Portland’s Drunk Dial Records Bring Fictional Bands to Life on Fakes – Volume Three: A Charity Compilation
Drunk Dial started as a tongue-in-cheek idea in a Portland bar—what if a label encouraged bands to get drunk and record whatever happened? What began as a joke quickly turned into a guiding philosophy built around spontaneity, looseness, and capturing performances before they’re overthought. Instead of polished perfection, Drunk Dial focuses on the raw, unfiltered moments that emerge when artists are pushed outside their usual creative routines, turning chaos and imperfection into part of the aesthetic.
That approach carries through the Fakes compilation series, which explores fictional bands as a way to tap into nostalgia, imagination, and the emotional truth behind music culture. Featuring underground and indie artists across multiple volumes, the series treats invented bands like real folklore—stories and sounds that feel lived-in even if they never existed. Fakes – Volume Three expands that universe further, blending punk, indie, and garage influences into something messy, heartfelt, and reflective of why people fall in love with music in the first place: not just the songs, but the stories they carry.
Drunk Dial returns with Fakes – Volume Three, a new cassette and digital compilation that continues its ongoing series dedicated to songs from fictional bands in film and television. As with previous volumes, the release pairs its music with a charitable cause, with proceeds benefiting Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a nonprofit supporting unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children through legal and psychosocial services. Across thirteen tracks, punk, garage, and indie artists from across North America reinterpret well-known fictional band songs—from The Archies and Robin Sparkles to Sex Bob-omb, Jesse and the Rippers, and Spinal Tap—pulling pop culture curios into a more chaotic, underground context.
The result is a compilation that treats fictional music like shared cultural folklore, where parody and nostalgia start to feel surprisingly real once revisited through a louder, more distorted lens. Contributions range from Night Court’s urgent take on “Everybody Wants Something” from Degrassi, to SPELLS’ chaotic version of “The Thermos Song” from The Jerk, Keddies Resort’s fuzzed-out “Garbage Truck,” and TV Cop’s reinterpretation of Jesse and the Rippers’ “I Belong to You.” The Chugs and Sex Mex add further twists with takes on Adam Sandler’s “Somebody Kill Me Please” and Spinal Tap’s “Listen to the Flower People,” respectively. Altogether, Fakes – Volume Three feels less like a traditional tribute album and more like a loose, community-driven artifact—part homage, part joke, and part basement-show energy captured on tape.
Make sure you check out Drunk Dial Fakes: Vol. 3 on Spotify below and over on Bandcamp!
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