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Apr
30
Betsy Olson
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“A lot of my songs are blues-based and guitar driven. For me, it’s more about the feeling that the sound of the song gives you. I would hope that it gets you to tap your foot and think about how that crazy fool broke your heart!” Read more
Apr
30
NPR Music calls her “soft as an old shawl.” Sub-Pop Records labels her country-noir, indie ling coined in the attempt to disassociate the term country from connotations of Toby Keith, Martina McBride and Dodge Ram advertisements. Sera Cahoone\’s graceful lo-fi alternative-country canters half-way back to the classic 70’s folk movement with a soft firm drum and a strong alto and wedges the rest of her music in comfy blue-grass denim. “I got my own style! BAM!” she says, and then acknowledges her favorite decade. Read more
Apr
21
Alexis Gideon: Antics/Musics
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The sticks hit the timpani with a simple tap to start a song, beat beat beat. You can almost see a smirk form in the corner of the drummer’s mouth as the beat intensifies and an electronica symphony elides into the beat. The start of an Alexis Gideon piece of schizo-rap is like catching the moment when Fred Astaire simultaneously alights onto a set and a song and discovers Read more
Mar
12
Ashley Eriksson, musician and songstress of Lake the Band, balanced an instrument that looked like a flexible candelabra during a couple of songs at their recent show at the Fontee Fest in Anacortez, WA. “I thought it was this weird, random sculpture that was in the back of this really creepy old house that I lived at,” she explained, but, being the artist that she is, Ashley ignored the ghosts and saw the potential for musicality. Now, the Garden Bells are a definitive piece of Lake’s extra-ordinary charm. As Ashley said, “We like to be eclectic, we like to connect with people.”
The seven members of Lake share a connection that spreads through the audience. Each member is a unique artist on his own right. Read more
