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Dec. 22, 2022, Updated 11:22 a.m. ET

In the Village, Another Piece of the City’s History Is Coming Down

Since 1976, Denise Marsa, a singer-songwriter, has lived in her tidy studio around the corner, in the building Ms. Martin once owned at 18 Christopher Street. (She can still remember the original rent: $174.24.). She tried to help Ms. Martin in her final years, urging her to make a will, but her landlord “lived in a fairy tale,” she said.

Today, Ms. Marsa, 68, is the last residential tenant in the building, her cheerful apartment, with its kitchen tucked into a closet, an object lesson in small-space living and the promise of studio life as a launching pad. She, too, has rendered her home in song, as Comden and Green once did, in a number featured in “The Pass,” her one-woman show about making it in the big city, which she performed at United Solo, a theater festival in Manhattan, in the fall of 2021. (The storefronts below her are full; John Derian, the purveyor of his own brand of charming decay, took over the spot occupied by Mr. McGhee four years ago.) read full article

MUSICEXISTENCE “FLOAT is thoroughly more engaging than some of the other crossover singles I’ve listened to this summer largely thanks to the physicality of its mastering, which allows for the instruments to have equal footing with an otherwise overpoweringly melodic vocal from Marsa herself. She’s quite a brilliant singer, and it’s only because of the stripped-down arrangement in this track that we’re really able to appreciate how deftly she can navigate even a complicated groove that would be a lot less forgiving to anyone else who had given this same song a shot. If this is par for the course, I can’t wait to hear what she comes up with next.” – Nera Mitchell

INDIEGURUBAND “There’s a lot of buzz around Denise Marsa right now, and rightly so, but I think it’s just a sneak preview of what her career is going to look like so long as she keeps producing content on par with what we’re getting out of “FLOAT (The Cowgirl & The Alien)” right now. There’s nothing typical about what this track or its strangely warm music video are presenting to audiences, but from what I can tell about both releases, this is probably a foundation for what we’re going to hear from Marsa’s camp once more a lot sooner than later.” – Scott Carlito

INDIEPULSEMUSIC “Country music can have an urban bend, and when it does, it often feels like an entirely fresher genre altogether. Don’t get me wrong; there’s nothing the matter with having something pure in aesthetics, but singer/songwriters like Denise Marsa, who can put a spin on just about anything and make it their own, have a special place in the modern pop conversation for sure. Marsa’s new single “FLOAT (The Cowgirl & The Alien)” flirts with a lot of eclectic influences for sure, but at its core, it feels like a country-folk crossover into alternative rock territory that we didn’t even know we needed to hear this summer.” – Mindy McCall

NEUFUTUR Can you explain the process of creating the characters of the cowgirl and the alien?

ESSENTIALLYPOP What’s your take on the music business as it is now? What can, and should be changed, and how can it be done?

VENTMAGAZINE What is one of the most important lessons you have learned during your lengthy and versatile career in music?