J Lind

J Lind is a songwriter and touring artist from Phoenix, now based in New York City. Lind studied philosophy at Princeton and Oxford before touring full-time, performing everywhere from grunge venues and hospital chapels to Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium. His projects wrestle with unconventional themes—hospice, addiction, an evolving faith—and his pointed storytelling has captured live audiences across the US, UK, and Canada.

In “Rotations” (out June 6, 2025), Lind confronts his own family’s experience of the American opioid epidemic. Written and recorded between the hours of 4 and 7 a.m. during a year of intensive clinical rotations as a medical student at Weill Cornell Medicine, the record draws on Lind’s lived experience in conversation with the voices of patients encountered in Manhattan’s clinics, emergency rooms, and addiction treatment centers. Blending Sufjan-style chamber folk, Springsteen’s raw grit, and the metamodern wit of artists like Dawes and Vampire Weekend, "Rotations" tells the sweeping story of a country in crisis—each track complicating our understanding of responsibility and blame, both personal and collective.