Czars of Leisure is the recording and musical project fronted by Greg Roth, a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist producing “thrift store rock”, mixing the secondhand stylings of 70s power pop, 80s new wave, 90s college/slacker alternative, and 00s indie/garage rock. A former rock journalist and political speechwriter, his music has been described as “the quirkiness of Elvis Costello, the storytelling of Tom Waits, and the alt-country styling of Wilco” (Indie Music Stop). It’s been described other ways as well.