In the early 2000s, we female-type creatures with burgeoning sapphic feelings had t.A.T.u’s anthem “All the Things She Said” to swoon over on a famishing Friday night. Deep down, I am sure the skeptics among us fully suspected that the sensuous duo was all a product manufactured by dirty old men in a boardroom… but... Continue Reading →
I’ve probably mentioned before that as a little kid I used to make tapes of a pretend radio station called “K23: Greek music, relaxing hits, and information” (the station ID I delivered in an abrasively singsong tone). I conducted make-believe interviews, gave talk-radio-style commentary, improvised commercials where I hollered about products being on sale for... Continue Reading →
Five years ago, when I was first thinking about ending my musical hiatus but hadn’t yet figured out how to approach writing songs again, I learned to play a handful of covers that felt right at the time. Most of them fell by the wayside once I started making my “comeback” album, but the one... Continue Reading →
When the air changes on the first day of SeptemberWhen I look out over a crunchy frozen fieldWhen I find a box of crumbling 1960s science fiction paperbacksWhen I’m sickWhen I see a black polyester button-downWhen I travel to another cityWhen someone smokes a cigWhen I see a flowerpot of geraniumsWhen I see crude grave... Continue Reading →
I like to put vids out on long weekends. I was thinking about Cat Power today, so I did something that has been a long time coming (though till today I didn’t know quite how to go about it) and that has a ton of significance to me. It’s a cobbling together of “The Greatest”... Continue Reading →
Full disclosure: though at the start of this year I was doing everything I could to let folks know I was able and willing to perform live, I didn’t really expect it to happen anytime soon. I have no name recognition and did my best for the majority of my fifteen+ years in this town... Continue Reading →
*"In Internet aesthetics, liminal spaces are empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal. Liminal spaces are commonly places of transition..." wikpedia.org I recently changed the online description of my music in all the places to "liminal art pop". There's a risk to that. Arguably it's not a description you can "hear" (which places it... Continue Reading →
Following a successful debut at Charlottesville’s Chinchilla Cafe in mid-May, Sold Kingdom is now seeking additional bookings! Here’s the new EPK!
I’ve written about The Carpenters before, focusing on the underlying darkness I always perceived in their music. Todd Haynes’ shadowy, subversive Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (in which his idiosyncratic choice to use Barbie dolls instead of actors actually amplifies the biopic’s emotional impact), as well as Sonic Youth’s hazy, nihilistic cover of “Superstar”, stand... Continue Reading →
The Sold Kingdom 