The Mail Manipulators 💌

It’s election/freak season, and The Mail Manipulators have music to release. Expect to see a new single for “jets are too loud!!!!” and our debut EP, out early this November. Thanks for being here, stay tuned 🫵🏼🚨

Some snippets from our @gammaraybar set, 8/15 Thank you for having us, great to hang with and enjoy @histoblam ’s music and thank you to @clean_room for rockin hard and to @flying_low_skateshop for booking us !!! What a bill!!! You missed out if you weren’t there fool!!

Showtime! This is a special one, so I hope you all can make it out! Show starts at 7pm, and done by 10! 18+, all ages with a parent/guardian. Come enjoy some amazing music thanks to @ddddangit , @mailmanipulators , @slick.msn.wi , @gallonofred and help raise funds for @madisonbikes in memory of Sasha Rosen!

Cardinal Bar. Sunday April 12. Mail Manipulators.

Excited to head north this Sunday to rock out with @smartshoppersband @supermodifiedband and @sensor.ghost ! Catch this at @gbufo.museum and take us to your leader or whatever 👍🏼

ROAD GIG! We're headed to Green Bay March 8th for an evening of all ages mayhem with @sensor.ghost @mailmanipulators and @smartshoppersband See ya there, Green Bay! Can't wait to unleash our Full Vessel Purge on GBUFO.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. Bonehead at Mickey’s, opening for The Lobotomites (Rockford) + The Mail Manipulators. New songs, old friends. FEB 07 • 10PM Madison WI

Madison. We’re running it back one more time, and I have it on good authority that Santa Claus WILL BE THERE. Be there 12/23/25

Jump In the Lake music video ⚠️☣️ Directed/animated by ​⁠ @shramptv Recorded/mixed by Shannon Connor Vox/guitar: Cal Pocernich Bass: Shelby Len Drum: Luis Acosta Jr. Story idea: Luis Acosta Jr. YouTube link in bio 🫂 what i found when i goggled ‘crazy lake facts’: “Once formed, lakes do not stay the same. Like people, they go through different life stages—youth, maturity, old age, and death. All lakes are either open or closed. If water leaves a lake by a river or other outlet, it is open. All freshwater lakes are open. If water only leaves a lake by evaporation, the lake is closed. Closed lakes usually become saline (salty). This is because as the water evaporates, it leaves behind solids—mostly salts. Like oceans, lakes naturally stratify, forming layers of warmer water above, and cooler water layers below. But too much lake stratification isn’t a good thing, limiting mixing, which allows oxygen to reaches below and cooler water temps to reaching the upper layers for reliant aquatic species. Weather like wind and rain, as well as water flow from tributaries that’s needed to mitigate lake stratification are being impacted by climate change, leaving lakes’ ecosystems high and dry, literally sometimes. The Great Salt Lake, in the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest saline lake in North America. The lowest lake in the world is the Dead Sea. The surface level is 418 m below sea level. The highest lake in the world is the crater lake of Ojos del Salado, on the border of Chile and Argentina at 6,390 m above sea level. The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, it is 1,637 m at its deepest point. The longest lake in the world is Lake Tanganyika in Africa at 660 km and it is also the second deepest lake. The Great Lakes shared by the US and Canada include 5 lakes and contain around 21% of the world’s freshwater supply. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes and has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in the world at 82,000 km². Finland has the nickname ‘Land of the Thousand Lakes’ as there are over 187,000 lakes in the country. But Canada has Finland beat, with almost 2 million lakes.”

see/saw presents a GHOULISH NIGHT OF PUNK MUSIC @smartshoppersband 😈 @nightfreakchicago 😈 @mailmanipulators 10/17 @liveatleonas Eau Claire, 18+, $10 Come out unless you’re AFRAID 🎃 of how SPOOKY 🕸️ this GHOULISH 👻 punk show is going to be 🧛‍♂️ (and if you are scared DM one of us and we’ll protect you from the ghost punks) thx @tylrnckll for the flyer

As those of you who attended our last shows may have heard, the Mail Manipulators are entering a semi-hiatus with Cal moving to Chicago. This doesn’t mean we’re done; we’re playing a show in Eau Claire next month and we’ll be releasing our second EP later this year. However, it does mean that we’ll be selectively booking shows in Madison for the time being, and eagerly booking shows in Chicago and Milwaukee. Chicago bands: we would love to get in touch. Rock and roll will never die. The Mail Manipulators will never die.

Adding another type of post here - Reflecting on the last month of releases I’ve shared out and picking out a few that have been stuck in my head ever since. This is just my personal taste - There’s been so many fantastic projects put out and they all deserve the world 🫶 August Selects Featured Single: Seaworld by @dicotband Featured EP: The Mail Manipulators by @mailmanipulators Featured Album: Lifer by @quokkaband