Georgia Straight

A Powerclown Halloween: on singing the Village People in Japanese, Scum Element, and Shakes the Clown

There are levels of in-joke upon in-joke that are hard for even a Canadian music geek to follow, going back to the 1990s, when Whitmore and his key collaborator Fiorito—guitarist “Sketchy Clown,” and ...
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Langston Hughes Sings in 'The Black Clown'

NEW YORK — “I feel that for the first time, I have met the South,” poet Langston Hughes wrote in the winter of 1932, at the end of a monthslong, multistate reading tour designed to cultivate black ...
Tucson Weekly

A Seven-Foot-Tall Sad Singing Clown Is Coming to 191 Toole

If you’ve been on YouTube since October of last year, you’ve almost certainly seen and heard Puddles of Puddles Pity Party. He’s the giant white-faced clown who sang Lorde’s “Royals” with the ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Audrey Hobert’s ‘Who’s the Clown?’ showcases relatable melodies, broad emotional range

Released just last month, Audrey Hobert’s debut album “Who’s the Clown?” depicts the messiness of dating, body image insecurities and a fluctuating identity with blunt authenticity. Having previously ...