#deadfellow

In each edition of Stage Presence, we talk with different artists, producers, and other creative individuals who make up indie + alternative culture.

ALBUM INTERVIEW: We talked with Deadfellow about his latest record, 'Mescalifornia: A California Dream,' now out digitally.

Deadfellow--Millennials in Love

We’ll meet by the convenience 

of this golden online age, 

but only after we make sure 

 that all our interests are the same 

 And you’ll say something suggestive 

so I’ll suggest that we meet up 

in that neighborhood we gentrified 

 with the brewery restaurant 

 Where you’ll tell me that you moved here 

for the first job you could get 

Sure, it’s not the work you’d hoped for — 

It’s your crushing student debt 

And we’ll sit and drink and talk about 

How our mothers drink too much 

Baby is this what it means to be 

 Millennials in love? 

 We’ll get an apartment — 

too soon according to our friends 

We’ll spin it as pragmatic 

 justified by splitting rent 

And we’ll build our home together 

like the ones on the internet 

full of crowdsourced personality — 

hanging plants and a pallet bed 

 Then you’ll start growing distant 

 and more protective of your phone 

 You’ll spend more time at your parents 

 until you move your things back home 

And I’ll hear you reconnected 

 with some long lost high school crush 

Baby is this what it means to be 

Millennials in love? 

 And sometimes babe you’ll call me 

to say you’ve been good on your own 

and other times you’ll text 

because you’re drinking and alone 

 and you’ll say something so obvious 

like “hey you, are you up?” 

Maybe this is what it means to be 

Millennials in love 

Deadfellow Reflects on Love During The End of World in New Music

Photo credit to Kelia Ideishi

Singer-songwriter Deadfellow (the nom de plume of Hayden Sammak) has been through some changes recently. He moved to West Philly, switched his management, and is about to release new music that will end the three-album saga he released to critical acclaim last year.

“It’s the nail in the proverbial coffin [of the trilogy],” he says of the untitled album. “There’s…