Raised on a steady diet of showtunes and secular
Jewish leftism, Dan Fishback was destined to be gay
and loud. In 2003, he moved to New York City, where he
promptly found a home in the Sidewalk Cafe's Antifolk
community. As half of the indie-pop duo Cheese On
Bread, Dan saturated the Lower East Side with his
characteristic blend of coy spunk and fierce
progressive ideology. It was his solo work, however,
that established him as more than a bouncy pop singer.
Hailed by Next Magazine as an "Antifolk genius,"
Dan's songs of frustration and fear provided a welcome
change to the vacuous vamping found in most "queer
art." His performance art, too, has attracted the
attention of intellectual young homos, thirsty for
thoughtful discourse. Ironic without being nihilistic,
passionate without being annoying, Dan writes outside
of and against consumerist mainstream gay culture.
His debut album, SWEET CHASTITY, is a frantic,
schizophrenic exploration of virginity in a culture
that commodifies the human body. From the twisted
electro-pulse of the title track to the
Carpenters-esque croon of "Kiss and Tell," SWEET
CHASTITY blends at least a dozen musical genres into
an anti-pop mission statement of bitter wit and
seething optimism.
You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll break up with your
boyfriend.
