Franklin Bruno

Franklin Bruno is a musician and writer, raised in Southern California’s Inland Empire and based in Jackson Heights, Queens. He has released a dozen albums of original songs as a member of Nothing Painted blue, as a solo artist, and with the Human Hearts, whose most recent release is Another (Shrimper), and recorded or performed with the Mountain Goats, Laura Cantrell, and Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. He is the author of a monograph on Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces, in Continuum’s 33 1/3 series, and a poetry collection, The Accordion Repertoire (Edge). Other scholarly and critical writing has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Popular Music and Society, The Oxford American, The Believer, and two volumes of Da Capo’s Best Music Writing series. He is currently completing a book on bridges in pop music for Wesleyan University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UCLA, and teaches symbolic logic at SUNY Purchase.