#isa burke

[goingtothebes]

pictures from various goats shows last week!! i don't recall which ones!!!

[krispyweiss]

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day One, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif., Oct. 4, 2024

Lucinda Williams was not at Day One of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. But Chuck Prophet, Ismay, Steve Earle and Kelly Willis - joined by Willis’ Wonder Women of Country bandmates Melissa Carper and Brennen Leigh - brought Williams’ spirit to the Banjo stage as the Songs from a Gravel Road Band.

They opened the festival guitar-pull style, trading such numbers as “I Just Wanted to See You So Bad” (Wonder Women), “2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten” (Earle) and “Crescent City” (Prophet) before ending with an all-hands-on-deck rendering of “All the Way to Jackson” a little shy of their scheduled 45 minutes of stage time.

Lindsay Lou followed on the Arrow stage sporting white shades and yellow flowers on her mic stand, into which she sang hilarious band introductions and turned them into a magnificent song of their own.

Lou and the all-woman, voices-of-goddesses Queen of Time Band - featuring Isa Burke on electric guitar and violin plus a rhythm section - used their 45 minutes to play a mix of Huffamoose-styled jazz, folk, rock and weepy country music as they offered up songs from the LP for which the band is named (“Nothing Else Matters”) and from across Lou’s discography (“Roll with Me”). And then they were off to catch a flight to the next festival.

So the Sound Biteses flew off to the Swan stage as the harmony-rich strains of the aforementioned Wonder Women wafted from the Banjo …

“… We’re going to slow it down a little bit,” the self-deprecating Milk Carton Kids said from the Swan, where they played their not-quite-ready-for-a-free-festival folk music for a large audience mixed with listeners and talkers. Those who shut their mouths and opened their ears were treated to the sonic heirs of Simon & Garfunkel - except funnier.

“It’s very hard to write a song on banjo without killing a person in the song,” Kenneth Pattengale said as he played a set heavy on selections from I Only See the Moon - and going all the back to “Michigan” - with fellow Kid Joey Ryan.

Surrounded by Golden Highway on the Banjo stage, Molly Tuttle recalled seeing her heroes as a child from the Hardly Strictly grass with her dad. And getting offered a pot brownie while at the festival with her mom.

“Your mom brought you all the way here just to offer you a pot brownie?,” banjoist Kyle Tuttle (no relation) asked incredulously and jokingly.

Playing high-energy, traditional-yet-modern bluegrass, the quintet offered a highly-apropos “White Rabbit” for the San Francisco audience; “San Francisco Blues,” meanwhile, was Tuttle’s waltzing paean to the hometown she left for Tennessee. “Down Home Dispensary” and “Dooley’s Farm” were Tuttle’s amped-up homages to ganja.

She doffed her wig for “Crooked Tree,” a song about what makes Tuttle, who has alopecia, and San Francisco, different - and so very special. Golden Highway received a rousing standing ovation at the end of their 55-minute set.

Sleater-Kinney provided the pre-show soundtrack to Cat Power Sings Dylan ’66 as their kinetic Swan-stage set flooded the field in front of Towers of Gold.

Immediately following their set, Power was barely audible as she sung “She Belongs to Me.” Power was like a whispering specter, guitar and harmonica nearly inaudible, causing Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites to give up after a few songs only to find excellent sound at the Swan, where “It’s All over Now, Baby Blue” and “Mr. Tambourine Man” were as clear as bells behind where the music was being played.

A half-hour later, the strains of the full-band “Ballad of a Thin Man” could be heard a mile away on the JFK Promenade as Power wrapped her set.

10/5/24

[fructidors]

happy goddamn mountain goats day

[tbpbsides]

mcr handshake the mountain goats added a female violinist in the last year thus upping the bar for their live shows forever and ever amen

[hotelbooking]

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[dykerory]

2025 Book Bingo!!

My dearest @batmanisagatewaydrug issued this challenge and here I am listing the books I intend to read in 2025! Under a read more because I'm not a monster

Literary Fiction: Our Share of Night (2019) by Mariana Enríquez, trans. Megan McDowell

Short Story Collection: Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy (1990), edited by Ellen Datlow

A Sequel: Don’t Fear The Reaper (2023) by Stephen Graham Jones

Childhood Favorite: When You Reach Me (2009) by Rebecca Stead

20th Century Speculative Fiction: The Time of the Ghost (1981) by Diana Wynne Jones

Fantasy: To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (2023) by Moniquill Blackgoose

Published Before 1950: Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë

Independent Publisher: Creatures of Passage (2022) by Morowa Yejidé, published by Akashic Books

Graphic Novel/Comic Book/Manga: Something is Killing the Children Book One (2021), by James Tynion IV, art by Werther Dell’Edera

Animal on the Cover: Coyote Rage (2019) by Owl Goingback

Set in a Country You Have Never Visited: Let the Right One In (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist, trans. Ebba Segerberg

Science Fiction: Finna (2020) by Nino Cipri

2025 Debut Author: Needy Little Things (2025) by Channelle Desamours

Memoir: Camgirl (2019) by Isa Mazzei

Read a Zine, Make a Zine: Leaving this one blank for now! If anyone has any zine recommendations I'd love to hear them!

