28 Thursday May 2015
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Photo of Nathan Singleton, Frontman for The Sideshow Tragedy (courtesy of Bobby Hitt/Pit Freaks Magazine)
Nathan Singleton, frontman for The Sideshow Tragedy, spoke with Jay Smith at Pollstar about his band The Sideshow Tragedy and their new album Capital produced by Kenny Siegal at Old Soul Studios. Please read the excellent in-depth interview here.
21 Thursday May 2015
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The Sideshow Tragedy
Photo: Eric Pawlak“Powerful…Best album of the year? One of the top handful, no question.” Delarue, New York Music Daily raves about The Sideshow Tragedy’s new album ‘Capital’ – read full review below…
The last time this blog caught up with the Sideshow Tragedy, it was a couple of years ago late on a Friday night in the red neon backroom at Zirzamin, and the Austin noir blues band was killing it. Really killing it. Guitarist Nathan Singleton was airing out his bottomless bag of jagged minor-key licks, drummer Jeremy Harrell had a murderous stomp going and there were some special guests, if memory serves right – it had been a crazy night up to that point. Fast forward to 2015: Zirzamin is sadly gone, but the Austin band has a new album, Capital, streaming at Continental Record Services‘ site, and a similar small-room, Friday night show, in this case at the Rockwood on May 22 at 11 PM. This usually sedate space is in for a serious jolt of adrenaline, tempered slightly by the fact that the new album is…
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15 Friday May 2015
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(fantastisch) Suzanne Jarvie @ Parelsessies Utrecht 11-5-2015.
Suzanne Jarvie in the Netherlands
Photo: Joost Festen
09 Saturday May 2015
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“Spiral Road, the impressive debut album from Canadian Suzanne Jarvie has been universally lauded since its release in April. Compared by many to Emmylou Harris Jarvie delivers sweet country rock, lilting ballads and lowering country funk over the course of the disc’s 10 songs. The heady mix of Hammond organ, pedal steel and crunchy guitars on Never Gonna Stop is just short of monumental while Tears Of Love with its keening melancholy buoyed up by a joyful country arrangement would be right at home on Emmylou’s Pieces Of The Sky album, indeed it sounds as if it were written by a metaphysical Dolly Parton.” Paul Kerr, Blabber ‘n’ Smoke
Spiral Road, the impressive debut album from Canadian Suzanne Jarvie has been universally lauded since its release in April. Compared by many to Emmylou Harris Jarvie delivers sweet country rock, lilting ballads and lowering country funk over the course of the disc’s 10 songs. The heady mix of Hammond organ, pedal steel and crunchy guitars on Never Gonna Stop is just short of monumental while Tears Of Love with its keening melancholy buoyed up by a joyful country arrangement would be right at home on Emmylou’s Pieces Of The Sky album, indeed it sounds as if it were written by a metaphysical Dolly Parton.
Jarvie, whose day job is as a criminal defence attorney, began to write these songs in the aftermath of a family tragedy, her son in a coma after a head injury. His road to recovery unlocked a creativity in Jarvie. While she had always dabbled…
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