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Ruby Dee’s Rockabilly Playground
Ruby Dee, co-lead of Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers has been cooking and playing music for as long as she can remember. On the food front she’s got a radio show and a cookbook. Now this true Renaissance woman is venturing into playing rockabilly for kids with her new album, Rockabilly Playground. We talked to [...]
Sister C: X-Factor’s Sister Act
Cirby (22), Celbi (18) and Carli Manchaca (19) grew up singing country music in the tiny Texas town of Mont Belvieu (population roughly 4,000). But they’ve only been singing together as the group, Sister C, for a few short years. With perfect harmonies that can only be attributed to DNA, the trio made it onto [...]
Paula Cole: As the Raven Flies
Paula Cole, whose birthday is Friday, was one of the breakout stars of the Lilith Fair tour back in the mid- to late ’90s. Her song, “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone” reached number eight and its follow-up, “I Don’t Want To Wait,” hit number eleven – and became the theme to the television series [...]
Sharon Aguilar: Cee Lo, Miss President and More
Influenced by such great guitarists as Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, Slash of Guns N’ Roses, and Carlos Santana, Panamanian-born, Miami-raised Sharon Aguilar, during the course of her professional musical career, had been making the rounds of playing in both original and tribute bands, but it was her audition for Cee-Lo Green [...]
Beth Hart: Learning to Love the Hard Way
Beth Hart is a true force of nature and has been compared to singers like Janis Joplin and the late, great Etta James. She recently wrapped up a European tour with most dates sold out, and was voted the #1 Best International Vocalist for 2012 by the UK’s Blues Matters magazine. Hart just finished tracking [...]
Sarah Bettens Chooses K’s Choice – Again
It’s been about a decade since the Belgian band K’s Choice last released an album in the US. In the meantime, founders Sarah Bettens and Gert Bettens have recorded on their own. But now that the Antwerp siblings have decided to release their latest album, Echo Mountain, stateside (with a companion acoustic album called Little Echoes), the band is [...]
Seattle’s Grunge Women Take Back “These Streets”
When you think about Seattle’s music scene in the early ‘90s most people naturally think of the triumvirate of grunge: Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. But what many outside Seattle don’t realize is that plenty of women were an influence at that time, too. Maxi Badd, Hammerbox and Seven Year Bitch might not have gone [...]
Emiko: 88 Keys Towards World Domination
Emiko may go by only her first name, but musically, she’s made a big name for herself. She’s a number one artist in Japan and the UK. Her background is in classical music, which she began playing at two and a half years old. By the time she was four her parents (Japanese and Jewish-American) [...]
Lisa Germano: For the Animals
Lisa Germano may have been kicked off her cheerleading team for not smiling enough, but the multi-instrumentalist and ace violin-player has had the last laugh. She has gone on to work with some of the biggest names on the musical campus: Neil Finn, John Mellencamp, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Marr, Indigo Girls, Calexico and many [...]
The Redwood Plan Changes Plans
Lesli Wood is a well-known fixture in the Seattle music scene, as the leader of her band, The Redwood Plan, and previous musical forays as Ms. Led and solo artist. In addition to playing music, Lesli is a practicing attorney, giving both right and left brain a good workout. The Redwood Plan is planning to [...]
