Music
Tommy has released an EP with Decca Records/Universal and two LPs independently, including We All Looked Up: The Album, a companion to his New York Times bestselling novel. His videos on YouTube have over half a million views, and he’s performed at venues from Joe’s Pub to the Guggenheim Museum. Nowadays, he contents himself with writing music and performing at sexy speakeasies in LA.
For five years, I was a resident pianist and singer at the greatest cocktail bar in LA, The Varnish. The venue closed in July '24. Here’s some video from our last night.
Long ago, I won myself a record deal with Decca/Universal records. This EP was the result. I hate the original cover art, so that’s me arguing with a statue at the Getty.
This was a full length album I recorded with producer Giulio Carmassi of the Pat Metheny Group. I’m quite proud of it.
This album was written as a companion to my first novel, We All Looked Up. It features songs “written” by the characters in the book.
I made this stop-motion video for my original song “Whisper.” It was shortlisted for the YouTube Play competition, which resulted in my being invited to perform alongside OK Go at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
I used to make a lot of videos for YouTube. This is a song from my album “I Meant It To Be Sweet” about how I probably wouldn’t have liked Jesus. It’s messy but I like it.
This was the first of my videos to go “viral.” It’s embarrassing as hell, but so it goes. Back when YouTube had a single landing page, they put this on the front page, so it got some views. Forgive my bad French.