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“You can expect that it is going to be joyful circle work, where the audience is as much a part of the show as we are,” says Canadian-born/Nashville-based singer/songwriter and activist Allison Russell of her band’s current live show. “I came up in roots music/Americana music, and it’s always...
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Our phriends in Australian indie folk outfit The Paper Kites – who we’ve been covering since 2013, and have played shows at Johnny Brenda’s, World Café Live, MilkBoy, Underground Arts, and First Unitarian Church – released their sixth full-length this September. The LP, At The Roadhouse, is a concept album,...
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Last April we saw Ariel Engle, AKA La Force, opening things up for Canadian indie folk singer/songwriter Leif Vollebekk at The Music Hall at World Café Live. Engle — perhaps best known for her time as a vocalist in Broken Social Scene over the course of the past decade...
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“I’m excited to kick it off in Philly! I don’t know that I’ve ever started a tour in Philly, starting where my roots are!” says ZZ Ward. The Bucks County native – whose parents grew up in the area and who lived there herself until she was around eight,...
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Surely most of our readers are well aware that today has far greater significance than simply being the fourth day in the seventh month of our year… It’s Alice in Wonderland Day! July 4th was the day that Lewis Carroll first told Alice Liddell his most famous story! Fittingly,...
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This past week, in an interview for Paste, singer/songwriter Laura Stevenson – who you may have most recently seen performing Neil Young covers at the First Unitarian Church, alongside fellow former Bomb the Music Industry! member Jeff Rosenstock – admitted to being a big fan of local celeb. M....
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Next week Donovan Woods and Henry Jamison kick off The Husbandry Tour, a tour which is apparently more or less just an excuse for the two singer/songwriters to hang out and develop a friendship under the guise of “working.” And Thursday, April 13th, will bring Woods and Jamison (along...
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“I’m just making the shit I wanna do, and I sense that freedom in the record,” Kimbra tells me of her latest album during a Zoom chat earlier this month. That record is A Reckoning, the New Zealand art pop musician’s fourth LP and first to be released independently. ...
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“What’s pleasantly surprising about these shows… is having people come up to us at the merch table and say things like, ‘I usually don’t like this kind of music,’ meaning pop music,” says Kristin Slipp, laughing. Slipp is likely best-known as a member of Cuddle Magic and The Dirty...
“You can expect that it is going to be joyful circle work, where the audience is as much a part of the show as we are,” says Canadian-born/Nashville-based singer/songwriter and activist Allison Russell of her band’s current live show. “I came up in roots music/Americana music, and it’s always...
