Gregory McKillop’s Little Demon on the Back Seat sparked a heated (and maybe self-important?) conversation over on NineBullets about identity, art, and our “scene.” So this entry is a bit more about the context of this album rather than the…
Howdy! Guess what? You’re reading part 2 of a mini-series on incredible LGBTQ-identified folk artists. I was introduced to Joan by Greg McKillop, who you’ll hear more about tomorrow. But for now I want to talk about Joan. All I…
In the three-and-then-some years I’ve been writing Adobe & Teardrops, I’ve become a bit of a scene kid. Not necessarily in the alt-country scene in Brooklyn (it’s thriving, as I’m sure you can guess), but in the queer alt-country scene…
Today, my students broke my heart. Not only did they accuse me of looking like a tourist, but they asked me who Paul McCartney was. And Ella Fitzgerald. Of the three, I’m not sure which cuts the most. Anyway. It’s…
Like many people, American Aquarium entered my radar with Burn. Flicker. Die. I recently had a loss in my family, and that’s the album that got me through it. Not because it’s sad, but because it’s about rejecting where you’ve…