Image Description: This logo features a bright, white outline drawing of a mortar board style graduation hat with a hanging tassel. Under the hat where someone’s face would be, also in bright, white lettering reads “Dr. Cyn and the Graduates RISE.” The stems on the letter E are lifting up and to the right to symbolize rising. Created with Marilu Herrera.
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.
Mov 15, 2024 Video Release - My Drummer has a Fear of Success
in honor of
National Drumming Day
Released on National Drummer Appreciation Day in honor of Keith Moon, the legendary drummer from The Who that inspired the song, My Drummer has a Fear of Success cracks some drummer jokes while also providing helpful advice to support individuals who may be engaging in self-sabotage while managing their fear of success.
Visualizer video for My Drummer has a Fear of Success made by Dr. CynCorrigible using Neural Frames to create AI renderings in the style of Jim Henson’s Muppets featuring a puppet that looks like Dr. Cyn rocking out with their band. Their drummer resembles the Muppet Animal who is a classic puppet character also inspired by Keith Moon. The puppet band are depicted together performing as a band, doing yoga, in the park, and in the city streets. The video cover picture shows a puppet that looks like Animal with long red hair all over its body and it is wearing a blue puppet band t shirt and they are playing drums with flames coming off the cymbals.
“We all need to breathe deeply and face our fears”
Image Description: Social media promo image that shows a logo with lettering that reads “National Drumming Day, Drumming.com, November 15th” and shows a drumkit set up on a red background. It also features the cover art for My Drummer has a Fear of Success and Dr. Cyn’s brandmark. There is a QR code that links to https://drcyn.hearnow.com/canary.
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
