Diane Gentile songs are life are abstractions, with sharp wordplay and juicy narratives. Diane & The Gentle Men’s latest, The Bad and the Beautiful, on Velvet Elk Records, is a scrapbook, featuring endearing but poetically flawed protagonists sketched with Diane’s literate flair and doused in classic NYC rock n’ roll swagger. The album was produced by Diane with Merle Chornuk w/added production by James Maddock, Jesse Malin, and Oscar Albeis Rodriguez. Diane's writing is informed by artists and literary legends. The distant lyrics of David Bowie, the honesty of Lucinda Williams, the danceability of the Rolling Stones, the realism of Henrick Ibsen, and the tragic drama of William Shakespeare are some of the content that has shaped her creativity.  Her sensibility is further rounded by the attitude and emotionality of punk rock - a culture she's been intimately a part of for years in NYC.  She's a fixture around town as a performer and a taste-making music junky. Diane and the Gentle Men have opened forSteve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Jesse Malin, Tommy Stinson (The Replacements). Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet, etc.. Her videos have debuted on Rollingstone.com, and Diane’s previous releases included a single, “Motorcycle,” that was awarded Little Steven’s“Coolest Song in the World” on Underground Garage Sirius XM channel. “ She credits The Gentle Men - all the players she works with live and in recording and rehearsing, for making the songs come alive!