Cubby Control Records

06/21/2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 21, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco indie/psych rock and experimental music label Cubby Control Records announces the release of the self-titled debut album by Thriel (pronounced “Threel”) available digitally on Bandcamp: https://thriel.bandcamp.com/album/thriel. Thriel was formed as an offshoot of REPTIEL, which includes members of seminal San Francisco bands The Cubby Creatures, Thee More Shallows and The Druggles.

Not ones to shy away from controversy with their mix of punk, indie and psych rock, Thriel takes on such thorny subjects as the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco, artificial intelligence, the billionaire space race, the lab leak, nuclear war and the Delphi murders, thus making themselves musici non grata across the political spectrum in their native San Francisco.

Thriel was recorded during 2024 and 2025 at Feast or Famine in San Francisco by outsider producer/engineer/musician Jai Young Kim who is responsible for some of the most subterranean underground music in San Francisco history.

What's being said about Thriel by Thriel...

“We’ll likely have to sue them.” – Jeff Bezos & Sam Altman

“Their cynicism is understandable, but they needn’t be so offensive.” – SF Chronicle

“Taylor Swift, this is not. Therefore 3.4 stars.” – Pitchfork

(DISCLAIMER: the views and opinions expressed lyrically on the album Thriel do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Cubby Control Records.)

03/25/2026

Remember this one...?

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05/30/2024

Art Rock at the San Francisco Public Library this Saturday, June 1, with Surplus 1980 and Dizzy Twin. Music begins at 1pm in the Main Library's Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. https://sfpl.org/events/2024/06/01/performance-bay-beats-rockexperimental-music-concert

05/26/2024

Bay Area musician friends, this is the last week you can submit your music for consideration for Bay Beats, San Francisco Public Library's local music streaming platform. We won't be accepting submissions again until next year. https://baybeats.sfpl.org/

03/20/2024

Down Below World is the third in a series of sci-fi/fantasy concept albums from psychedelic proggers, Reptiel, which began with the wonderfully strangely named Hobbitozz…A Land That Never Was and continued with The Planet of Progkp. This latest instalment, and their fifth album overall, continues ...

02/07/2024

"Preserved in Amber" by REPTIEL from their new album Down Below World...

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02/02/2024

CUBBY CONTROL RECORDS ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF REPTIEL’S DOWN BELOW WORLD ALBUM, THIRD IN THEIR SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY SERIES

San Francisco psych-rock and experimental music label Cubby Control Records announces the release of a new album by label veterans REPTIEL entitled Down Below World. This is REPTIEL’s fifth album and third in their SciFi/Fantasy, Psychedelic Prog Rock series that began with 2015’s Hobbitozz … A Land That Never Was, proceeded with 2018’s The Planet of Progkp and now continues with Down Below World.

Down Below World resumes the story of protagonist Sine and his transgalactic guide the Spirit Usher. This time they have found themselves *inside* the planet of Progkp as they confront Progkp’s deity, Thos, after a journey to the planet’s core.

REPTIEL began recording Down Below World in 2019 at Light Rail Studios in San Francisco by outsider record producer Elton Cunniffe who is responsible for some of the most unheard underground recordings in San Francisco history. They resumed recording and mixing in 2021 when it was once again safe to meet in close proximity with other humans. Mastering of the album and solicitation of artwork for the Down Below World CD and website commenced and concluded in 2023 and the album was officially released on Feb. 1, 2024.

REPTIEL was formed in San Francisco in 2009 by Jason Gonzales, Jason Yakich, Alec Way and Brian Weaver, members of Bay Area underground indie rock bands The Cubby Creatures, Thee More Shallows and The Druggles. The REPTIELians claim to practice “ritual musick” in order to summon their stories and sounds.

14 track album

01/31/2024

Day 30, track 30 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World," coming Feb. 1 !!): "Progkp": Sine has completed his first series of tests that the Spirit Usher subjected him to on the planet of Progkp, thus fortifying his mind so that he can restore and sustain life on Hobbitozz via the body of the Druid of the Wood. He is now Aleph Adept, but the Spirit Usher is about to es**rt Sine to his next series of trials, this time *inside* the planet of Progkp, a place the inhabitants call Down Below World. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/progkp (Artwork by Cyane Tornatzky)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/30/2024

Day 29, track 29 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): "Aleph Adept": Sine enters the temple of the Avian Aliens and undergoes his third and final test: an initiation, conducted by the Alien Elven Souls, in which Sine becomes Aleph Adept. https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/aleph-adept (Artwork by Doug Welch)

from the album The Planet of Progkp

01/29/2024

Day 28, track 28 (on our way to the release of REPTIEL's new album "Down Below World"): "The Hallowed Bones of the Alien Elven Souls": Sine arrives at a structure constructed from the Hallowed Bones of the Alien Elven Souls (The Temple of the Avian Aliens). It is a temple the ancient Progkpians built to honor the beings they thought were gods who landed on their planet and then died shortly thereafter, but not before providing the Progkpians with knowledge of how to survive their dying planet (which as we will find out in Down Below World was to burrow into the planet itself.) https://reptiel.bandcamp.com/track/the-hallowed-bones-of-the-alien-elven-souls-temple-of-the-avian-aliens (Artwork by Anselm Yew)

from the album The Planet of Progkp