I write to you on May 9th- and it’s not a coincidence.
If you know this cross-quarter Holyday season, you know it’s the one that belongs to fire.
When we jump over the fire representing the ancient threshold between spring and summer, Gaia is asking us to commit — to whatever we’ve been tending, to whatever we’ve dreamed of in the dark months, to the seedlings we weren’t sure will take but we feed anyway… To walk away from what we’ve placed in the compost.
Beltane is birth and risk. Fertility and devotion.
The sacred fire within that is yours to tend — no matter what is swirling around you.
And apparently, it’s also when I release music.
I didn’t plan this pattern. But check this out:
- May 15, 2011 — Rogue
- May 1, 2018 — Silver Wheel
- May 1, 2020 — Venus Exalted EP Vol. 1
- May 12, 2026 — Jezebel
Fifteen years of returning to this same fire.
Every time, a different version of me walking through it.
Birthing the art that births me.
Jezebel is an album about that real thing.
It’s about the passion so many of us have lost — or been hypnotized to forget. The inner flame we dim because the world is loud and scary and there are a thousand reasons to play it safe.
This record is about not playing it safe.
She tells us a story about grief and devotion living in the same breath. She sings about tending your fire even when no one is watching..
Especially then.
photograph and cover design by Joe Muscatello
We named this album Jezebel after the title track.
Her archetype, like so many “dark feminine” characters — has been used for centuries to punish women who refused to shrink. Women punished for having loud feelings, for expressing rage and inconvenient grief, for loving with reckless abandon. We’re reclaiming it. Holding this prism up to the light and watching it transform us into something new. Something beautiful. Something we create together.
I hope to inspire my human family and especially my sisters to embrace their fire, their depth, their devotion, their ability to SEE — to channel the blood mystery that runs through their veins and cycles through their wombs into a life worth descending from.
May we embrace our sisterhood and lift each other up.
Listening Party
Here’s what I want to do, and it’s simple: (I’m such a Taurus)
I want us to listen to this record together.
Old school. No algorithm. No shuffle. You, me, the whole album front to back — the way music is supposed to be heard.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
6:00PM PT /9:00 PM ET · on Zoom · Free
And if you want to hang with me after, for a small donation you can grab the VIP upgrade and connect to the Post-Show afterparty once the music ends. Just us, talking, no agenda. Green Room vibes.
Oh yeah, Jezebel will be available on vinyl(!) with links to purchase at the listening party.
COME AS YOU ARE:
I invite you to become your rocker self, your strutting in the middle of the road at the middle of the night self. Your sexy rebel, your subtle badass. Your geek with an attitude. Your nerd with a flair for the dark side.
The fire is lit. I hope you’ll come sit with me.
Adey Bell
