All Points Bulletin

If you are reading this, you are Donkey!

Rock & Roll Coma Dreams

DONKEY ISLAND PENITENTIARY survived the pandemic the only way they know how; by crafting songs in secret. THE EXPERIMENTS and PRISONERS OF EARTH re-release on June 4, 2023, in partnership with Ditto Music!

This band of brothers from Los Angeles, California came to life in 2014 after vocalist Big Dave Perea nearly died in a month long coma. With his brother, Vincent Perea, on drums and their compadre, Alejandro Speranza, on guitar, they made Rock & Roll out of Big Dave's coma dreams; becoming unstuck in time and space, confronting your own monsters, defending the innocent, escaping confinement, and cheating death itself. Donkey Island Penitentiary follows up their self titled debut LP of harmonica driven rock & roll with their hardest hitting material yet, featuring the thunderous Carlos Costa on bass! Their music has been heard on KLOS FM Los Angeles, Rodney on the Rock on SiriusXM and around the world.

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Donkey Island Penitentiary is the sound of garage, punk and science fiction, filtered through the blues. Recordings of their unique brand of harmonica driven hallucinations, including WHO’S THE MONSTER?, PRISON BREAK, and new singles PRISONERS OF EARTH and THE EXPERIMENTS are available for purchase on BANDCAMP*, streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, IHeartRadio, and many other places music is stolen or heard. *Buy something every First Friday and support the Donkey Revolution!

From the deserts of Las Vegas, to the main stage of the infamous Viper Room, The Donkeys lead a sonic revolution on every stage they play. Along the way, they competed in the Battle for the Vans Warped Tour, headlined the international YouBloom Music Summit, and took the airwaves, including Locals Only with Mr. Shovel Show on KLOS, 95.5fm. You can’t stop DONKEY ISLAND PENITENTIARY, and you never know where they’ll show up next.

Catch us if you can!

PRESS QUOTES

“Donkey Island Penitentiary has intricately crafted this self-titled full-length in a manner that accurately allows them to bare all and I challenge you to not having a good time listening to it."
-Matthew Speer, Ear Nutrition

“Some music is made for dancing in wild abandon and 'Shoot You Down' you down is a case in point."
-Tim Whale, Emerging Indie Bands

"It’s old school and dramatic, the classic spaghetti-western soundtrack as always, perfectly produced and perfectly delivered. "
-Bethany Jinks, Musically Fresh

"The music as a whole is unique... The songs become hypnotic, sci-fi and weird, but then the melodies and subtleties bring it all back to very cool"
- Pierce Brochetti, Music Connection Magazine

"Their Punk and Blues cross-over with it’s Latin roots, tells tales of vigilante justice, deals with the devil and time travel and is nothing short of fantastic and If I’m honest, I’m a little bit in love with it."
- Bethany Jinks, Musically Fresh

"Our personal favorite is "Going Down" , a slower moving song that will yank at your heart while you are tapping your toes and rolling to its classical blues rock beat."
- Coming Up Music Magazine