Author: CharlesJones

There’s something about Agnes Obel. She is like a secret that rests just on the press of your lips or the tip of your fingers, mimicking her soft vocals and heavy piano serenades. She leaves a feeling that is at once incommunicable but felt so heavily right there in your bones like a buried fossil that is...

Straight back through the bar at Chicago’s Beat Kitchen sits a poorly lit room, with hipsters slumped against the walls and some daring enough to sit on the sticky floor. In their defense, there is not a single stool in the back room, not even by the bar. Ironically pink Christmas lights are strung along...

Arrica Rose’s music career started as music careers start – when she was a kid, knee-high to a grasshopper, sitting in her room with a Fisher Price record player and a Frank Sinatra disk on the turntable, crooning “New York, New York.” She did, then, what most singers do before they realized they were singers –...

“Are those baby bottles?” was the first thought that popped to mind and out of mouths when the stage lights went on at Lily Allen’s performance at the Hollywood Palladium, the last one of her U.S. Sheezus headlining tour. There were, in fact, a large number of huge, lit-up baby bottles decorating Allen’s stage, which presumably were a...

Instead of telling her exes (or the bitchy broads who stole them from her) how she really feels, acclaimed singer-songwriter Meiko likes to pen passive-aggressive letters to those who have wronged her—without ever licking the stamp to make it complete. Consider the sentiment signed, sealed and delivered in her latest work, Dear You, released October 14. The 11-track...

It’s interesting that death would be such a prevalent theme in a semi-autobiographical work from a woman that most would describe as full of vibrant energy and beautiful life. However, the central themes of Carla Harvey’s “Death and Other Dances” seamlessly transition into her story of life, from an initial fascination with death as a...

Lili Haydn is a legend—a pint-sized violin virtuoso who has been a mainstay in a number of music scenes for years. She has released four of her own albums—the most recent being Lililand—and has scored films alongside Hans Zimmer and his Remote Control team. She has shredded on her violin on the same stage as Jimmy Page and Robert Plant....