From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V7 #47 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Saturday, May 29 2004 Volume 07 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Providence Phoenix: Roadtripping [Paul Schreiber ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 23:23:19 -0700 From: Paul Schreiber Subject: Providence Phoenix: Roadtripping http://www.providencephoenix.com/music/roadtripping/documents/ 03802591.asp Issue Date: May 7 - 13, 2004 BY CARLY CARIOLI A former backing singer for Rob Zombie and David Bowie, Emm Gryner hit upon the perfect ratio of coffeehouse folk to pop polish on last years Asianblue (on her own Dead Daisy imprint). Following up her covers album Girl Versions (which included a wrenching version of Fugazis "Waiting Room"), Gryners singer-songwriterly piano ballads balance Top 40 sheen with indie heart. Michelle Branch, take notice. Gryner is at Club Passim in Cambridge tonight (May 6) and at AS220 (401-831-9327) in Providence on Saturday. We preferred Gryners Girl Versions to Tori Amoss Strange Little Girls, but we dug the way each took its shot at restocking the Great American Songbook. Yet another pianist is on her way down the pike with similar intentions. Charlotte Martin has opera-trained pipes that make her sound like a brassier Kate Bush. Her RCA debut, On Your Shore, is due this summer, and though shes yet to shed her starched Broadway affectations, that hasnt stopped her from including dorm-room faves like Soundgardens "Black Hole Sun," U2s "I Still Havent Found What Im Looking For," Peter Gabriels "In Your Eyes," and the Cures "Just like Heaven," alongside Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein IIs "Ol Man River" in her repertoire. Martins own tunes are somewhat less remarkable, though her first-person stalker tune "Im Normal, Please Date Me" makes a nice iPod segue into the Dresden Dolls "Missed Me." This good but not great Charlotte plays the Paradise (617-423-NEXT) in Boston on Wednesday, where shes opening for the Norwegian indie-pop wunderkind Sondre Lerche. The 21-year-old singer-songwriter is touring behind his superb Two Way Monologue (Astralwerks), an album of endearingly romantic tunes cut from the cloth of Bacharach-like sophistication and Beach Boysish whimsy. ...snip... [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V7 #47 **********************************