All good things must come to an end. It has been a distinct pleasure to create something as well received and glittery fun as Mattachine Social.  I had been carrying around the name since 1997 when it was once the title of a solo record and somehow years later it would resurface in the wake of my dissolving my short lived French band A is for Accident with the lovely Julie Baird.  I returned to my career in film , recording sporadically over the following year only to find myself with a handful of actual songs, not films scores in late 2010.  I met Justin Warner through the Hump! Festival where we both had films submitted (the origin story we have both told a hundred in interviews at this point). I invited Justin to sing on a track “Alexander” I had written and then another “Scorpio Rising” Justin added a verse. And suddenly we were writing songs… “Last Night “ followed then “Risers” . I enlisted guitarist Ben Jansen whom I knew socially and the original seed of Mattachine Social played their first show at Crush. Miss Tammy Whynot was our MC who quickly became our Nico. We were often jokingly Tammy and the Whynots.  Mattachine Social began as a way for me to focus my education in feminist and queer theory into pop music; LGBT history into song.  If you ever decided to find out more about Kenneth Anger, Alexander the Great, Charles Darwin, or any of the lovers mentioned in the song “Lovers” then mission accomplished.