We put out Rock and Roll as a split release between Friends Records and my label, Cold Rhymes Records. Mickey Free and Frank Yaker had equal hands in recording and mixing it. It took two years to make. For the first time, I played most of the instruments myself.
This album has some of my best songs. I see this record as the end of my guitar-based period of songwriting that I had been working on since 2008. This record received more press than any past project of mine. It was noticed by stereogum, rollingstone.com, noisey and other sites like that.
Ways and Means came with these two tight videos for the album…