Music

“Anything you need to know about me I feel like you really can learn from the music,” Los Angeles-based alt-pop singer/songwriter OSTON tells me during a recent interview.  OSTON – who has toured alongside our phriends VÉRITÉ and The Greeting Committee and written a song with our good buddy...

“I’m very sorry for the delay.  Thank you for your patience,” says Jessica Pratt as she sits down in a chair center stage at the Music Hall at World Café Live this past Friday night.  The show – the Los Angeles-based folk singer/songwriter’s first headlining performance in the City...

“You are gonna see an all-girl two-piece band up there .  I usually have a guitarist with me, but for this I will be playing electric for the whole set… but you’ll experience all of the ups and downs of a normal set,” says pop artist Laur Elle of...

“What’s important to us is touring and playing live.  We put these albums out so we can keep playing and touring…  I thought if we could go to Europe once it would be great, but it’s been like 10 times over,” laughs Mathieu Ball, guitarist and co-founder of Montreal...

“I love supporting any band that’s doing intelligent pop music.  I feel like the dream would be like Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, Belle & Sebastian… Alex G, that would be a really fun tour,” says Joe Stevens, founder and songwriter of Los Angeles avant-pop outfit Peel Dream Magazine (Yes, named...

“I’m so excited to play that show.  That’s definitely gonna be a huge thing.  I don’t wanna say it’s all about me, in like a narcissistic way , but I really want it to be a showstopper,” says locally grown pop singer/songwriter Ciara Grace of her upcoming CD Release...

“The first time I was in Philly, I had a cheesesteak five minutes before I went onstage, which was the worst decision of my life,” Sydney Sprague tells me, laughing.  However, the indie pop singer/songwriter has had some more enjoyable experiences playing the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly...

“You forget that places like Philly and California have a lot of people who love country,” Kaitlin Butts tells me during a recent phone chat.  At the time, the Nashville-based, Oklahoma-bred singer/songwriter is about half-a-dozen dates into The Roadrunner! Tour, which will be making a headlining stop at MilkBoy...

“We got a writeup that called it an ode to 2005, and I was like, ‘They knew exactly what I was going for,’ like, they’re really picking up what I’m putting down!” laughs Lleen Dow, founder, frontperson, and as-of-recently sole constant member of Portland-based, aughts-emo-flavored indie rock outfit Thank...