Bardo Martinez//Chicano Batman

“If I’m drawing a lot, I’m writing a lot. Those two processes are closely connected.”—Bardo Martinez

Bardo Martinez of Chicano Batman is, in his words, the “supreme doodler.”

I cannot imagine a moment in Bardo Martinez's day when he's not creating something. The Chicano Batman frontman is always thinking of his next song. He might be running, longboarding, sitting under a tree, or even reading to his two young kids. It doesn't matter—there's a song in that head. Even when he’s performing, Martinez is coming up with song ideas: in his first show since quarantine (a solo show to support his new solo album), he had to rush home afterwords to start writing down all those ideas running through his head as he was playing.

Martinez has a new solo album out called Everywhere Reminds Me of Space. Chicano Batman's most recent album is Invisible People (ATO records). Watch my interview with Bardo Martinez below!