From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V3 #45 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Saturday, April 1 2000 Volume 03 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [MLL] tour dates from pollstar ["Carsten Wohlfeld" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:28:30 +0200 From: "Carsten Wohlfeld" Subject: Re: [MLL] tour dates from pollstar On 31 Mar 00, at 4:20, jeff wrote: > > Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:51:39 -0500 > From: "Vinyl Junkie" > Subject: Re: [MLL] tour dates from Pollstar > > Here's the upcoming shows: > > > 03/30/00 Philadelphia PA Tin Angel > > 03/31/00 New Cumberland PA Pete's Cafe > > 04/01/00 Washington DC Metro Cafe > > 04/02/00 New York NY Mercury Lounge also from pollstar, for all those a little further south: 05/24/00 Athens GA Music Factory 05/25/00 Columbia SC New Brookland Tavern 05/26/00 Atlanta GA Red Light Cafe smiles, carsten - -- http://carstenwohlfeld.de "people are crazy and times are strange / i'm locked in tight, i'm outta range / i used to care but... things have changed" (bob dylan) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:12:54 -0800 (PST) From: Rachel Bussel Subject: [MLL] Time Out NY show preview There's a preview of the Mercury Lounge show in Time Out NY, with a photo that also ran in Time Out when Got No Shadow came out of Mary in a red top holding her guitar in the subway. Also, I saw an ad saying that Raging Teens are playing at Rodeo Bar on Saturday - - they usually go on around midnight are always lots of fun. :) rachel Mary Lou Lord + Rose Polenzani, Mercury Lounge, Sunday April 2 The similarity between these two songwriters begins and ends with the fact that they both use acoustic guitar. Mary Lou Lord occupies the hipper edge of latter-day folk pop, while Rose Polenzani specializes in often eerie song-poetry that can be Gothic and discordant. Headliner Lord employs a fluttering, sweet voice to distinguish her original material, as well as to reinvent songs written by artists such as Elliott Smith and Freedy Johnston. Although the Byrds-inspired tunes on her major-label debut, Got No Shadow, have their melancholy moments, they often give way to buoyant, countrified folk rock. On Lord's most recent recording, a split EP with musician Sean Na Na, she applies her impeccable taste to cover tunes; this time choosing cuts by Janis Martin, Lucinda Williams and Nick Saloman of the Bevis Frond (with whom she collaborated on Got Now Shadow). "Bang Bang" is a twangy rockabilly track that is bound to be fun live. The two slower selections, "Hard Road" and "Aim Low," showcase Lord's affinity for portraying the lucklorn and loveless. This fragile, confiding tone further enhances her intimate live performances. Polenzani's musical journeys are considerably darker than her billmate's. Gender politics, religious torment and the Salem witch trials are some of the topics the Chicago native examines in her dense writing. The songs on Anybody, her second and most recent release, are painstakingly crafted lyrical odysseys, thick with meaning. A mandolin's tinny cry or slashes of violin are the main accents to the set's dramatic tension. When Polenzani warmed up a crowd at the Beacon last yea, she was a bit overpowered by the room's vastness. The Mercury Lounge should prove a better fit for this fledgling artist's cerebral storytelling. -- Karen Iris Tucker __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V3 #45 *********************************