Essay Collection: Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror (2023), edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith

2024 Award Winner: Linghun (2023) by Ai Jiang, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

Nonfiction: Learn Something New: Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (2012) by Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero

Social Justice & Activism: Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019) by Sabrina Strings

Romance Novel: Such Sharp Teeth (2022) By Rachel Harrison

Read and Make a Recipe: The Sopranos Family Cookbook: As Compiled by Artie Bucco (2002), by Allen Rucker, David Chase, and Michele Scicolone

Horror: SOUR CANDY (2015) by Kealan Patrick Burke

Published in the Aughts: Abandon (2009) by Blake Crouch

Historical Fiction: The Hacienda (2022) by Isabel Cañas

Bookseller or Librarian Recommendation: Leaving this one blank for now as well! If any booksellers or librarians want to recommend me a book so I don't have to talk to someone in real life. I'd love that.

[walkswithmyfather]

Isaiah 40:28-31 (NLT). [28] “Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. [29] He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. [30] Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. [31] But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.”

“Strength Comes With Waiting” By In Touch Ministries:

“Access to God's power is achieved not by moving faster but by going slower.”

“Exhaustion is a by-product of overcommitted schedules and endless responsibilities. That’s not what our Father wants for us. He offers a radically different mode of living and gives His followers renewed strength.

Those who wait on the Lord are promised His supernatural energy. In fact, Scripture says it will surpass the natural strength and endurance of the young (Isa. 40:29-30). Contrary to what we might think, access to this power is achieved not by moving faster but by going slower—taking the time to focus on God, seek His direction, and ask for His strength to accomplish what He’s calling us to do. There is no earthly explanation for what God is willing and able to achieve in and through a yielded human being. His Holy Spirit is like a powerful and refreshing gust of wind that enables us to soar like eagles (Psalm 103:5).

The next time you are at the point of exhaustion, take some time to focus on the Lord. Are you in step with Him, or have you gone ahead on your own? Align your pace with His, taking the time to rest when He wants you to, and receive the energy He freely offers to those who walk obediently in His will.”

[Photo thanks to Isaac Burke at Unsplash]

[jennyfromthebes]

hey does anyone know if there's video/audio recordings of the 12-03 show? bc according to setlist.fm they did full band plus isa burke design your own container garden and I so so desperately want to hear that. if anyone has a tape of it ill owe you one for it

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Season 2 Episode 17

Mystery Theater - The Case of the Hanging Husband - ABC - March 2, 1953

Crime Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Dwight Hauser

Produced by J. Donald Wilson

Directed by Howard Bretherton

Stars:

Tom Conway as Inspector Mark Saber

James Burke as Sgt. Tim Maloney

Patricia Wright as Gloria Williams (as Pat Wright)

James Stone as Everett Williams

Herb Vigran as Pete Barton

Anthony Eisley as Johnny Carter (as Fred Eisley)

Phil McMurray as Hardware Clerk

Bob Greer as Ice Man

Isa Ashdown as Girl

[somerandomjewelleryonthefloor]

Book 2: Drop of esteem...

(From my MC and the books series ← Here)

Winter Quarter for Solrin was rough. Dealing with the Michael/Maria situation, Isa's reign of terror, Coach Andrew, the hall monitors, the friendship troubles, Ms Hughs & Mr Burkes leaving- it was a lot for my girl.

Chapter 1- 6 my girl was a mess.

First half of the book- immediately she was burning out.

Her favourite principal was gone, she found out about Coach Burkes leaving, she found out About the Hall Monitor initiative, she found out about Michael being gone, finding out Maria and Michael were getting close too without knowing why, and having to do study & work along with it all... She was burning out badly.

Michael and Maria looking like they were getting closer had made her drop her flirty-ness with Michael, being more friendly then romantic (per say) with him, as she thought they were romantic and she didn't want to be a 'relationship-wrecker', oh hell no.

She also legit cried the night after learning her 2 favourite adults (besides Ms Maddox) were gone. On FaceSpace she put up a status saying "I'm a child of sudden orphanage" and "my second parents left me" in her bio. She loved Hughs and Burkes and looked up to them greatly.

