Macy Rodman
American musician
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Macy Lee Brown[1][2], known professionally as Macy Rodman (born 1989)[3] is an American singer-songwriter, comedian, podcaster, writer, actor and performance artist.[4][5] Rodman's style combines punk and rock with 90s inspired club-pop beats, eliciting comparisons to Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sinéad O'Connor, Portishead, Madonna, Liz Phair, and Courtney Love.[6][7] She has released four studio albums: The Lake (2017), Endless Kindness (2019), Unbelievable Animals (2021), and Scald (2025).
Early and personal life
Rodman was born in Juneau, Alaska[8] in 1989[9] and moved to New York City at age 18[10] in 2008[11] to go to the Parsons School of Design. She later dropped out.[12] Rodman is a transgender woman and started her transition shortly after moving to the city.[13] She previously lived in Brooklyn, New York, and has since relocated to Madrid, Spain with her husband,[14] whom she married in November 2024.[15]
Career
Rodman became involved in the Brooklyn drag scene after moving to New York[6] through DJing and performing.[16] She has mentioned that she chose the stage name Macy Rodman while performing in drag as a joke, initially, stating, 'You may see rod, man,' in an older Nymphowars podcast episode. She then began to host a weekly alternative drag show called Bathsalts.[17] In 2014, Rodman designed the wigs, make up, and costumes for Femme Fatale Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists.[18] Rodman was featured on the cover of My Comrade, an underground magazine covering drag in June 2022.[19]
Rodman released her debut EP, Help, in 2016.[20] Her first two albums, The Lake and Endless Kindness, were released in 2017[21] and 2019[22] respectively, on Sweat Equity. She released two remix EPs, called Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Packs, in 2020 for her songs "Berlin" and "Vaseline".[23] Rodman signed to Shamir's Accidental Popstar Records in 2021,[6] and released her third studio album, Unbelievable Animals, the same year.[14] Rodman wrote the songs for the album during the COVID-19 lockdown.[14] The album consists of twelve songs written in the span of a month deals with heartbreak and pandemic anxiety and combines "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots, like the energy in a '90s nightclub", with "a dash of Ray of Light-esque experimental pop and Chromatica-style club bangers."[24][14] In 2022, she produced Ysak's single "Crossroads."[25] On March 4, 2022, Rodman released an EP of Unbelievable Animals remixes called Uncontrollable Flammables,[26] featuring remixes from Ariel Zetina, False Witness, Veronica Electronica, Michete, Yufi, Jim Cannon, Penelopi, So Drove, and M Zavos.[27] In 2023, she remixed Softee's song "Isn't Enough,"[28][29] and in 2024 she performed at Doll Invasion on Fire Island.[30][31] In advance of her fourth LP Scald, Rodman released the singles "TSPG69"[32] and "5 Mile Gyre"[33] in May and August, 2025, respectively. Scald was released October 10, 2025.[34][35]
Rodman hosts the improvisational comedy podcast Nymphowars with Theda Hammel.[36] In 2023, she appeared in Cole Escola's short film Our Home Out West.[37] She appeared in Darren Aronofsky's 2025 film Caught Stealing, and had her short story 'Annie the Clown' published in issue 6 of The Whitney Review magazine.[38]
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Album details |
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| The Lake |
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| Endless Kindness |
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| Unbelievable Animals |
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| Scald |
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Remix albums
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Uncontrollable Flammables |
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Extended plays
| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Help |
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| Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Pack vol. 1: BERLIN |
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| Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Pack vol. 2: VASELINE |
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Singles
| Title | Year | Album |
|---|---|---|
| "Shiny"[41] | 2018 | Shiny/My Car (split single with DJ Delish) |
| "Greased Up Freak (Part 1)"[42] | 2019 | Endless Kindness |
| "Love Me!"[42] | 2021 | Unbelievable Animals |
| "Rock 'N' Roll Gay Guy"[43] | ||
| "Punk Rock Boyfriend" (with Shamir)[44] | ||
| "Hazy Shade of Winter"[45] | Non-album single | |
| "TSPG69"[32] | 2025 | Scald |
| "5 Mile Gyre"[46] |