love stories is, fittingly, a love story. after four lonely solo albums, i invited my son cormac to join me on this one. he produced the album and performed on most of the tracks. the result is my most fun and accessible work to date—a collection of 12 musical short stories exploring the arc of intimacy in four parts: innocence, ignorance, ambivalence, and contact.

side one features bright, power-pop energy, thanks to cormac’s clever arrangements and sharp instincts. side two then shifts into a more classic monday mongs tone, creating a deep and varied reading experience.

i’m super proud of this father-son collaboration. enjoy!

i wanted to get some music out after the death of my brother. like him, life, death, both, neither is funny, warm, eclectic, political, deep, and, at times, challenging.

for gary liotta.

i released a new album, falling down, on inauguration day (phew!!). it is currently rolling out to all major streaming sites.

as i did with up, up, and away, i’ve taken past monday songs and created a continuous musical experience, “the broken road to open wide.” it’s a meditation on love and surrender, a soundtrack to the uncertain journey from loss to acceptance.

since some platforms and devices insert space between songs, i’ve created a single continuous track below to give the full experience.

i hope to have more to share in the coming weeks and months.

it’s nice to be back.

After a two year absence, I’ve moved my feature-length video to Vimeo, making it available again after various issues with the other video platform.

The movie accompanies the album “Up, Up and Away,” whose eighteen songs chronicle the emotional rollercoaster of a manic episode that landed me in the hospital in 1999. The video juxtaposes my songs with classics of manic cinema.

Enjoy!

i made this video for elizabeth warren, my choice for president since the debacle in 2016.

“electability” is a code word for “men are only comfortable voting for a man.” if you need proof of misogyny in this country, just point at most men’s inability to see that warren is the only candidate with a resume that includes the kind of work that will be necessary in cleaning up after trump. if the question is framed as who has the chops to run a country after it has been pressed through the GOP sausage grinder, warren is not only the sole candidate who understands the moment, the petty way the three front-running men are campaigning shows they are ignorant of the way the world has changed since the obama-trump presidencies.

“trust me” is an empty promise. what we need are clear rules for transparency and accountability, and that’s the last thing a man will offer when running for a position he feels entitled to. entitlement is the last thing we need after the toxic masculinity on display in this lawless administration and the political party that covered their crimes.

i completed this video in early 2019, but never posted it on monday songs, as far as i can recall. this was one of the more intensive edits that i’ve done for a video, but the results made the work well worth it.

i have yet to see any evidence that makes me think this take is anything other than a perfect metaphor for what has happened in our political system. with the single exception of rachel maddow and a handful of fellow msnbc hosts, corporate news lives and dies on politics as a sporting event, allowing them to abandon their role as gadflies who shame the powerful with the truth. when profit is the highest priority, news becomes cheerleading, or worse, marketing. this needs to change…

i released this video for trump’s inauguration, the song was done some weeks earlier. i’m no nostrodamus, but my predictions were proven to be right on the money. the video doesn’t do much visually, but the bridge section makes it worth a full view, including early positivity about 2020.one side note: my final live performance of “up, up, and away” took place the night before he took office, so it marked the end of an era and the beginning of an intense deep dive into politics, shame, journalism, and an up-close disappointment with the underlying unfairness of the american system. this work has proven to be a wake up call for me to pursue justice through my art and writing as a full time commitment. much more to come in the months ahead…

i released this video during my billie burke estate phase in anticipation of the 2006 midterms. i believe the bad faith of the GOP these past fourteen years have more than justified the tone of this video.

happy birthday martin luther king!

lyrics

this tune was originally released as a monday underground video to ring in the new year in 2016.

and today it serves equally well as a goodbye to the monday songs project.

any future tracks will show up at my soundcloud account.

thanks for listening.