After the carnival chapter- she was then just exhausted. She didn't put much effort in Basketball, especially after the funding ordeal, she stopped hanging out with everyone as much, she spent most of her time scrolling through comps of Vines, she also was dealing with the stress of taking care of herself as caring for her wellbeing was far too much. She'd rather hibernate in her bedroom and eat pizza and string cheese then get up and take care of her body and mind. She was depressed dude.

She dropped out of the basketball team during the chapters 9-13 as she couldn't handle it. Especially with team tensions between Cheer & Band & sports growing.

She was just... Exasperated throughout the whole book. Talk about a seasonal depression.

Despite chapter 14-15 being the most fun she finally had during this quarter, and with Michael's confession during the party, she couldn't exactly get with him yet. She was going through severe mind processing, and she couldn't take a serious relationship at that moment. She still was dating him, but only during the events of 'in between' book 2 did she fully get official with the BF/GF label.

All in all- book 2 was an emotional rollercoaster, she was depressed, she was sad, she was lonely- girl went from the most confident girl in school to the most quiet and barely emotive girlie ever.

At least she got better after the Party at Payton's.

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Aoife O’Donovan feat. Allison Russell - “Prodigal Daughter” (Kelly Clarkson)

Aoife O’Donovan’s becoming something of a television star.

The “mesmerizing” singer - Kelly Clarkson’s word, but Sound Bites seconds it - appeared on the host’s eponymous “Show” to perform “Prodigal Daughter” with Allison Russell.

It was O’Donovan’s third TV gig of ’23, following showcases on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “CBS Saturday Morning.”

This one found O’Donovan and Russell singing to each other like the long-time musical partners they are not - yet. Guitarist Isa Burke, meanwhile, added buoyancy with her own backgrounds.

Look at this child upon my knee, she/has eyes of blue/she resembles me resembling you, they sing.

If O’Donovan keeps popping up on the little screen, Sound Bites might actually start watching television again. But YouTube is working just fine for now.

Grade card: Aoife O’Donovan feat. Allison Russell - “Prodigal Daughter” (Kelly Clarkson) - A-

1/18/23

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[thebowerypresents]

Aoife O’Donovan Transports Music Hall of Williamsburg Crowd

Aoife O’Donovan – Music Hall of Williamsburg – March 3, 2022

Aoife O’Donovan’s performance at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday night had a theme, and it wasn’t an expected one from the easygoing folkie. That theme was one of transit and transportation, as became apparent midway through the set. But while a good hunk of old-time Americana centers on big locomotives barreling down a track into the great unknown, O’Donovan’s finds its muse in the everyday of public transportation, the city bus and subway, or the cheap liners that run between New York City and her hometown Boston. It’s a fitting metaphor for her superlative songwriting, on display all night, the deliberate slow-then-fast-then-slow pacing of a crosstown bus and the communal we’re-all-in-this-together attitude of a packed subway car.

The set leaned heavily on material from the recently released Age of Apathy, opening with “Galahad,” O’Donovan’s melt-in-the-air vocals fueled by harmonies and guitar soloing from Isa Burke. Each song danced between tasteful and tasty, O’Donovan’s vocals and acoustic guitar playing standing on its own, but the band adding just enough to properly decorate things for the swaying audience. Dreamy imagery and pointed observations in the lyrics came and went with the regularity of the bus, if you missed one great line, there was another one coming right behind it, O’Donovan singing, “Makeshift magazines are blowing in the wind” in “Sister Starling” and painting an entire landscape with her words in “Magic Hour.”

The explicit transit section came with “B61” and “Lucky Star,” the band doing more than just going from point A to point B. The band left the stage and O’Donovan was joined by opener Yasmin Williams, who accompanied her on guitar for a cover of “What Else Can I Do?” from the film Encanto—sounding every bit like a song of her own—which she announced would be released as a surprise single the next day. The band returned for the second cover of the night, a rollicking, I’m-a-big-fan take on Bruce Springsteen’s “Open All Night,” brimming with on-the-move imagery, the musicians bringing the boogie to match. The transitory theme stayed on until the end of the line, to the encore of “Passengers,” with O’Donovan singing about how “We are passengers traveling through the afterworld,” that we should “Just take the wheel and drive,” and, finally, “the road is long,” Williams back onstage adding lovely guitar to the mix of fiddle and bass, an easy-on/easy-off journey come to an end. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

Photo courtesy of @SashaSeesShows

[lgbtqreads]

April 2022 Deal Announcements

April 2022 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Author of THE UNBROKEN C.L. Clark’s WARMONGERS, in an epic fantasy set in a kingdom in a cycle of eternal war, two women—once lovers and warriors at arms—are set on a collision course when years after their separation, one is crowned king and the other vows to kill her, to Brit Hvide at Orbit, by Mary C. Moore at Kimberley Cameron & Associates (world). Author of UNEXPECTED GOALS…

[sinceileftyoublog]

Live Picks: 4/17

Aly Spaltro of Lady Lamb; Photo by Shervin Lainez

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Orchestral folk and raw songwriting--two new releases.

