Annie Girl and The Flight
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Annie Girl and The Flight
Engrossing and mysterious, heightened and hypnotic" - MOJO magazine
Annie Girl was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. When she was 17, she left home for the streets of San Francisco. Less than two years later she was in the legendary Hyde Street Studio, making her first record with a band whose resumés include Nina Natasia, Victoria Williams and Jolie Holland. Self-titled record Annie Girl and the Flight, released in February 2013, was named MOJO magazine's album of the month.
Annie started playing piano when she was three, moved to saxophone at six (she wanted to be Lisa Simpson) and guitar at nine. In her early teens while playing in one of Denver's local punk bands, she began to write songs and never stopped. Splitting for San Francisco, she was taken in by The Ark, an art collective/crash pad in San Francisco's SoMa district, where she awed an audience of local musicians with her songs. The next few months were a whirlwind. She joined a band, the Fuzzy Hunnies, and was discovered playing alone in a park by an indie label, which recorded her songs. But she decided against releasing them - because, following a magical experience in the redwood forest, she found her voice and started writing new songs with a very different direction and sound. Unlike her early folk-punk, these were slow, sophisticated, mesmerizing, experimental folk, with almost trance-like music and profound, poetic lyrics about relationships and the heart. Working at lightning pace, she had a new album ready to record.
First though she toured the North West with Os Beaches, playing tambourine and singing backup for Mark Matos, the artist known for his for his cross-pollinated "anti-band" collectives featuring members of the Bay Area's rock, classical, and experimental music communities. When she returned, she put together her own band, and with Matos as her "spiritual adviser", recorded her album.
Since then, Annie's time has been divided between writing more great songs and playing live - sometimes acoustic sets (including two acclaimed solo shows at the 12 Bar in London), but mostly with her electric band, a louder, edgier, almost psychedelic version of The Flight, now featuring Josh Pollock (Foxtails Brigade; 3 Leafs) on guitar and FX, Joe Lewis, on bass (Foxtails Brigade; Os Beaches) and Nick Ott (Emily Jane White) on drums. The combination of Annie Girl's songs and the intensity of the live performance is mind-blowing. A new EP Pilot Electric will be released this year.
Kera and the Lesbians
Kera and the Lesbians, hailing from San Diego and currently residing in Los Angeles, lovingly refer to their musical style as 'bipolar folk'. Bipolar in the sense that in one song drummer Michael will pound his drums, expelling his demons with sheer force, while Kera croons and screams and serenades, enchanting all within earshot. Eamon's guitar playing is reminiscent of sleepy desert afternoons, spent on porches accompanied by the smell of leather and aging wood, while Phil's bass lines get the crowd moving and grooving. Brandon's use of brass is at once warm and rounded, but so tactfully manipulated that it inevitably raises goosebumps. The lyrics more literally embody the band's polarity, telling tales of anxiety, friendship, insanity and ill-fated love, from Kera's very unique point of view.
This is a band to see live. Kera's passion is tangible, at times bringing the crowd to tears, but most consistently keeping a dancing crowd completely enraptured, hanging onto every word her very expressive being has to sing. She brings heaps of charm to the set, with her joking between songs and her Elvis-like dance moves, it's obvious that she and the whole band live for this. Their range has allowed them to perform with a diverse list of acts including Devendra Banhart, Best Coast, and Crystal Castles.
The band has a definite DIY work ethic, having self released two EPs, and a debut coming out early 2014. They also do their own booking and artwork internally. Their newest single 'NAILBITER' is a manic blues track covering one of Kera's most aggravating habits and instilling in the listener a mounting feeling of tension that it mercifully relieves, while still giving a taste of the madness of obsession.
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Annie Girl and The Flight
Engrossing and mysterious, heightened and hypnotic" - MOJO magazine
Annie Girl was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. When she was 17, she left home for the streets of San Francisco. Less than two years later she was in the legendary Hyde Street Studio, making her first record with a band whose resumés include Nina Natasia, Victoria Williams and Jolie Holland. Self-titled record Annie Girl and the Flight, released in February 2013, was named MOJO magazine's album of the month.
Annie started playing piano when she was three, moved to saxophone at six (she wanted to be Lisa Simpson) and guitar at nine. In her early teens while playing in one of Denver's local punk bands, she began to write songs and never stopped. Splitting for San Francisco, she was taken in by The Ark, an art collective/crash pad in San Francisco's SoMa district, where she awed an audience of local musicians with her songs. The next few months were a whirlwind. She joined a band, the Fuzzy Hunnies, and was discovered playing alone in a park by an indie label, which recorded her songs. But she decided against releasing them - because, following a magical experience in the redwood forest, she found her voice and started writing new songs with a very different direction and sound. Unlike her early folk-punk, these were slow, sophisticated, mesmerizing, experimental folk, with almost trance-like music and profound, poetic lyrics about relationships and the heart. Working at lightning pace, she had a new album ready to record.
