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Here is a collection of photos from the release show on April 28, 2017, for Sun Cop's debut album When You Hear The Drum You May Speak. Vinyl pre-orders are still up and will ship out mid-June. All photos taken by Diana Bowden and Alex Manley. BUNNY (A. Manley) BUNNY MERCH (D. Bowden)   MERCH MOM DIANA (A. Manley) FAR OUT CHERRY MAN (A. Manley) PAUL CHERRY BAND (D. Bowden) MARK of SUZIE (D. Bowden) SUZIE (D. Bowden) ANDREW, SUN COP (A. Manley) SUN COP (D. Bowden) JOSH, SUN COP (D. Bowden)Listen to Sun Cop! Listen to Suzie! Listen to Paul Cherry! Listen to Bunny!  

My name is Elizabeth. I am a Chicago-based writer and poet. I was born and raised in Chicago, first in Lincoln Park, and then, when I was 12, our family schlepped south to Hyde Park. In my earliest years of adolescence, I was self-conscious and lonely. I viewed myself as strange, an outsider from the other girls who seemed to be confident in the way they carried themselves, who congregated on the playground and weren't afraid of their own girlhood. I began creating to cope with the adult pieces of my life that began to intrude on my childhood.  During...