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Birth name | Macy Lee Brown[1] |
Born | 1989 (age 34–35) Juneau, Alaska, U.S. |
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Years active | 2016–present |
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Macy Rodman (born Macy Lee Brown; 1989)[8] is an American singer-songwriter, comedian, podcaster, and performance artist.[9][10] Rodman's style combines punk and rock with 90s inspired club-pop beats, eliciting comparisons to Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sinéad O'Connor, Björk, Sia, Portishead, Madonna, Liz Phair, and Courtney Love.[11][3] She has released three studio albums, The Lake (2017), Endless Kindness (2019), and Unbelievable Animals (2021).
Rodman was born in Juneau, Alaska[6] in 1989[12] and moved to New York City at age 18[13] in 2008[2] to go to the Parsons School of Design. She later dropped out.[4] Rodman is a transgender woman and started her transition shortly after moving to the city.[5] She lives in Brooklyn, New York.[14]
Rodman became involved in the Brooklyn drag scene after moving to New York[11] through DJing and performing.[15] She then began to host a weekly alternative drag show called Bathsalts.[16] In June 2022, Rodman was featured on the cover of My Comrade, an underground magazine covering drag.[17]
Rodman released her debut EP, Help, in 2016.[18] Her first two albums, The Lake and Endless Kindness, were released in 2017[19] and 2019[20] respectively, on Sweat Equity. She released two remix EPs, called Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Packs, in 2020 for her songs "Berlin" and "Vaseline".[21] Rodman signed to Shamir's Accidental Popstar Records in 2021,[11] and released her third studio album, Unbelievable Animals, the same year.[14] Rodman wrote the songs for the album during the COVID-19 lockdown.[14] The album consists of twelve songs written in the span of a month deals with heartbreak and pandemic anxiety and combines "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots, like the energy in a '90s nightclub", with "a dash of Ray of Light-esque experimental pop and Chromatica-style club bangers."[22][14] In 2022, she produced Ysak's single "Crossroads."[23] On March 4, 2022, Rodman released an EP of Unbelievable Animals remixes called Uncontrollable Flammables,[24] featuring remixes from Ariel Zetina, False Witness, Veronica Electronica, Michete, Yufi, Jim Cannon, Penelopi, So Drove, and M Zavos.[25] In 2023, she remixed Softee's song "Isn't Enough."[26][27]
Rodman hosts the improvisational comedy podcast Nymphowars with Theda Hammel.[28]
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The Lake |
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Endless Kindness |
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Unbelievable Animals |
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Uncontrollable Flammables |
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Help |
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Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Pack vol. 1: BERLIN |
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Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Pack vol. 2: VASELINE |
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"Shiny"[31] | 2018 | Shiny/My Car (split single with DJ Delish) |
"Greased Up Freak (Part 1)"[32] | 2019 | Endless Kindness |
"Love Me!"[32] | 2021 | Unbelievable Animals |
"Rock 'N' Roll Gay Guy"[33] | ||
"Punk Rock Boyfriend" (with Shamir)[34] | ||
"Hazy Shade of Winter"[35] | Non-album single |