ABOUT ME
I’m Lainey, leader of art rock band Schooltree, and now, in pandemic and post-pandemic (whenever that happens) life, I'm a livestreamer over on Twitch. I’m a classically trained musician and audio professional, who also somehow stumbled her way into comedy and vaudeville. I've clocked hundreds of hours of stage time in both the music and comedy genres. I'm at my best when I’m working on something epic that’s making me miserable.

My band Schooltree is best known for our epic art rock opera Heterotopia. I was awarded a grant from the Boston Foundation and Schooltree won PROG magazine's Best Unsigned Artist of 2018, if you care about accolades, not me I never crave validation nope never have lolololol. We did a successful run of shows and sold out our first printing. We made a lot of new friends and sent copies of the album all over the world.

Pre-pandemic I was working on a new, different album with Schooltree, reinventing our sound and my process. We were about 3/4 of the way done with that album and just starting to track vocals when the pandemic hit and I got Covid (longhauler edition). It's been a slow recovery for me, in a world that's become unrecognizable from what it was just a couple years ago. I now run a Twitch channel and do livestreams every week, where I've connected with many new friends and found a new platform.

WHAT IS PATREON?
Patreon is a membership platform in which fans can support their favorite artists directly by becoming patrons of their work while it's being made. Instead of having to wait for an album, I can share what I'm working on, including stuff that doesn't make it into final releases, and you get to see how I work and be a part of a community that helps make that work possible.

As a patron, you'll get access to every episode ever of my music & chaos livestream LSTTV (I'm the LSt), entry in and a special role in our community Discord, all releases in advance, behind-the-scenes access, personal stuff about me, and exclusive patron-only content. You can get into my secret projects and new stuff before anyone else, keep up with what I’m up to, learn more about me, ask questions, hang out, and even get to know each other, if you want to. You can be as involved as you choose. I'll listen to what you want to see here, and we'll shape this thing together.

Thanks for taking the time to consider joining this community!

~Lainey