Last week, singer/songwriter Katie Herzig released her fifth studio album, The Waking Sleep . On this record, the Grammy Award-nominated chanteuse abandoned her signature melancholy acoustic-driven sound in favor of matured and complex dark electronica layered with contemporary folk pop. The result? A near flawless compilation of music guaranteed to secure a prominent spot on the year-end list of anyone who gives it a listen. I caught up with Katie about everything from her creative process to what it feels like to be featured on so many various film and television soundtracks to plans about [...]
Colorado born and Nashville based singer-songwriter Katie Herzig releases her new album The Waking Sleep next Tuesday, September 20th. She'll be in Philly that evening at World Cafe Live as part of the Ten Out Of Tenn tour and back Johnny Brenda's on Wednesday, November 16th. Below, download a new song from the album, "Free My Mind." Free My Mind by Katie Herzig from The Waking Sleep Download
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CM Punk & Hayley Williams: Transcending punk rock, one bodyslam at a time. • Hayley Williams : You just went through a nasty public breakup with your band's founding members, what are you going to do next? Survey says: party with remaining friends at a professional wrestling match and release a snippet of a solo song in the face of your band just being called a guise for your solo project. Nice. Also, that MTV special about the band's drama aired last week... I genuinely tried to watch it, [...]
Chicago-raised Andrew Belle first came on our radar as a 10% share of this year's Ten Out of Tenn tour, a wonderful and uniformly excellent, ever-changing collaborative mix of mostly Nashville-based singer/songwriters. Hearing his music it comes as no surprise that in high school Belle often escaped to his bedroom to revel in what he calls the "meaningful pop music" of the time: the melodic rock of Counting Crows, Verve Pipe and Third Eye Blind. Wondering "maybe I can do this someday", Belle began to write and then perform his own songs. Now after logging hundreds of shows [...]
I'm enjoying some Andrew Belle music tonight. He's got a sweet pop swing and a cool voice, coupled with passion and substance. "Andrew Belle is a Chicago and Nashville-based singer/songwriter whose new CD The Ladder was recorded with Grammy award winning mixing engineer Vance Powell (The Raconteurs). The Ladder will be self-released on February 23, 2010 and Belle will be touring nationally with Ten Out Of Tenn this winter ." The tour happens over the next few weeks - the Phoenix date is on Thanksgiving weekend at Rhythm [...]
Chicago-raised Andrew Belle first came on our radar as a 10% share of this year's Ten Out of Tenn tour, a wonderful and uniformly excellent, ever-changing collaborative mix of mostly Nashville-based singer/ songwriters . Hearing his music it comes as no surprise that in high school Belle often escaped to his bedroom to revel in what he calls the "meaningful pop music" of the time: the melodic rock of Counting Crows, Verve Pipe and Third Eye Blind. Wondering "maybe I can do this someday", Belle began to write and then perform his own songs. [...]
Chicago and Nashville-based Andrew Belle is a true working musician, playing a weekly gig at the famed Rockit club in Chi-town. Playing a mix of covers and original songs, Andrew finds his own unique voice in the songs. Here, we've got Andrew's rendition of Bright Eyes ' "First Day of My Life," with more original and re-interpreted covers to come with the upcoming release of Sundays at Rockit . Andrew Belle - "First Day of My Life" (Bright Eyes) [...]
The Next Big Nashville music festival and conference runs from Wednesday, October 7th through Saturday night, October 10th. NBN Kickoff Night will feature the Nashville Music Awards Opening Night Reception on Wed. Oct. 7 at Cannery Ballroom followed immediately the Nashville Debut of the new Ten Out of Tenn lineup presented by Brite Revolution with opening performances by Los Angeles groundbreaking vocal group SONOS, Andy Davis and others as well as performances in the Mercy Lounge. This year the Second Annual NBN Creative Conference will be held at The Martha Rivers Ingram Center for the Performing Arts at [...]
If you like music and you live near LA or Orange County, June is a good month for you. Even if you don't live around here (and I must admit, I am a bit jealous if you don't), then fret not… check out a few bands you may not have heard of before, and see if they're stopping in your area. Want free mp3's of each of these songs? Then join the newsletter , and I'll send you a link. Hooray. Laura Jansen [...]
Listen to "Charlie Chaplin" A few months ago, I went on the W orst D ate E ver. Oh I wish this was a dating blog. It's an... interesting story. But there's a light at the end of every tunnel, and that date's light was Katie Herzig . A few nights before we went out, Mr. WDE mentioned that we should go to Katie's show at Hotel Cafe. I'd never heard of her, but why not? If I didn't like him, I could lose [...]
Originally born to a musical family in California, Katie has also called Colorado as well as Nashville home. From her early beginnings on backup vocals and drums in the band "Newcomers Home", Herzig initially suffered from stage fright and confined herself to those instruments, slowly opening up to playing guitar and becoming a lead singer after her humble beginnings in the background. In 2006 her band broke up and she pursued a solo career which had started with her first album "Watch Them Fall" in 2004. Her most recent release came out in 2008, a new [...]
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