Category: shows
TOUR NEWS: Joanna Sternberg supporting Conor Oberst in July

We are pleased to announce that Joanna Sternberg will be the special guest for all dates on Conor Oberst’s tour of the northeast and midwest in July. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, April 19, at 10am ET.
Poster + art by Joanna Sternberg. All dates and ticket links are below:
17-Jul Portsmouth NH – Prescott Park Free Concert Series
18-Jul Providence RI – Columbus Theater
19-Jul Norwalk CT – Wall Street Theater
20-Jul Woodstock NY – Bearsville Theater
21-Jul Jersey City NJ – White Eagle Hall
23-Jul Kalamazoo MI – Bells Brewery
24-Jul Chicago IL – Thalia Hall
25-Jul Cincinatti OH – Taft Theatre
26-Jul Bloomington IL – Castle Theater
27-Jul Maquoketa IA – Codfish Hollow
28-Jul Minneapolis MN – Weesner Amphitheater, Minneapolis Zoo
Conor Oberst has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold will go to the Florence Project and their work providing direct legal and social services for detained adults and children under threat of deportation.
Track premiere: Joanna Sternberg – This Is Not Who I Want To Be, from the upcoming album Then I Try Some More
simple but affecting
— Sternberg confronts oblivion with only a piano in tow
-James Rettig for Stereogum
Many thanks to Stereogum for premiering the first single off Joanna Sternberg’s “Then I Try Some More,” out July 12. The album will be released on vinyl, cd, and as a digital album. It includes full-color artwork and lyrics sheet hand-drawn by Joanna Sternberg, along with the first pages of a comic by the same name. Listen to “This Is Not How I Want to Be,” streaming everywhere now.
Pre-save the album to your Spotify or stream This Is Not Who I Want to Be now.

TOUR NEWS: Lorkin O’Reilly & Darci Phenix

Darci Phenix and Lorkin O’Reilly will tour the northwest as Spring starts in March. Follow them on Instagram to keep up with the latest from the road.
- 3/21 Vancouver BC – Guilt and Co
- 3/22 Nanaimo BC – The Vault
- 3/23 Olympia WA – Last Word Books
- 3/24 Portland OR – The Strum
- 3/25 Sacramento CA – Luna’s
- 3/26 San Francisco CA – The Hit Gallery
- 3/29 Portland OR – House Show
NEWS: Bandcamp Daily talks to Tica Douglas
Read Tica Douglas’s Theology of Uncertainty
The songs throughout are almost heartbreaking in their tenderness and beauty:
most of them consist of little beyond Douglas’s bone-brittle guitars and voice,
fragile as porcelain, and the melodies bob slowly, like paper sailboats on a lake.
tica plays tonight
with giant peach + guilt mountain
NEW RELEASE: OUR LADY STAR OF THE SEA, HELP + PROTECT US
graced
by the newest from
Tica Douglas
Our Lady Star of the Sea Help + Protect Us (TL – 100)
own it: lp | cd | digital tl bandcamp + digital iTunes | Play
listen to it: apple music | spotify | soundcloud
see T: 5/11 Alphaville | 5/12 The Falcon | 5/13 Commissary

so blessed
many thanks to T + GP xotl
TOUR NEWS: Shana Falana Send Off Party Tonight
Bon Voyage!
Tonight Shana Falana kicks off in Kingston
with some local love to start the journey
Here Comes the Wave (TL – 97) | LP – CD – DD
Impose Magazine premiered the video for “Cloudbeats”
TOUR NEWS: The Lowest Pair – UK Spring Tour
The Lowest Pair
continue their epic jaunt
USA (MN-MI-WI-CA-OR) March + April
UK tour in April + May
US DATES
Thurs March 02: Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant, Minneapolis, MN
Sat March 04: The Banjo Hour @ Loose Moose Convention Center, Saint Peter, MN
Sun March 05: The Red Herring Lounge, Duluth, MN
Mon March 06: Papa Charlie’s, Lutsen, MN
Thurs March 10: Seven Steps Up Event & Banquet Center, Spring Lake, MI
Fri March 11: Thrashers Opera House, Green Lake, WI
Wed April 05: Humbolt Brews w/ Brothers Comatose, Arcata, CA
Thurs April 06: Brickroom, Ashland, OR
Fri April 07: Volcanic Theatre Pub w/ Brothers Comatose, Bend, OR
Sun April 09: The Old Church, Portland, OR
Sat April 15: Fifth Street Farms, Berkeley, CA
UK DATES
Thurs April 27 – Mon May 1: Shetland Folk Festival
Wed May 3: The Blue Lamp, Aberdeen
Thurs May 4: Acoustic Music Club, Kirkcaldy
Fri May 5: TradFest, Edinburgh
Sat May 6: The Performing Arts Centre, Kilbarchan
Sun May 7: Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine
Mon May 8: Café D’ Art, Formby
Tues May 9: Cwtch Coffee, Pembroke Dock
Wed May 10: The Pump House, Louth, Lincs
Thurs May 11: Jumpin Hot Club, The Studio, ‘Live’ Theatre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Fri May 12: Green Note, London
Sat May 13: Square & Compass, Worth Matravers
Sun May 14 (afternoon): Square & Compass, Worth Matravers
Mon May 15: The Bell Inn, Bath
Tues May 16: The Chapel at The Art Shop, Abergavenny
Wed May 17: The Square Tower, Old Portsmouth
Thurs May 18: The George Hotel, South Molton
Fri May 19: Thelma Hulbert Gallery Garden Party, Honiton
Sat May 20: The Bridge Inn, Topsham
Sun May 21 (afternoon): The American Museum, Bath
Sun May 21 (early evening): The Canteen, Bristol