ROCK’N’ROLL
CONFIDENTIAL
Ezra Furman
Heading your way soon: a woman on a mission, but not on the shabbat.
Here comes your woman: Ezra Furman moves into a different emotional space on her latest LP.
Eleanor Petry
“I LOVE BOSTON,” Ezra Furman says of her current home, where her wife’s latest job has taken them after periods in their home city of Chicago and then Oakland. “We can walk everywhere: to my kid’s school, to the grocery store, to the Rockwell Theatre where I keep playing shows; about 10 times so far. I love local music and seeing bands again and again.”
An inveterate gig-player herself, except on Fridays because of the Jewish shabbat, Furman is on tour again, bringing her fired-up mix of garage rock and Springsteen-inspired anthems to the UK in early February. As her popularity has soared, Furman has found the confidence to come out as a trans woman, inspiring an “anti-fascist trilogy” of recent albums, although her latest, 2025’s Goodbye Small Head, proved less angry, more measured. “There’s less ‘us’ on this record,” she says. “This time, it’s more like me and God alone in a room.”