Caroline Polacheck

  • Getting Lost with Washed Out

    Would you know what I meant if I said that something resembled a film adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis novel?  Well, last Thursday night, February 10th, Underground Arts resembled a film adaptation of a Bret Easton Ellis novel.  The charmingly seedy basement venue, normally the home to punks,...
  • Soccer Mommy Fills Union Transfer

    It’s well established that an indie act has officially “made it” when no one in attendance to one of their sold-out shows seems to have ever attended a concert before…  This was certainly the case for Soccer Mommy’s September 18th stop at Union Transfer, which had what appeared to...
  • lùisa: “Third albums are always the best.”

    Ironically, lùisa’s third LP, New Woman, actually has the German singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist exploring a bevvy of vintage sounds.  The album, which deals with female-oppression-turned-empowerment on both a personal level and a sociopolitical level, borrows sonic sentiments from a lot of the best intellectual pop of the 1980s, making...