Todd Penland

Out of My Mind Out of My Mind is an album about externalization. It starts from the premise that the most dangerous place for fear, anger, grief, responsibility, and moral conflict is inside our heads, where everyt

Out of My Mind is about taking what loops endlessly in our heads - fear, anger, doubt, responsibility- putting it outside ourselves, to look at it and decide what to do with it.

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#January30 #January30th #NursesStrike

Still With You [Verse 1] There are rooms that still remember How a voice once filled the air There are mornings that arrive And find the silence waiting there Keys still rest where they were left Jackets hang like

Just five of the nearly 40 people who have died or were killed during Trump's murderous #ICE enforcement actions in 2025 and 2026. This has got to stop.

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Hands That Held the Light Responsibility is an album about power, permission, and consequence. It traces how harm becomes possible, how authority overreaches, and how violence moves from rhetoric to routine. Some songs focus o

Hands That Held The Light (in memory of Alex Pretti)

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#AlexPretti #Minneapolis

We Haven't Forgotten Responsibility is an album about power, permission, and consequence. It traces how harm becomes possible, how authority overreaches, and how violence moves from rhetoric to routine. Some songs focus o

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We Haven't Forgotten - #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

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Responsibility Responsibility is an album about power, permission, and consequence. It traces how harm becomes possible, how authority overreaches, and how violence moves from rhetoric to routine. Some songs focus o

Responsibility is my 12th album. It documents how power is used and enabled, what follows when restraint fails, and the part we play after the damage is done.

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The Death of a Nation The Death of a Nation is not a warning. It is a receipt. This album documents what happens when cruelty is normalized, accountability is optional, and power learns it can act without consequence. It

The Death of a Nation is not a warning. It is a receipt. Ten songs documenting the slow fulfillment of ideas celebrated as strength, carried faithfully to their conclusion. Not collapse as chaos, but completion.

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Routine Killing / Minneapolis These two songs were written within the same month, shaped by the same air, the same streets, the same accumulating weight. They belong together. Routine Killing sits inside the numbness that comes f

A paired release about living through sustained state violence. One song sits in the numbness. The other records a city standing together in the cold. Not resolution, not victory—just witness, endurance, and refusal to disappear.

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The Room I'm In / The Shape It Left This is a song pair. Neither song is a response to the other. They’re two views of the same terrain. The Room I’m In is about delayed recognition and emotional dislocation. Something arrives that is

Today is all about this I guess: a song that I wrote on the day my discharge upgrade notice arrived, and another that I wrote today after the dust had settled.

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Military member sitting in dorm room reading a discharge document

WHEN RECOGNITION COMES AFTER THE DAMAGE IS DONE

I recently received notice that my military discharge has been upgraded to Honorable.

What I felt when I received that notice was not relief.

It was anger.

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Capitaclysm Capitaclysm is a full-length musical told through song. It explores what happens when systems built on power, fear, and profit begin to fracture — not all at once, but from the inside out. The story

My first full length musical

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