Z Berg

Do you like fun? Joy? Old friends? Dancing? Ibiza? HBO’s hit show The Pit? Rooney from the early 2000’s? Music that sounds like the exact opposite of the kind of music I generally make? Well here’s a song for you! My old pal @nedbrower has a new project called @bloodwerk_official and I lent a little rasp to this here banger. Perhaps this is your new soundtrack to The End Of The World: Part 27™️! 📸 by another one of my oldest and dopest pals @vinnawinna

Backstage at the last picture show with the gang. Hope to see you again if any of us survives this. Beautiful 📸’s by @chronicappeal

Feels a bit like a dream now. Thank god @jacobspreng was there to prove it happened for real.

Two weeks to go until we meet again… Z Berg and Friends: Star Crossed Lovers- Saint Valentine’s Day Ball featuring @officialsarahmclachlan , @thisistherealryanross , @jakeminch , @wwilly.masonn , @halebofosho , @joeybeaulieukeefe , @dankeyes , @ellebramhall , #KeithCarradine, and THE LIKE aka @tennesseebunny , @anniemonrovia , and @laena________ . And guess what, there are even MORE special guests that I’m going to keep secret for now because I think it might be too much for you to take. So many friends, very old and very new. As always, a little theme dressing is encouraged. It’ll be Valentine’s Day after all. A holiday I’ve never once celebrated in my life until now! The sky may be falling and the groundhog saw his shadow, but still, we ride! When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn’t imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter. From Punxsutawney, it’s Phil Connors. So long.

We. Are. Simply. So…. Back. Sunday, Bloody, Sunday, the 15th of February- Z Berg and Friends: Star Crossed Lovers- Saint Valentine’s Day Ball- FEATURING: @officialsarahmclachlan , @thisistherealryanross , @jakeminch , @wwilly.masonn , @halebofosho , @joeybeaulieukeefe , @dankeyes , @ellebramhall , #keithcarradine, and, for the first time in six hundred years, @tennesseebunny , @anniemonrovia , and @laena________ AKA THE LIKE poppin’ on in for a lil reunion. AND MORE insane surprises I’m not even gonna tell you about yet because how could you even handle it! People are saying it’s OBSCENE, this lineup. “An embarrassment of riches,” says the Chicago Tribune. “What did we do to deserve this?” says The Philadelphia Inquirer. “Does anybody remember laughter?” says Robert Plant. Presented by @sidthecat at the beautiful @sidthecatauditorium . Tickets are already going real fast so if you see this and you’ve been on the fence about pulling the trigger, well, I bet you’re questioning your judgement now. Tix at the link in bio. I love you all.

Tickets for the Z Berg and Friends: Star Crossed Lovers - Saint Valentine’s Day Ball are going fast, so if you’re wearing your flip flops to the Waffle House about this decision, it’s time to pull the trigger and come to the goddang BALL. I’ll announce our very exciting lineup of friends next week, but all I can say is this is gonna be a really good one! Tickets at the link in bio! ❤️

Happy…new year? Too soon to tell I suppose! But here’s some good news if you’re into that sort of thing… February 15th, 2026- Z Berg and Friends: Star Crossed Lovers - Saint Valentine’s Day Ball. (Technically it falls on V-Day’s predecessor, the ancient Roman pagan festival Lupercalia) We’ll sing some love songs. We’ll sing some hate songs. I think we’re supposed to sacrifice a goat, but that might not fly these days. It’ll be a time. At the new @sidthecatauditorium which is the greatest place I’ve ever been. Presented by @sidthecat . Buy your tickets now! Link in bio.

