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New album · February 2027

SufferSuccessfully

New single arriving November 2026. Vinyl release show planned for February 2027.

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Darkening Stars album artwork: hand-drawn gold stars above a blue streetDebut solo album · Official release 2024

01 / Darkening Stars

Darkening Stars

The 2024 debut solo album—a luminous set of songs suspended between streetlight and night sky.

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Joe PeppercornAnyway Records · 2024

02 / Lyrics & Songs

Lyrics &
songs.

Two solo records, songs Joe wrote for The Whiles, the complete 2017 song-a-week project, and new work still taking shape.

Darkening StarsSuffer SuccessfullyThe WhilesHebdomadal Songs, 2017New Songs, 2026
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Sgt. Peppercorn’sBeatles Marathon

Created by Joe in 2010, the Paul McCartney- and Ringo Starr-endorsed Beatles Marathon is an annual 13–14-hour live celebration of the Beatles’ music.

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Joe sings The Smiths & MorrisseyHeadmasters

Since 2014, Joe and a handful of incredibly talented musicians have brought the songs of The Smiths and Morrissey to life with wit, ache, drama, and glorious guitar weather.

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03 / More music & film

A song every week
in 2017.

Joe wrote and recorded a new original song every week for an entire year—fifty-two songs made at home, one deadline at a time.

04 / A few marks along the way

That was some time ago

— “Japanese Cherry Tree”

  1. Suffer Successfully, arriving in February
  2. Darkening Stars, Daphne, and the beginnings of Saving Sgt Peppercorn
  3. A song every week, Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and the lockdown Beatles Marathon
  4. Headmasters began performing The Smiths and Morrissey
  5. Sgt. Peppercorn’s Beatles Marathon began
  6. The Whiles released Colors of the Year, Sleepers Wake, Somber Honey, Mercury Ghost, Hummingbird, and a newly recorded Colors of the Year; music appeared in Murderball

05 / Elsewhere

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