Dr. CynCorrigible and their band Graduates Rise use punk rock, confessional poetry, and explicit criticism in an attempt to demystify politics and systems of higher education.
In this image, Dr. CynCorrigible is pictured wearing an army jacket and gothic jewelry. Their hair is teased up in a side hawk and they have a black stripe of makeup across their eyes. They are standing against a black sky with a snarl on their face, hands reaching up as if grasping for change.
Dr. Cyn and the Graduates Rise’ new album
“This album is about both the cosmic joy and profound sadness of modern American life.”
Canary
Available everywhere digital Now!
Music videos will be released monthly until July 26, 2025.
Nine punk rock songs to help you cope with the horrors of submission to the seemingly inevitable systemic exploitation of human beings in art, commerce, education, finance, healthcare, labor, and sport, and then one spacey love song, there’s always hope you know…
Check out the full Press Release for Canary here: https://www.graduatesrise.com/press-kit-canary
Pictured is Dr. Cyn standing at the mic, surrounded by their bandmates from the Canary lineup, Jerry Campbell on guitar, D. Patrick Rodgers on drums, and Bingham Barnes on bass. They are all wearing black, smiling, and standing together as a band holding their instruments in front of several amps.
Oct 10, 2024 Video Release - Not Today Exploitation
in honor of
World Mental Health Day & Simone Biles!!
Released on World Mental Health Day in honor of USA Olympic gymnast Simone Biles who inspired the song, Not Today Exploitation celebrates people who stand up for their mental health and seeks to strengthen those that need to say no for safety. Aligned with 2024’s WMHD theme “It is time to prioritize mental health in the workplace,” the song validates “the twisties” as a legitimate condition that humans must manage and draws parallels to Spoon Theory. Both are metaphors that serve to explain how people with mental health and/or chronic health issues may need to deviate from what is expected of them for safety.
Visualizer video for Not Today Exploitation made by Dr. CynCorrigible using Neural Frames. The video features AI renderings of Dr. Cyn as a gymnast, rocking out with their AI band, and it ends with Dr. Cyn leading protests in the streets. The video cover picture shows a close of Dr. Cyn’s face as animated by AI to have their blonde mohawk spiked up and face painted white with a black stripe across their eyes. The background is multicolored squares and depicts the black mirror of cell phones and how the dark screen can reflect your image back to you, but distorted.
“This video is every potentiality of myself coming together from across the universe to say that it is well past time for humanity to rethink the way we do work/life balance.”
Graduates Rise performs for the Nashville Visionaries curation by Carl Pope at Tennessee State University’s Hiram Van Gordon Gallery, March 13, 2019. Left to Right Erik Dail on drums, Dr. CynCorrigible on the mic, and Michael Majett plays bass.
Dr. Cyn is a member of Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities (RAMPD). This image features the RAMPD logo in black on a background that is colored like the disability pride flag with a series of pink, yellow, white, blue, and green colored stripes on a field of black. The RAMPD logo is a music note designed to resemble a uniquely styled human. It also features the leters RAMPD and the website www.rampd.org