Darlingside, Old Town School of Folk Music

Last year, folk quartet Darlingside released Extralife, an intricately composed and beautiful sounding album that ultimately fell flat on an emotional level. Earlier this year, they shared some outtakes from the album as a 6-track EP called Look Up & Fly Away. For the most part, as on “Bright as the Day” and “Heart Again”, Darlingside don’t explore much new thematic territory. But they add a few new sonic elements elsewhere. Horns feature prominently on “Rodeo” and atonally on the title track; the former showcases lonely slide guitar playing, the latter tempo changes and video game synthesizers. And “Paradise Bay” takes the band’s harmonies to a whole new level, sounding almost like a church hymnal in front of humming, droning keyboards.

Folk trio Lula Wiles opens.

Lady Lamb, Lincoln Hall

“I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore,” Aly Spaltro sings on “Strange Maneuvers”, a standout track from her latest album as Lady Lamb, Even In The Tremor. The record is being billed as Spaltro’s first time really openly exploring and revealing herself through her music, and while it certainly focuses on her relationships, it first and foremost deals with her existentialism. On that same song, she recounts how, “A man holds a Bible above his head...only hoping to be noticed.” Even in a small crowd of people, who are we to claim we’re different? That’s Spaltro’s central question. “I don’t wanna die, wanna be understood,” she laments on slow-burner “Untitled Soul”. She even admits where it all comes from on “Young Discipline”: “When I was 5, my mama told me that one day we’re all gonna die...That left me with a bad taste in my mouth and a knack for existential spinning out.” 

But while the old Spaltro might have gotten angry from not only malaise but after small things like a few swings and misses in a batting cage, the new Spaltro’s looking to center herself. She doesn’t take acts of platonic or non-platonic love for granted. “Not convinced we should exist at all,” as she claims on “Deep Love”, she’s inspired to navigate new relationships while learning from old ones, recognizing the person she once was without hating her, ultimately becoming better. On album closer “Emily”, Spaltro recounts being on a trip along with two friends, cellist Emily Hope Price and photographer Shervin Lainez, too depressed to immerse herself in nature but in hindsight grateful for their friendship.

Spaltro’s growth as a person has perhaps catalyzed her growth as an artist, or vice versa; in any case, Tremor continues Spaltro’s streak of becoming better not only as a lyricist but singer and producer with every album. She delivers words with equal amounts Feist-esque soft vibrato and R&B soul. Co-production from Erin Tonkon, the warbling synthesizer playing of Benjamin Lazar Davis, and sparse percussion of Jeremy Gustin beautifully complement Spaltro’s vocal layering and mirror her story. The great title track’s chugging tempo changes provide a fitting background for Spaltro’s references to her travels, all of the places she’s been during the writing of the record. She looks back but also looks forward, continuing to create new paths for herself.

Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Renata Zeiguer and singer-songwriter Alex Schaaf (part of Lady Lamb’s band, also of Yellow Ostrich and Tallest Man on Earth) open.

[alittlemorevodka]

Vodka has always had a soft spot for close female harmonies and the wonderful three-piece, Lula Wiles, does not disappoint. Steeped in the traditions of folk music, Lula Wiles band mates, Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin, add just a hint of a more modern indie sound that keeps their music fresh and delightfully accessible while remaining true to the story-telling traditions of folk music. Love Gone Wrong (seen / heard here) is the lead-off track to the band’s sophomore long player, What Will We Do (January 2019). 

So what does a track by track analysis reveal about Lula Wiles sound? They fall in the difficult category between indie-folk, straight folk and country. These are all just flavorings, though, as the troupe is not committed, or beholden, to a particular genre or sound. They adopt a melody or style to reflect what the lyrics demand. The effect overall is a sound that is diverse enough to hold your interest throughout the twelve tracks and cohesive enough to belong together in the same collection. It’s a balancing act that these three young women handle to perfection.

You can find more information on Lula Wiles by heading up to their web site, or pick up digital and physical copies of their music music from their bandcamp.com link. Check out the full-flavor-folk of Lula Wiles now, by checking out their music!