LOS ANGELES, CA- I can still remember ducking crowd surfers with my camera at Echo Park Rising back in 2014, watching Together Pangea level the Echoplex with raw, sweaty abandon. The energy was chaotic… stage jumpers colliding with the audience, a skateboard even flying through the air before security had to step in. That was Together Pangea at their most primal: garage rock with a punk sneer, made to shake walls and rile up bodies.
Fast forward ten years, and the band has traded some of that reckless abandon for something darker, sharper, and undeniably more mature. Their new single, “Like Your Father,” the first taste of their upcoming album Eat Myself, carries the weight of experience. Gone are the cheeky anthems designed purely for chaos; in their place are lyrics steeped in mature kind of pain, cycles of repression, and the quiet hint of self-doubt. When William Keegan repeats “I been hiding from myself all my life,” it feels like an artist standing still long enough to finally take stock of what it all means.
The song’s production, handled by Grammy-winner Mikey Freedom Hart, leans heavier, closer to the shoegaze gloom of My Bloody Valentine or the alt-rock brooding of Deftones. There’s still that familiar Pangea edge, but now it’s filtered through layers of distortion, restraint, and reflection. It’s music that hits as much in the gut as it does in the pit.
The video for “Like Your Father” pushes this shift even further. It follows an aging man who’s repeatedly mistaken for Robert De Niro on the street, a gag that builds into something more layered as he auditions for commercials and ends up on stage, riffing in a routine that echoes De Niro’s The King of Comedy. On the surface, it’s absurd. It kind of harkens back to the tongue-in-cheek humor Together Pangea have always embraced. But in the context of the song, it lands like an exploration of identity and performance: how we hide, how we’re seen, and how we try to tell our story, even if we can’t quite “tell it right.”
The juxtaposition is striking. Together Pangea are still that band that can draw a smile with their irreverence, but now they’re layering those impulses with introspection. “Like Your Father” bridges past and present: the raw power of their early days, the anthemic sing-alongs, and now, the kind of reflective songwriting that shows how far they’ve come. It’s a clear signal of the new territory they’re carving out on their upcoming album Eat Myself, due January 16, 2026, which promises to stretch their sound into darker and more textured places.
Ten years after dodging flying skateboards at the Echoplex, I’m finding myself just as excited about where this band is headed — maybe even more so. Together Pangea have grown up, but they’ve done it without losing what made them electric in the first place.
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Together Pangea Tour Dates
November 13 – Strummers – Fresno, CA
November 14 – Rickshaw Stop – San Francisco, CA
November 15 – Starlet Room – Sacramento, CA
November 16 – Holland Project – Reno, NV
January 16 – Teragram Ballroom (Record Release Show) – Los Angeles, CA
January 17 – Pappy + Harriet’s – Pioneertown, CA
January 23 – Club Congress – Tucson, AZ
