Though modeling might sound like a dream job to some, Carmen Hillestad looked the part in front of the camera, but was all the while dreaming of another fantasy occupation. Music was always on her mind, beckoning her to abandon the silence of magazine shoots and finally unveil the songs that had been incubating in secret for six or seven years.
Her earliest musical endeavors involved classical piano and clarinet lessons but upon falling in love… more »
For Fans Of: Kim Gordon, Lydia Lunch, early Cat Power, Zola Jesus
EMA's Erika M. Anderson doesn't fuck around. The Sioux Falls, South Dakota-born songwriter, and former frontwoman for the short-lived but cultishly-adored outfit Gowns, may have flirted with expulsion from her middle school for a prank involving a dissected frog, but when it comes to her artistic life, Anderson has always maintained a zen-level focus. "If I'm going to do something," she says, "I'm going… more »
[eMusic Selects is a program designed by eMusic to give exposure to unsigned or undersigned bands. This month's selections are Strand of Oaks and Family Band]
The arresting, winter-bitten folk songs of Family Band feel like dispatches from some older, crueler place and time: a typhoid-wracked 18th-century town, perhaps, or a medieval village gripped by witch trials. In reality, it is the project of two latter-day Brooklyn expats — Kim Krans, a visual artist, and her… more »
Ronald Thomas Clontle is the author of Rock, Rot & Rule, a controversial music reference book that purports to be "the ultimate argument settler" when it comes to rating an artist's worth. In the book, the uncompromising Clontle ranks thousands of artists under the three headings listed in the book's title (rock = good, rot = bad, rule = great), based on various stringent criteria and extensive surveys. With the newly updated 2007 edition of… more »
Cat Power’s first full-length album, Dear Sir, spotlights Chan Marshall’s demanding but rewarding songwriting. Her distinctive blend of blues, country, folk and punk creates songs like the dark, noisy “Itchyhead” and “Rockets,” which mixes tension and hope, and tops it with Marshall’s earnest, expressive vocals. Though the album needs the listener’s complete attention, Dear Sir more than keeps it with nine of Marshall’s searching meditations on life. – Heather Phares
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