Anthony D’Amato. Courtesy photo. Singer-songwriter Anthony D’Amato left his job as a music publicist—where he got to work closely with the likes of St. Vincent—to pursue his own music. Since then he’s circled the globe numerous times, played countless bars and seen just enough to realize there’s more to…

“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” That question is one of the earliest lessons in kindness and compassion that a lot of us were taught, at least by the TV. I have a hard time imagining Mister Rogers thriving in the current environment, though. I suspect he’d actually be drummed…

Anthony D’Amato, courtesy. There are those who wait for their big break, and those who put themselves right in its crosshairs. Singer-songwriter Anthony D’Amato was not content to keep making music in his college dorm room and wait to be discovered. In college, at Princeton, he sought out a…