Perfume Genius strikes again

Mondays are dreary, but it needn’t always be so.

My Monday antidote showed up this morning in the form of a new video by Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius. Xtra recently interviewed Hadreas about his career, his attention-grabbing video featuring pornstar Arpad Miklos and more. Well, the genius is continuing his ascent with his latest video for “Dark Parts.” Check it out.

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