Monthly Archives: August 2018

Country singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews talks her new album, May Your Kindness Remain

Courtney Marie Andrews began her professional music career young. While many of her peers were piling equipment into vans and fighting to survive, she was on tour buses with hometown heroes Jimmy Eat World as a background vocalist. She then toured Europe as a background vocalist for Belgian pop-star Milo.

Still just 27 years old, she has now penned six full-length solo albums, including this year’s May Your Kindness Remain, named by Rolling Stone Country in June as one of the “25 Best Country and Americana records of the year so far.” Continue reading

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Manchester Orchestra return to Birmingham

Manchester Orchestra has a long history with Birmingham. The band formed in Atlanta more than a decade ago, a time when regional touring was imperative to building a fanbase. As fate would have it, the woman that would become lead singer Andy Hull’s wife was then attending Samford University. Continue reading

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Japanese Breakfast comes to Saturn

Japanese Breakfast is Michelle Zauner, an Oregon native that has built her music career in Philadelphia—the new east coast capital of indie music. She makes pop music, but lyrically it’s pretty dark, which makes it something different entirely. Her second record, Soft Sounds from Another Planet, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim. Before returning to Birmingham to headline—her last visit being an opening set for Mitski at Syndicate Lounge—she chats about the City of Brotherly Love, her evolution from her previous band Little Big League and how she maintains balance in her dark brand of indie pop.

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“Telling It As I’m Experiencing with It”: A Conversation with Singer-Songwriter Erin Rae

Erin Rae is one of the most recent additions to the roster at Florence, Alabama-based Single Lock Records. Her first album with the label, Putting on Airs, was released just two months ago, but she’s already earned critical acclaim. NPR, for instance, declared the record would “bewitch and enlighten the nation.” Continue reading

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