Franklin Bruno is an American singer-songwriter, academic, writer, and blogger originally from Upland, California. He has been a member of Nothing Painted Blue since its inception in 1986.
Bruno writes music criticism for The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Thought Catalog and Salon.com. He received a doctorate in philosophy from UCLA and has been a visiting professor of philosophy at Bard College.
In addition to his own recordings, Bruno worked on The Mountain Goats albums Tallahassee and The Sunset Tree. He also records with The Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle as The Extra Lens. Jenny Toomey and Calexico released Tempting, a collection of Bruno's songs, on Misra Records in December 2002.
Civics, the first album by Bruno's new band, The Human Hearts, was released by Tight Ship Records in 2007.
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