An Interview with Anne Deming by Collected Sounds Where are you based? Minneapolis, MN Where did you grow up? Green Bay, WI and Chicago, IL Tell us a little about how you got interested in music and when you started…
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Album Review: Cinderella’s Dead by Stephanie St.John
Album Name: Cinderella’s Dead Artist: Stephanie St.John Year/Label: 2001 / Independent Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell Stephanie St.John’s debut album is a compelling listen. She has a fine voice and a versatile pop/rock sound. “Mecca” is a great song with…
Album Review: Elza by Elza
Album Name: Elza Artist: Elza Year/Label: 2001 / Independent [Buy at Amazon] Review by Amy Lotsberg Producer of Collected Sounds This is Elza’s first release. Her training is in opera and she’s won awards in that field, but has now…
Album Review: Half Wild by Julia Macklin
Album Name: Half Wild Artist: Julia Macklin Year/Label: 2001 / Independent Review by Amy Lotsberg Producer of Collected Sounds This is Julia Macklin’s second release, the first being an EP she released in 1998 simply called Julia Macklin. She has…
Album Review: The Long Picnic by Stephanie Rearick
Album Name: The Long Picnic Artist: Stephanie Rearick Year/Label: 2001 / Uvulittle Records Review by Amy Lotsberg Producer of Collected Sounds “The Long Picnic” is one part classical piano, part odd pop. The recording begins with a calming classical-type piece…
Album Review: A Brooklyn Night Lisa Brigantino
Album Name: A Brooklyn Night Artist: Lisa Brigantino Year/Label: 2001 / Hidden Pond Productions Review by Amy Lotsberg Producer of Collected Sounds Lisa Brigantino has a good solid bluesy voice and plays a mean guitar. Some of her songs are…
Album Review: Girl Versions by Emm Gryner
Album Name: Girl Versions Artist: Emm Gryner Year/Label: 2001 / Dead Daisy Records [Buy at Amazon] Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell Canadian singer Emm Gryner had the same idea with Girl Versions as Tori Amos had with Strange Little Girls;…
Album Review: Freedom is Sexy by Rachel Mayfield
Album Name: Freedom is Sexy Artist: Rachel Mayfield Year/Label: 2002 / Pure Savage Records This CD is not available for purchase anymore. Review by Anna Maria Stjärnell The short-lived british band Delicious Monster had a dynamic singer in Rachel Mayfield…
Interview: Vienna Teng
An Interview With Vienna Teng by Collected Sounds Photo by Adam Tow Where are you based?/Where did you grow up? I’ve lived in the San Francisco Bay Area all my life. Grew up in Silicon Valley, went to Stanford University,…
Album Review: Tenderland by Leslie Nuchow
Album Name: Tenderland Artist: Leslie Nuchow Year/Label: 2001 / Slam Music Review by Amy Lotsberg Producer of Collected Sounds Singer and activist Leslie Nuchow hardly avoids difficult subjects, she approaches them head on on her album. Issues such as violence…