The singer-pianist/wunderkind/animal-rights activist/Broadway actor/unabashed Doris Day fan Nellie McKay is one of this country's finest songwriters, with a talent for marrying the airiest and most winsome pop melodies with intelligently subversive lyrics, all of it arranged in sophisticated, jazzy arrangements. In the past, she's protested our patriarchal society ("Mother of Pearl") and Columbia Universit's brutal animal experiments ("Columbia Is Bleeding"), employing a devastatingly cutting wittiness to eviscerate evildoers under the guise of inescapably frothy pop hooks and a charmingly innocent sly smile. Her fifth... More >>>