Jim Andralis’ songs shine a light into the heart’s darker crevices and discover the beauty there, or at least make whatever’s been hiding there feel less lonely. A New York City singer and songwriter whose other full-time job is as a trauma-focused psychotherapist in private practice, Andralis performs regularly with husband/hunk Larry Krone and co-hosts country music variety show Grand Ole Pubry at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. His band Jim Andralis & the Syntonics opened for Bikini Kill at NYC’s Irving Plaza and closed the Joe’s Pub 2023 Gala by performing a song Andralis wrote for their friend, Joe’s Pub Vanguard Residency honoree Barbara Maier Gustern. 

Jim Andralis began writing and performing filthy, tender, queer pop songs in the early aughts as part of popular NYC punk band The Isotoners.  In 2008 he became a regular featured performer in Joe’s Pub’s monthly variety show, Our Hit Parade.  Andralis’ 2016 solo debut, Your Dying Wish Come True, garnered critical acclaim with The Miami Herald christening it, “One of the best solo debut discs of the year.”  In teaming up with friends and vocalists The Syntonics, he honed his sound with Shut Up Shut Up [2018] and My Beautiful Enemy [2020], incorporating lush harmonies and ethereal ache into his recordings and performances. Among many collaborations, Andralis has teamed up with Bridget Everett [Somebody Somewhere, Patti Cake$] on “Hit the Ground Fuckin’” and lent his voice to Champagne Jerry’s The Champagne Room alongside the likes of Everett, Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz [The Beastie Boys] and Murray Hill.  He released his fourth LP, I Can’t Stop Trying, in 2022, and a stripped EP, September, in 2023.  

Jim Andralis’ fifth LP is coming this August. Ghosts will contain eleven songs about grief, exploring whatever connections may or may not exist between the living and those who have passed. “Something in me cannot fathom that people can exist one second and be gone the next.  I hate it.  It happens all the time and it always levels me.  And music somehow is the answer.  When I sing, I connect with all of them, all of me, and anyone listening who’s willing to go there with me.”