“Our publicist is challenged finding mainstream outlets,” says Mr. Whistle, the musician behind the band that bears his pseudonym. “Many won’t interview an anonymous source like me.”
Their subject matter is another barrier to mainstream press attention. Track Four on their new album is Nashville Manifesto, a song about the gender-confused rage of mass shooter Audrey Hale. If Whistle was to appear on television, “I picture Nashville going like [Jason] Aldean’s Try That in a Small Town,” he says.
Whistle has just started releasing tracks from Did You Know?, their follow-up to the 2023 6-track EP Sounding the Alarm. Produced in a professional multi track studio using the same anonymous session players as before, plus one keyboard player, the new album reprises their viral sensation She’s A Boy in the title track.
The song calls out men in women’s prisons, sports, apps, and spaces under the rubric of ‘gender identity.’ Skirt Go Spinny, the anonymous videomaker behind What is a Woman? Wrong …
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