Nicest write-up I've ever gotten
This was the best thing ever.
Reading this before my show tonight is wonderful. My throat's been sore and the weather is making me feel a bit...meh.
But...I feel glowy now, thanks to LINEOUT: THE STRANGER BLOG. This is a write about about my show at Nectar tonight...
TRUCKASAURAS, SQUARE WAIL, LEENI, FIGHTER X (NECTAR) If Truckasauras are Seattle’s car crunching, dancefloor mashing 8-bit monsters, Leeni is our daisy plucking, bedroom swooning 8-bit sweetheart. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter is good looking, multi-talented (as professional celeb impersonator, she does a mean Britney and a campy Bush-in-drag), and has the kind of silky, sleepy voice that can coax true romance out of a Gameboy. She released her second record, 8 Bit Heart, in August; if Princess Peach set her wearied longings to a Super Mario soundtrack, they would sound something like this. Leeni’s compositions are intimate and delicate, her lyrics pop-culture savvy and self-aware. The whole package is rendered playfully surreal by its artificial sound, the pixelized pulses only a Nintendo can produce and only a keen artist can turn into music.
The really cool thing about this night is its breadth of styles, all of which fall under the “8-bit” banner: Truckasauras make redneck techno, and Leeni is a whip-smart singer-songwriter. Making music with a Gameboy might still be a novelty, but as more musicians choose to embrace its geek chic, the more they legitimize the genre and the instrument.
You can check out Leeni’s music on her Space Invaders-inspired website.
Yay!!
Here's the link as well.
I also feel glowy cause I wrote a pretty, new song that I'm gonna try my best to sing tonight! Very Zelda inspired.
In other news news, Evening Magazine was a no-show the other night. I spoke to the reporter and he had no way of getting a hold of me that day to tell me that he couldn't get someone to shoot it. So, they *may* shoot footage tonight, but they are coming to my rehearsal space next friday to film for realsies.
Yay. And Yay.
HOpe to see some of you tonight!!
Reading this before my show tonight is wonderful. My throat's been sore and the weather is making me feel a bit...meh.
But...I feel glowy now, thanks to LINEOUT: THE STRANGER BLOG. This is a write about about my show at Nectar tonight...
TRUCKASAURAS, SQUARE WAIL, LEENI, FIGHTER X (NECTAR) If Truckasauras are Seattle’s car crunching, dancefloor mashing 8-bit monsters, Leeni is our daisy plucking, bedroom swooning 8-bit sweetheart. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter is good looking, multi-talented (as professional celeb impersonator, she does a mean Britney and a campy Bush-in-drag), and has the kind of silky, sleepy voice that can coax true romance out of a Gameboy. She released her second record, 8 Bit Heart, in August; if Princess Peach set her wearied longings to a Super Mario soundtrack, they would sound something like this. Leeni’s compositions are intimate and delicate, her lyrics pop-culture savvy and self-aware. The whole package is rendered playfully surreal by its artificial sound, the pixelized pulses only a Nintendo can produce and only a keen artist can turn into music.
The really cool thing about this night is its breadth of styles, all of which fall under the “8-bit” banner: Truckasauras make redneck techno, and Leeni is a whip-smart singer-songwriter. Making music with a Gameboy might still be a novelty, but as more musicians choose to embrace its geek chic, the more they legitimize the genre and the instrument.
You can check out Leeni’s music on her Space Invaders-inspired website.
Yay!!
Here's the link as well.
I also feel glowy cause I wrote a pretty, new song that I'm gonna try my best to sing tonight! Very Zelda inspired.
In other news news, Evening Magazine was a no-show the other night. I spoke to the reporter and he had no way of getting a hold of me that day to tell me that he couldn't get someone to shoot it. So, they *may* shoot footage tonight, but they are coming to my rehearsal space next friday to film for realsies.
Yay. And Yay.
HOpe to see some of you tonight!!