Folks who I’m close with know that I have a band called The Cancellations, started several years ago with my partner Joe and one of our best friends, Derek Brady. Derek was a killer guitarist & all-around wonderful weirdo. He passed away a couple months before we moved to Nashville in 2018. I’d held out…
![Four musicians in a black & white music video](https://elliemaybe.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-01-at-4.42.56-PM-850x471.png)
“Ghosted” – new release from Dark Songs 2020
This was the only bottle spin I did for Dark Songs this year, but it turned out badass. We had a little trouble getting rolling, but when we heard the “snippet” version of this that Loren had created, we knew it deserved to be fleshed out into a full song. Hear & watch all of…
![Creepy clown Ellie crawls through the woods](https://elliemaybe.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-30-at-2.35.44-PM-850x493.png)
“This Is Not Over” – New Release from Dark Songs 2020
I’ve loved this tune since it was written by my good “song family” friends Andrea Wittgens & Vincent Gates back at Dark Songs 2012. It has the #crazyexgirlfriend vibe, which may or may not have been my, uh, signature back then. Since the festivals have gone virtual, the writers have been doing tributes (aka covers)…
![A teddy bear sits on a bowed wooden bench in a field.](https://elliemaybe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/teddy-2977694_1280.jpg)
on the selfishness of living childfree
I recall getting into a heated philosophical discussion with my roommate over why I couldn’t get into a scifi show he was binging. The premise: a litany of sexy ladies in skimpy space outfits and other human characters float through space on a ship many years after Earth has been destroyed. Pretty standard, right? Well,…
![Millenials sit around a shared aparment. Text on the wall and floor says, "Much has been given. Much is experienced."](https://elliemaybe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/opportunity-1804472_1920.jpg)
millennial career dysphoria and the crisis of aging in an undervalued workforce
Some friends stayed with us for a week. After the requisite beer-and-whiskey emotional loosening of discussion, we fell onto career topics. Chorlad (not his real name, or a real name at all for that matter) works in customer service. The typical phone + desk = getting yelled at 9-5 that many of our brethren have…