carries the slogan: “Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” If we seem like hypocrites in this moment, it is because we are. a third album to be released before the end of 2019. “I'm recording every day, making like five to 10 songs a day, mostly,” hetoldForbes After realizing his sound is much deeper than a one-man show, he decided to take a risk and switch things up a bit. "I was always doing things under my proper name—Brandon Sheer—but then I started making music that sounded so much like a band that I wanted to go under a different name," he tells us. "I ended up going up with SHEARE—my last name spelled differently. I actually hated it initially, but when I wrote it on paper I was like, 'Oh, that's not bad.' It's so difficult to come up with a name. But now I think if you're an indie artist you can pick something like 'Bookshelf' or 'Lamp' and you're still automatically the cool kid." There are many things to love about Sasha Lane, as detailed in her very impressiveVolume I cover story