Fay Wolf describes her live performances as “sadsongfunnyjokemusictimes.” Now, don’t run and grab your Webster Dictionary just yet. The Connecticut born-Los Angeles based singer/songwriter and pianist simply makes songs that are alluring yet gloomy; funny yet sappy--similar to Ani Difranco, Joni Mitchell and Tori Amos. Her second album, “Spiders,” produced by Billy Mohler (Macy Gray, Lenka, War Tapes) and Joshua Ostrander (Eastern Conference Champions, Kav, Voxhaul Broadcast), which will be released independently on November 8th, is an 11-track album that displays her unabashed honesty, dark humor and wit that her fans have come to know and love.
Wolf is not only a crooner, composer and ivory-tickler, she is a classically-trained actress who has made appearances on primetime television shows such as Law & Order, Numb3rs, Bones, Ghost Whisperer and NCIS: Los Angeles. Her songs have even been featured on Grey's Anatomy, One Tree Hill, Covert Affairs, and Pretty Little Liars.
Get a preview of Spiders at Barre on Monday, September 26th. - Nicole Dawley
Funeral Party blends punk aesthetics infused with a nuevo Indie vibe that blows the doors off The Strokes, Killers, and Arcade Fire. This LA group breeds a new crop of the next generations distain for the mundane. Released on March 29th, The Golden Age of Knowhere expresses the angst of youth and gives off the same vibrant energy you experience attending their live performances. The defiance, competitive nature, and taunting in "New York City moves to the Sound of LA" says it all. Every track on this album has a strength to it that when tied together play as a cohesively tight album. The stand out tracks are "Finale", "NYC Moves 2 the sound of LA", and "Youth & Poverty", but even that breakdown isn't fair given the great effort from this band on the verge. Funeral Party opens for Panic! at the Disco at The Wiltern, June 21st.
