King Woman

  • Anika: “The music does its own thing.” (5/29 at JB’s)

    May 24, 2022
    Last year British-born, Berlin-based post-punk-leaning, avant-garde singer/songwriter Anika (real name Annika Henderson) released Change, her second solo album and first since 2010, on Sacred Bones.  In September we chatted about the album (which was inspired in equal parts by ‘90s alternative music, the current state of politics, the pandemic,...

  • Russian Circles: “Just write good songs and bash them out as hard as you can.” (Sun. at UT)

    October 24, 2019
    Although they’ve apparently been trying to slow their touring, shortly after the August release of their seventh studio LP, Blood Year, Chicago post-metal instrumental trio Russian Circles quickly returned to the road.  The band spent the second half of September touring with support from their local peers in FACS,...