PIG Traffic Control
These are my collected plain street cones. We will need them for the tour because when the RV/bus is parked outside a venue, they’ll go along the street…
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POST-PIG · NEW RECORDING WORK · EN ESCH NOVEMBER RUN · PIGFACE CHICAGO
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Drummer · Recording Artist · Producer
Michael J.
Carrasquillo
PIG TOUR COMPLETE
THE NEXT CHAPTER IS ALREADY MOVING
Drummer, recording artist and producer working across industrial, electronic and alternative music. Fresh off the 2026 PIG North American tour and moving directly into new records, collaborations, select live dates and the next round of work.
Featured performance
THE PIG CHAPTER · 2026
LIVE WITH PIG
A look back at the North American run — and the live work that helped set up what comes next.
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NEXT CHAPTER
THE NEXT MOVE
POST-PIG · EN ESCH · NEW WORK
RIGHT NOW
POST-PIG · EN ESCH · NEW WORK
The road didn't end. It changed direction.
New Panic Lift record complete · En Esch November dates · The Lonely Death · recording work · media appearances · PIGFACE in Chicago.
Upcoming Live
EN ESCH
NOVEMBER 2026
Pittsburgh · Madison · St. Louis · Chicago
Back behind the kit with En Esch for a short November run through Pittsburgh, Madison and St. Louis before landing in Chicago for a major night at Thalia Hall.
The run culminates November 27 with PIGFACE, En Esch and I Speak Machine — bringing another part of the industrial family tree back together on one stage.
NOV
18
Pittsburgh, PA
Wednesday
SideQuest on 44th
En Esch · The Russian White · Solemn Shapes
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NOV
27
Chicago, IL
Friday
PIGFACE · Thalia Hall
PIGFACE · En Esch · I Speak Machine
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THE ARCHIVE
YOU WERE THERE TOO
The PIG tour may be over, but the documentation isn't. Crowd footage, photos and strange little moments still belong in the archive.
NOW / NEXT
THE WORK BETWEEN ANNOUNCEMENTS
Finished tours, unfinished ideas, new recordings, rehearsals, collaborations and whatever happens before somebody writes the official press release.
FOLLOW THE BUILD
LATEST FIELD NOTES
The newest road notes, rehearsal decisions, studio work, gear experiments and things learned while they are still being built.
The Gravity of Home
On the edge of leaving for tour, a drive toward an old hometown turns into a reckoning with family, loss and the strange gravity of going home.
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Height Issues
I mean look at me in the middle compared to the rest of the boys. I’m waist high! Hopefully a drum riser will solve the problem of staring…
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MERCH
FROM THE MERCH TABLE
Physical pieces from the road, the studio and the archive.
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MEDIA / CONVERSATIONS
INTERVIEWS · PODCASTS · COVERAGE
Conversations about touring, songwriting, drumming, production, career longevity and navigating the strange machinery of the music business.
MUSIC / PROJECTS / RELEASES
WHAT'S MOVING NOW
PIG was one very visible chapter. Recording, writing, collaboration and new artist work continue underneath it.
Still Moving.
THE LONG VERSION
More than three decades into this, the path still refuses to be linear. I've moved between drum risers, studios, record labels, production rooms, tour vans, websites, photography pits and some very strange corners of industrial music.
The 2026 PIG tour became one of the biggest live chapters yet. It didn't resolve the story. It expanded it — into new recording work, new collaborations, new rooms and a much larger idea of what the next few years can look like.
This site documents the work while it's happening instead of pretending careers only exist when somebody issues a press release.
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Media / Conversations
Interviews, podcasts, panels and conversations about songwriting, touring, drumming, production and building a sustainable career in music.
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Booking / Opportunities
Podcasts, panels, interviews, performances, recording, collaborations and other opportunities where the experience behind the work is useful.
Booking Information →Contact Michael →
FOLLOW THE BUILD
THE TOUR ENDED. THE BUILD DIDN'T.
Post-tour notes, new recordings, rehearsals, live dates, collaborations, gear, ideas and the work happening between the announcements.