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“I’m really excited to overshare and laugh and cry with you tonight!” said Maddie Zahm, one song into her performance from the semi-stage of The Lounge at World Café Live this past Saturday night.  The 24-year-old singer/songwriter sold-out the 220-capacity space in less than an hour (faster than Billie...

“Izzy, I’m so excited for the light show!” says indie pop singer/songwriter Caroline Rose, who embarks on their biggest headlining tour yet at the end of this month, which includes an April 11th stop at Union Transfer.  I first met Caroline Rose in January of 2014, when they had...

Earlier this week, impressively eclectic 23-year-old singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Elise Trouw had a bit of a milestone when she returned to The Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado.  “The last time I was there I was the opening act, so it’ll be cool to be back at the same place...

Polyvinyl indie folk artist Ella Williams, better known as Squirrel Flower, has the unique distinction of being the very last artist I got to see perform live before the pandemic shut down any and all legitimate forms of live musical performance for a year-and-a-half.  Squirrel Flower was headlining The...

Earlier this month London-based singer/songwriter Naima Bock (formerly of Goat Girl) released “Lines,” a stand-alone single on Sub Pop/Memorials of Distinction.  The track was engineered and produced by Ali Chant in 2022, and is the follow-up to Bock’s solo debut, Giant Palm (released last year on Sub Pop), which...

“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. ...

Last December Montreal indie rock outfit Stars treated the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection to a seasonal spectacular at World Café Live as part of their annual North American holiday shows.  The 24-song set included covers of Christmas classics by the likes of The Pretenders and The...

The last time the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection saw The Greeting Committee was just this February, when they headlined The Lounge at World Café Live after selling out the venue almost immediately.  However, the Kanas City indie rockers are already prepped for their return, when they...

“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...