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Monica Martin

Monica Martin is a Chicago-born singer-songwriter who grew up in rural Wisconsin, mostly waiting for Billie Holiday videos to load on back-country dial-up or making trips in a busted Geo Metro to watch punk shows in Milwaukee. Trained as a hairdresser, she didn’t have musical plans beyond joke riffing harmonies over the radio. After being coaxed by her best friend Matt, she started to sing in public and on friends’ records, which all led to her writing her own songs. She fronted experimental-folk-pop sextet, PHOX, formed in Madison, Wisconsin in 2012. PHOX released an eponymous album, played big festivals, national TV shows, and flew overseas to play shows far away from home

In Our Time

By Victor Gould

Label: Blue Room Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Blue Lotus; Lord Wallace; Dear Ralph; Resilience; Showtime; Queen Alma; Ascension; Infant Eyes; Minority; In Our Time; In Memorium.

Monica Martin: All The Feelings

by Leo Sidran
October 11, 2021

Singer, songwriter, hairdresser, amateur photographer, schtick enthusiast Monica Martin talks about discovering her musical talent in her late teens, what it means to be “Wisconsin sober," the complex and delicate dynamics of her first band Phox, her mental health struggles, why it's so expensive to be poor, the many ways that she has had to integrate ...