The 30-something audience formed a line outside the Tractor well before doors. Several hours later, Vanessa Carlton took the stage. She started off with a few oldies, then essentially played her new and fifth album, Liberman, start to finish. And while not on the set list in front of me at her feet – and […]
Road trip! The Colbie Caillat/Christina Perri co-headlining tour didn’t stop in Seattle, so I went north to the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, Canada. It was the last night of their six-week Girls Night Out, Boys Can Come Too tour with 7000 attendees at the sold-out show. Although it rained throughout the outdoor performance, the […]
“I was born in 96 and I like pie.” That’s a quote from Soren Bryce, a young Texan singer-songwriter. We support an endorsement for pie, and recommend Bryce. After moving to Los Angeles at the age of 14, Bryce has a wide variety of music interests; Bryce mentions twenty one pilots as an artist she’d […]
You’ll probably assume the moniker Mr Little Jeans applies to a man, but Mr Little Jeans is actually Norwegian singer-songwriter Monica Birkenes. And why not select a name from the film Rushmore? Mr Little Jeans worked with producer Lester Mendez (Dane Oh Land’s producer) on her debut, Pocketknife. When she played the Crocodile in November, […]
JoJo‘s sold-out show at Neumos was at the halfway point in her 23 city North American I Am JoJo Tour. In 2004, JoJo released her self-titled debut album, with the single, “Leave (Get Out)”. At age 13, she was the youngest artist to have a #1 song on the Billboard Pop Songs chart. Fast forward […]