Stereo Embers: The Podcast

“Freaking Love Songs” I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum,” Liz Phair once said. "Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately." Our bedrooms are private places—not in the way your thinking—I mean, that’s true but that’s not what were talking about today. Today we’re talking about the fact that there is something about our bedrooms that inspires creativity. Maybe it’s the privacy or the comfort or the familiarity of the space—who knows? But one thing is for sure: we kind of crush it in the bedroom. Not in the way you're thinking, but you know what we mean. We do good work there. Work that is personal, vulnerable, but also strong and assured. And that work, intimate as it may be ever now and then, to quote Joseph Campbell, goes from the private to the public. Like our pal Liz Phair, for example. And our new pal Pynkie, who you’re about to meet today. So the New Jersey born Pinkie is cut from that very same Liz Phair cloth. Her bedroom creations are w