B. Dolan

B. Dolan's first performances took place at New York City's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where he gained respect as part of HBO's Def Poetry in 2002 and won numerous slam titles. He has since distanced himself from and criticized slam poetry. In 2011, he told the Boston Phoenix:Doing spoken word was the first time I ever tried to present my writing on a stage, and that's what it was good for. It taught me some basic stage tricks that I still use — like how to change my voice and talk to a crowd. But once you've picked up those chops, you need to get the hell out before you become some asshole who wins the poetry slam for the 10th year in a row. In 2011, B. Dolan created the package show The Church of Love & Ruin, which combined activism and art by bringing openly LGBTQ performers into the arena of hip hop, in an attempt to address homophobia in rap. On July 10, 2015, B. Dolan released his third studio album, entitled Kill the Wolf, on Speech Development and Strange Famous Records. This was followed with a world tour, visiting the US, UK and Europe. ==Knowmore.org==

As an activist, B. Dolan is known primarily as a co-founder of Knowmore.org, a wiki devoted to connecting consumers with social responsibility information about corporations. He is also an author of several articles within the website. He is especially known for an article on American Apparel's CEO Dov Charney. In 2008, due to a lack of workers and funds, Dolan decided to take the site down. In 2016 he started a funding page to redesign the site and get it up and running again. ==Film work==

B. Dolan co-wrote, appeared briefly in, and composed music for the 2015 independent horror film Almost Mercy, directed and co-written by Tom DeNucci. He subsequently co-wrote and composed the score for the 2019 crime-thriller Vault, also directed and co-written by DeNucci. ==Discography==

Studio albums • The Failure (2003) [reissued via Strange Famous, 2007] • Fallen House, Sunken City (Strange Famous, 2010) (produced by Alias) • Kill the Wolf (Strange Famous, 2015) • This Was Supposed to Be Fun (Strange Famous, 2019) (with Sage Francis, as Epic Beard Men) • The Wound Is Not the Body (2024) • Fight Naked (Glaring Typo, 2026) EPs • Live Evel (2008) • Season 1 (2018) (with Sage Francis, as Epic Beard Men) Mixtapes • House of Bees Vol. 1 (2009) (with Buddy Peace) • House of Bees Vol. 2 (2012) (with Buddy Peace) • House of Bees Vol. 3 (2015) (with Buddy Peace) • Unjustified: Man of the Peckerwoods (2018) Film scores • The Vault (2021) Remix albums • F.H.S.C. Remixes: Desert Sessions (Strange Famous, 2013) (with Buddy Peace) • Kill the Wolf Remix LP (Strange Famous, 2021) (with Buddy Peace) • Fused: Selected Remixes from the Discord Community (2022) Live albums • Antiquiet Sessions #24 (2015) [EP] • We Show Up: Live Recordings 2013-2015 (2016) Guest appearances • Sage Francis - "The Failure Disc 2 #6" on Sickly Business (2004) • Sage Francis - "Broccilude" & "High Step" on Human the Death Dance (2007) • Prolyphic & Reanimator - "Survived Another Winter" on The Ugly Truth (2008) • Sage Francis - "House of Bees", "Sea Legs" & "SFR Pays Dues" on Sick of Wasting (2009) • Sole - "Fuck Wells Fargo" on Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel (2011) • Scroobius Pip - "Soldier Boy (Kill 'Em)" on Distraction Pieces (2011) • Dan le sac - "Caretaker" and "Good Time Gang War" on Space Between the Words (2012) • Sage Francis - "You Can't Win" on Sick To D(eat)h (2013) • Cas One vs Figure - "Burn It Down" on ''So Our Egos Don't Kill Us'' (2017) • Aupheus - "Run the Machine (Redux)" on Megalith (2018) • Sammy Warm Hands - "Buckshot" on Figures of Speech (2018) • MC Lars & Mega Ran - "1984" on The Dewey Decibel System (2019) ==Filmography==

• Almost Mercy (2015) - screenwriter, composer, actor • Vault (2019) - screenwriter, composer ==References==