Head on down to ENJOYTHERIDERECORDS.COM to get your hands on the long awaited anniversary vinyl re-release of Release Me! Out now! Thank you to @Michele__kaufman or making this happen! 15 years ago @Tennesseethomas , @alexandergreenwald , and I flew to New York City. Well, actually, I missed my flight, and somehow a baby Ryro flew with Alex in my stead with nothing but the (bold and colorful) clothes on his back. I got there the next day, proceeded to lose my purse, get tonsillitis, go to the doctor, buy a Hello Kitty™️ purse at the toy store next door, and head on down to the studio. The bulk of Release Me was recorded in nine days with @iamMarkRonson producing. We recorded at Thomas Brenneck and Homer Steinweiss’ studio in Brooklyn. It sat above a bakery and everything smelled like pastries. There were no mirrors in the building and after two days I begged them to put one in the bathroom so that I knew I existed. Recorded on half inch tape, with amazing vintage gear, all live in the room. @alexandergreenwald on bass and @victoraxelrod on keys. I will forever remember the big breath before every take, thinking “PLEASE no one fuck this up including ME.” We finished the last few songs 9 months later with the production and recording stylings of Tommy, Homer, and MVP @alexandergreenwald . We mixed it back in LA with the great @pawnpawntbp . And then began the long and arduous process of finding @laena________ and @anniemonrovia . Two of the greatest bandmates, players, and bandmates that my life partner @tennesseebunny and I could have ever dreamed up. I don’t know fully how we found them and I can’t imagine a world without them. It was the sixties, man. There was magic in the air. I remember getting on the plane after the last night of The Strokes tour in Australia, the four of us girls, not yet having slept, with our beehives tousled and our false lashes hanging on for dear life, and our manager, the beautiful, late, Jazz Summers (who cured my chronic tonsillitis!) who looked at us and said, “I think you’re the most Rock and Roll band I’ve ever worked with.” And he managed the fucking Verve. Happy anniversary to this very special record.

On Sale Friday, June 20 at Noon ET at EnjoyTheRideRecords.com: The Like - Release Me. In celebration of the 15th anniversary of Release Me, the highly sought-after album has been repressed on colorful vinyl, with the addition of the bonus track “Why When The Love Is Gone.” Release Me was the follow-up to the band’s 2005 debut album, Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? There was shift in the band’s sound, akin to a ‘60s girl group, further showcasing the talents of Z Berg and Tennessee Thomas. Berg and Thomas were joined by Alex Greenwald and Victor Axelrod in the studio. Shortly after, Annie Monroe and Laena Geronimo joined the band. Release Me was produced by 9-Time Grammy Award Winner Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Bruno Mars, Barbie) with additional production by Thomas Brenneck, Homer Steinweiss, and Alex Greenwald. Release Me has been pressed across two colorful variants, Fair Game Cornetto and Release Me Swirl. Be sure to set your alarms (and note the time zone) so you don’t miss out!

So since y’all snapped these babies up so fast, @madebymutant made a second pressing of Strange Darling vinyl. This one is what can only be described as a very slutty red. Supplies are, again, limited, but they are there for the taking! It feels strange to post about anything normal when the world is both burning and freezing and flooding and being taken over by fascists and Russia won the Cold War and we’re slow walking into another pandemic on top of the one we’re CURRENTLY IN, but there are still beautiful things in the world. So I made a free associative list of things that make life worth living (one of which is of course vinyl records) and I suggest you do the same! It’s a very David Lynch thing to do. And it does kind of help. Anyway. Make your own lists and tag me! And if you were unlucky enough to miss the first round of vinyl, I’m excited there are finally more. Peace be with you, comrades. . . . 📸 by @cameronmccool

I will be playing some tunes with @phantomplanet , Feb. 1st @regenttheaterla to help with fire aid for our brutalized and beloved town. Featuring guest performances by @thisistherealryanross , @dallonweekes and @anthonypurpura of @idkhow , @hembreemusic , @ryann , @joeybkeefe and more. The hellscape is unending but at least we have music and each other and the films of David Lynch to watch forever. Come on down. And wear a mask!!!! Link in bio. . . . 📸’s by @sidthecat

It’s Christmas Eve! Time to commit arson or however it goes! . . . 📸’s by @sidthecat at Z Berg and Friends Full Moon Fever Night Two: Waning Gibbous