First though she toured the North West with Os Beaches, playing tambourine and singing backup for Mark Matos, the artist known for his for his cross-pollinated "anti-band" collectives featuring members of the Bay Area's rock, classical, and experimental music communities. When she returned, she put together her own band, and with Matos as her "spiritual adviser", recorded her album.
Since then, Annie's time has been divided between writing more great songs and playing live - sometimes acoustic sets (including two acclaimed solo shows at the 12 Bar in London), but mostly with her electric band, a louder, edgier, almost psychedelic version of The Flight, now featuring Josh Pollock (Foxtails Brigade; 3 Leafs) on guitar and FX, Joe Lewis, on bass (Foxtails Brigade; Os Beaches) and Nick Ott (Emily Jane White) on drums. The combination of Annie Girl's songs and the intensity of the live performance is mind-blowing. A new EP Pilot Electric will be released this year.
Kera and the Lesbians
Kera and the Lesbians, hailing from San Diego and currently residing in Los Angeles, lovingly refer to their musical style as 'bipolar folk'. Bipolar in the sense that in one song drummer Michael will pound his drums, expelling his demons with sheer force, while Kera croons and screams and serenades, enchanting all within earshot. Eamon's guitar playing is reminiscent of sleepy desert afternoons, spent on porches accompanied by the smell of leather and aging wood, while Phil's bass lines get the crowd moving and grooving. Brandon's use of brass is at once warm and rounded, but so tactfully manipulated that it inevitably raises goosebumps. The lyrics more literally embody the band's polarity, telling tales of anxiety, friendship, insanity and ill-fated love, from Kera's very unique point of view.
This is a band to see live. Kera's passion is tangible, at times bringing the crowd to tears, but most consistently keeping a dancing crowd completely enraptured, hanging onto every word her very expressive being has to sing. She brings heaps of charm to the set, with her joking between songs and her Elvis-like dance moves, it's obvious that she and the whole band live for this. Their range has allowed them to perform with a diverse list of acts including Devendra Banhart, Best Coast, and Crystal Castles.
The band has a definite DIY work ethic, having self released two EPs, and a debut coming out early 2014. They also do their own booking and artwork internally. Their newest single 'NAILBITER' is a manic blues track covering one of Kera's most aggravating habits and instilling in the listener a mounting feeling of tension that it mercifully relieves, while still giving a taste of the madness of obsession.
Annie Girl and The Flight
Links
Annie Girl and The Flight
Engrossing and mysterious, heightened and hypnotic" - MOJO magazine
Annie Girl was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. When she was 17, she left home for the streets of San Francisco. Less than two years later she was in the legendary Hyde Street Studio, making her first record with a band whose resumés include Nina Natasia, Victoria Williams and Jolie Holland. Self-titled record Annie Girl and the Flight, released in February 2013, was named MOJO magazine's album of the month.
Annie started playing piano when she was three, moved to saxophone at six (she wanted to be Lisa Simpson) and guitar at nine. In her early teens while playing in one of Denver's local punk bands, she began to write songs and never stopped. Splitting for San Francisco, she was taken in by The Ark, an art collective/crash pad in San Francisco's SoMa district, where she awed an audience of local musicians with her songs. The next few months were a whirlwind. She joined a band, the Fuzzy Hunnies, and was discovered playing alone in a park by an indie label, which recorded her songs. But she decided against releasing them - because, following a magical experience in the redwood forest, she found her voice and started writing new songs with a very different direction and sound. Unlike her early folk-punk, these were slow, sophisticated, mesmerizing, experimental folk, with almost trance-like music and profound, poetic lyrics about relationships and the heart. Working at lightning pace, she had a new album ready to record.
First though she toured the North West with Os Beaches, playing tambourine and singing backup for Mark Matos, the artist known for his for his cross-pollinated "anti-band" collectives featuring members of the Bay Area's rock, classical, and experimental music communities. When she returned, she put together her own band, and with Matos as her "spiritual adviser", recorded her album.
Since then, Annie's time has been divided between writing more great songs and playing live - sometimes acoustic sets (including two acclaimed solo shows at the 12 Bar in London), but mostly with her electric band, a louder, edgier, almost psychedelic version of The Flight, now featuring Josh Pollock (Foxtails Brigade; 3 Leafs) on guitar and FX, Joe Lewis, on bass (Foxtails Brigade; Os Beaches) and Nick Ott (Emily Jane White) on drums. The combination of Annie Girl's songs and the intensity of the live performance is mind-blowing. A new EP Pilot Electric will be released this year.
