MAN ON MAN with support from Secret Secret and Rose Haze
You remember your pandemic project, don't you? Maybe it was baking bread, cultivating a garden, or finally committing to Proust? But for Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman--back then, a new couple of longtime musicians, en route from New York City to California to care for Roddy's ailing mother--it was writing songs, meant only to entertain themselves in those suddenly idle days. Joey, after all, had his guitar in the car; during the road trip west, they ordered a microphone, waiting for them in California where they'd live and work from a cozy beachside A-frame. They got to work but, really, to play, shaping a dynamic string of new-love songs about tender infatuation, the ache of all-consuming lust, and the excitement of a full future, together. "It's so fun," they cooed in content unison, "to be gay," their own birds-and-bees ode to joy. Those songs stuck around, accreting not only into an album but into the band MAN ON MAN, lauded by Rolling Stone and loved for music videos that documented the real romance of two fully grown gay men. That pandemic project? Suddenly, a little hit. -
https://www.instagram.com/manonmanmusic/
Secret Secret is an SF born n' raised band of fearsome femme rock warriors. They play genre bending music that is self described as Lullaby punk.
https://secretsecretsf.bandcamp.com/album/secret-secret
ROSE HAZE is the genre-bending musical project of Kate Ramsey, a mercurial songwriter, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for analog synths. Ramsey emits an ethereal feminine prowess and powerful panache, and her unabashedly vulnerable lyrics explore the depths of the human experience.
https://linktr.ee/rose_haze