JB’s

  • Elke on Love, Moving, and “Old Music” (3/8 at JB’s w/ Natalie Bergman)

    March 5, 2022
    “People are like, ‘It sounds so Nashville,’ but it’s funny because I had only been there for a year… and I’m in LA now,” says Kayla Graninger, laughing, during a recent phone chat (going on to note that she’s also lived outside of Chicago, Pennsylvania, Las Vegas, and New...

  • Mattiel’s Leather Americana… Or, Georgia Gothic (3/1 at JB’s)

    February 21, 2022
    Mattiel’s upcoming third LP, Georgia Gothic, will likely earn the award for 2022’s most straightforward album title.  The album’s cover features Mattiel Brown and Jonah Swilley donning red-leather suits (of sorts) and grasping pitchforks in a sort of space-age, fetish homage to Grant Wood’s famous painting.  The 11 tacks...

  • The Harmaleighs: “We are ready to rock.” (2/15 at JB’s w/ Lilly Hiatt)

    February 8, 2022
    It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Nashville-based (traditionally acoustic) folk pop duo The Harmaleighs.  August of 2019 saw the release of She Won’t Make Sense, the sophomore LP from Haley Grantwho (lead vocals and guitar) and Kaylee Jasperson (bass and backup vocals), which had the band working...

  • Fenster and “high philosophy, trashy aesthetics, and poignant reflections”

    March 4, 2014
    NYC/Berlin quartet Fenster have apparently been through even more than I realized between the release of their 2012 debut, Bones, and their follow-up, The Pink Caves, which is out today on morrmusic.  The hyper-mystical, hyper-moody, and hyper-postmodern indie pop outfit kick off a string of US dates tonight at...

  • Madi Diaz: This Winter’s Warmest Entity

    January 15, 2012
    Madi Diaz’s Plastic Moon is semi-officially my first favorite album of 2012.  The album is out January 24th on Small Horse Records, and Madi herself will be previewing the new material this coming Thursday, January 19th, at Johnny Brenda’s.  I recently chatted with the singer/songwriter about what she was...