Category: shows

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.

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

Read Tica Douglas’s Theology of Uncertainty

by J. Edward Keyes

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.

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tica plays tonight

with giant peach + guilt mountain

at Lagusta’s Luscious Commissary

graced

by the newest from
Tica Douglas

Our Lady Star of the Sea Help + Protect Us (TL – 100)

stream the album: clrvynt

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

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”

Enjoy it here

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

ATTN:

BOISE, MISSOULA, SPOKANE, SEATTLE, OLYMPIA, PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, SANTA BARBARA,

AND LOS ANGELES

TEAM LOVERS

CHOIR BOY IS COMING