Actively it's SAILOR BOYFRIEND: a late stage, synthrock outfit Andy Waldron (he/him) has been wearing since 2016, a delightfully confrontational live act, and an opportunity for you to have serious fun with issues surrounding music and labor.

Sewn together with guitarist Alex Mercuri (he/him) (Long Neck, Pom Pom Squad) in Jersey City, the project's two albums, three distinct EPs, and numerous beneft compilation appearances cumulatively sound like if Brandon Flowers (The Killers) dropped The Book of Mormon and picked up The Phantom Tollbooth.

This mesh of performance art, shtick, and rock and roll moves has shared bills with the likes of Water from Your Eyes, Ike Ufomadu, Graces Ives, River L. Ramirez, Porches and more across seventy plus gigs and counting – gracing public access television, monthly drag variety nights, and countless, no-longer-extant DIY spaces.

Andy is currently working on a collaborative, third record about faith that literalizes and plays with the 18th century industrial work song called Worksong (due sometime in 2024) in his Brooklyn apartment. He continues to bear the oddly specific deal the devil has gifted him in exchange for being unable to process dairy: a singular "tone [existing] somewhere between sincerity and absurdity" (Various Small Flames), making "space [to] dance ourselves clean of fatalism, even if for one fleeting moment" (THE DELI), and akin to "an arcade on a giant hover board [flown] to Antarctica" (SMALL ALBUMS).

He can be reached via email (preferred) at mailorboyfriend [at] gmail [dot] com and via social media on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky, and Facebook.

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Here are a few places where Andy got interviewed: video & audio.




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