[From All Music.com] Led by the heartbroken, ethereal vocals of songwriter Adam Klopp, Choir Boy merges shimmering '80s pop and new wave inspirations with a brooding indie sensibility. The project's debut album, Passive with Desire, appeared in 2016.
The Choir Boy moniker was inspired by insults directed at Klopp as he fronted various bands in Cleveland during his teens. A onetime Mormon, he left Ohio after high school to attend college in Utah, forming Choir Boy in the mid-2010s. Fleshing out his demos with a full band that included vocalist Katrina Marie Ricks Peterson, guitarist Bret Meisenbach, keyboardist Kyle Hooper, bass player Chaz Costello, and drummer Jacob Hall, Passive with Desire saw release on Team Love Records in 2016.
In 2009 the addition of Avery, a fire-breathing, accordion and washboard player, as well as Jayke Orvis (formerly of the .357 String Band) on mandolin and banjo, prompted The Goddamn Gallows to explore many new directions with their songwriting and in their live performances. As evidenced on their most recent 2009 album, Ghost of The Rails, and as witnessed by their spectacular and tireless live shows, The Goddamn Gallows began to forge a path founded on their very own brand of contagious primeval 
abandon: an unpretentious and from-the-gut carnivalesque smorgasbord of parts old time revival, circus sideshow, and good old-fashioned rock and roll.
The result falls dead center into a head on collision between something like a Western honky-tonk impromptu parking lot rodeo, and Suburbia (the 1983 Penelope Spheeris cult classic film). Though still officially Michigan-based, they have toured relentlessly since 2007, practically living out of their van and regularly performing as many as 200 dates a year. They continue to rapidly grow a devoted following built on their visceral and volatile blend of multiple American music styles, and frantic live energy - but still with just enough hardcore and punk influence to make your parents hate it. Read more @first-avenue.com