Indie rock band led by Michael C. Hall spreads its wings

NEW YORK — This might one day be a trivia question: Which rock band with a celebrity frontman and a very long name was one of the last acts to play live in New York before the city shut down in 2020? They’re like, ‘I didn’t know what to expect, but it wasn’t that,” jokes Hall during an interview in the band club house, a converted apartment in a Greenwich Village building that’s crowded with instruments. She said, ‘Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum.’ I said, ‘That’s such a cool name, I want to use it for my band.’ She was into that idea.” The members like long band names, citing The Velvet Underground, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Queens of the Stone Age and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. “We don’t consciously set out to sound like anything or anyone but inevitable it’s an amalgamation of our conscious and unconscious influences,” says Hall, who has performed Bowie songs onstage in “Lazarus.” They make music with whatever’s handy in Yanowitz’s converted club house — computers, a Rhodes piano and drums. “I think people initially came to check us out for various reasons but have returned because they’re into the band,” says Hall.