Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 03/7/2010

Support Women Artists Sunday: Rilo Kiley / Jenny Lewis

Rilo Kiley

Rilo Kiley

Rilo Kiley’s audiences have a strong tendency to fall in love on the spot. Perhaps it’s their beaming faces or laid-back, admirable West Coast attitudes. Or maybe it’s just their uncanny knack for designing nuanced pop songs and performing them with flair. Maybe it’s lead singers Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennet‘s adorable onstage banter and scissors-sharp wit. Whatever that little something extra is, Los Angeles, CA’s Rilo Kiley has it times ten. (Sing 365)

Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis

Born in Las Vegas in early 1977, singer/songwriter Jenny Lewis is one of indie rock’s treasured songbirds, known for her work as the primary vocalist of Rilo Kiley as well as her burgeoning solo career. A former child actress, she helped launch Rilo…

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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 02/28/2010

Support Women Artists Sunday: Sia

Sia

Sia (full name Sia Furler) hails from the famously laid-back Australian city of Adelaide. Boasting a powerful, soulful voice, she worked the Adelaide jazz circuit during the ’90s as a vocalist for the band Crisp. However, the blonde, blue-eyed antipodean’s big break came only after she followed in the footsteps of many other Aussie artists and hopped on a plane to the U.K.

While in London, Sia landed a gig as a backup singer for the very popular and extremely hip English outfit Jamiroquai. In early 2000, she released her first solo single, the alternative pop tune “Taken for Granted,” which debuted at number ten on the busy U.K. singles chart. Soon after, a string of big names in the…

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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 02/21/2010

Support Women Artists Sunday: Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson was born and raised in Bedford Hills, NY. After meeting Adam Green in a record store in upstate New York, the duo formed a band called the Moldy Peaches. They began playing the anti-folk scene in New York City, and slowly built a very loyal following. Since the Moldy Peaches went on hiatus a few years ago, though, she’s opened for artists like They Might Be Giants, Regina Spektor, Third Eye Blind, and the Butchies.

She’s leant her voice to recordings by Ben Kweller, The Mountain Goats, and others. Dawson released her first solo album in 2002. Both as a member of Moldy Peaches, and as a solo artist, Dawson has toured extensively throughout the US and Europe. She’s…

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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 02/14/2010

Support Women Artists Sunday: Jaymay

Jaymay

Jamie Seerman is an American folk singer-songwriter from New York. She performs under the name Jaymay. She grew up on Long Island and in 2003 after graduating from New College of Florida, she could not find a job in book publishing and moved back to New York to play open microphones. Her major musical influence is Bob Dylan. She has been described by BBC as “darling of the New York Anti-Folk” scene “and the New York Times as a” big name indie universe “ In 2007 Jaymay moved to London after signing with Heavenly Records distributed by the major EMI label Jaymay’s debut album Autumn Fallin ‘, released in Europe November 12, 2007 and in the United States on 11 March…

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Pop-Culture | Posted by Julie Z on 02/7/2010

Support Women Artists Sunday: Petracovich

Petracovich

Based out of San Francisco, Petracovich is Jessica Peters with an old-world version of her family name. Her great-grandfather came to the US from Russia at the turn of the century, and one of the only things Peters knows of Abraham Petracovich is that he loved to listen to the New York Opera from the radio in the living room. Out of respect for the music, he would always wear his best suit.

Many years later, his 9 year old great-granddaughter would be at the piano, practicing Chopin and Debussy, which evolved into writing unrequited-love songs in highschool, and spending her 20’s in long, blissful hours on a living-room floor, creating sounds and beats, twisting knobs, tinkering and writing.

The new…

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