Kera and the Lesbians
Kera and the Lesbians, hailing from San Diego and currently residing in Los Angeles, lovingly refer to their musical style as 'bipolar folk'. Bipolar in the sense that in one song drummer Michael will pound his drums, expelling his demons with sheer force, while Kera croons and screams and serenades, enchanting all within earshot. Eamon's guitar playing is reminiscent of sleepy desert afternoons, spent on porches accompanied by the smell of leather and aging wood, while Phil's bass lines get the crowd moving and grooving. Brandon's use of brass is at once warm and rounded, but so tactfully manipulated that it inevitably raises goosebumps. The lyrics more literally embody the band's polarity, telling tales of anxiety, friendship, insanity and ill-fated love, from Kera's very unique point of view.
This is a band to see live. Kera's passion is tangible, at times bringing the crowd to tears, but most consistently keeping a dancing crowd completely enraptured, hanging onto every word her very expressive being has to sing. She brings heaps of charm to the set, with her joking between songs and her Elvis-like dance moves, it's obvious that she and the whole band live for this. Their range has allowed them to perform with a diverse list of acts including Devendra Banhart, Best Coast, and Crystal Castles.
The band has a definite DIY work ethic, having self released two EPs, and a debut coming out early 2014. They also do their own booking and artwork internally. Their newest single 'NAILBITER' is a manic blues track covering one of Kera's most aggravating habits and instilling in the listener a mounting feeling of tension that it mercifully relieves, while still giving a taste of the madness of obsession.
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Annie Girl and The Flight
Engrossing and mysterious, heightened and hypnotic" - MOJO magazine
Annie Girl was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. When she was 17, she left home for the streets of San Francisco. Less than two years later she was in the legendary Hyde Street Studio, making her first record with a band whose resumés include Nina Natasia, Victoria Williams and Jolie Holland. Self-titled record Annie Girl and the Flight, released in February 2013, was named MOJO magazine's album of the month.
Annie started playing piano when she was three, moved to saxophone at six (she wanted to be Lisa Simpson) and guitar at nine. In her early teens while playing in one of Denver's local punk bands, she began to write songs and never stopped. Splitting for San Francisco, she was taken in by The Ark, an art collective/crash pad in San Francisco's SoMa district, where she awed an audience of local musicians with her songs. The next few months were a whirlwind. She joined a band, the Fuzzy Hunnies, and was discovered playing alone in a park by an indie label, which recorded her songs. But she decided against releasing them - because, following a magical experience in the redwood forest, she found her voice and started writing new songs with a very different direction and sound. Unlike her early folk-punk, these were slow, sophisticated, mesmerizing, experimental folk, with almost trance-like music and profound, poetic lyrics about relationships and the heart. Working at lightning pace, she had a new album ready to record.
First though she toured the North West with Os Beaches, playing tambourine and singing backup for Mark Matos, the artist known for his for his cross-pollinated "anti-band" collectives featuring members of the Bay Area's rock, classical, and experimental music communities. When she returned, she put together her own band, and with Matos as her "spiritual adviser", recorded her album.
Since then, Annie's time has been divided between writing more great songs and playing live - sometimes acoustic sets (including two acclaimed solo shows at the 12 Bar in London), but mostly with her electric band, a louder, edgier, almost psychedelic version of The Flight, now featuring Josh Pollock (Foxtails Brigade; 3 Leafs) on guitar and FX, Joe Lewis, on bass (Foxtails Brigade; Os Beaches) and Nick Ott (Emily Jane White) on drums. The combination of Annie Girl's songs and the intensity of the live performance is mind-blowing. A new EP Pilot Electric will be released this year.
Kera and the Lesbians
Kera and the Lesbians, hailing from San Diego and currently residing in Los Angeles, lovingly refer to their musical style as 'bipolar folk'. Bipolar in the sense that in one song drummer Michael will pound his drums, expelling his demons with sheer force, while Kera croons and screams and serenades, enchanting all within earshot. Eamon's guitar playing is reminiscent of sleepy desert afternoons, spent on porches accompanied by the smell of leather and aging wood, while Phil's bass lines get the crowd moving and grooving. Brandon's use of brass is at once warm and rounded, but so tactfully manipulated that it inevitably raises goosebumps. The lyrics more literally embody the band's polarity, telling tales of anxiety, friendship, insanity and ill-fated love, from Kera's very unique point of view.
This is a band to see live. Kera's passion is tangible, at times bringing the crowd to tears, but most consistently keeping a dancing crowd completely enraptured, hanging onto every word her very expressive being has to sing. She brings heaps of charm to the set, with her joking between songs and her Elvis-like dance moves, it's obvious that she and the whole band live for this. Their range has allowed them to perform with a diverse list of acts including Devendra Banhart, Best Coast, and Crystal Castles.
The band has a definite DIY work ethic, having self released two EPs, and a debut coming out early 2014. They also do their own booking and artwork internally. Their newest single 'NAILBITER' is a manic blues track covering one of Kera's most aggravating habits and instilling in the listener a mounting feeling of tension that it mercifully relieves, while still giving a taste of the madness of obsession.
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