empathetically experience the effects of confusion, betrayal, existential crises, grief, anxiety, substance abuse, childhood trauma, and an unshakeable sense of dread—but there is still space to dance through the tears. SAD GIRL is an experimental record, co-recorded and co-produced by PerShayla and frequent collaborator, Lucas Powell, in their home studio, featuring Patty’s multi-instrumentalism, incredibly versatile voice, devastatingly clever lyrics, and even cover art illustration. Patty promises to hang up her acoustic guitar and return to heavy songs and punk anthems in 2025 when her tears have dried.

We spoke to Patty and her band on Anywhere The Needle Drops last year.

links:

• pattypershayla.com

• pattypershayla.bandcamp.com

• Facebook: @PattyPerShayla

• Instagram: @PattyPerShayla

• YouTube: @PattyPerShayla

The Red Chuck Weekly Virtual Mix Tape playlists are a collection of ten songs I've been listening to this week, crossing genre, era, and taste. No themes, just the tunes I've been sticking in my ears lately.

Available on Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, & YouTube.

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Made You A Mix is a weekly virtual mix tape playlist (available on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, & YouTube) of ten songs I've been listening to this week, crossing genre, era, and taste.