A few more bands in October 2024
Charming Disaster is from Brooklyn and put together a pleasant stage show, with a narrative journey, sound effects and cabaret folk songs about witchy things, spells, and haunted forests. There is some clever wordplay in their narrative songs.
Here’s a second illustration, a bit less exaggerated. Recommended if you like the Dresden Dolls, Marian Call, the Decemberists, the tiger lilies.
Jeffrey Lewis is an artist I have had the pleasure to see many times. This year he was touring with a band called Grasping Straws, who were his backing band. They aren’t very similar to his style, they are very psych rock, reminded me a bit of Forget Cassettes. Very Cool that Mallory added some violin to his songs in addition to vocals and keyboards. He played many old favorite songs.
My Brightest Diamond has a beautiful haunting voice. She’s collaborated with many of my favorite artists. Tim Fite, the Decemberists, and she’s on Broadway doing songs with Sufjan Steven’s Broadway show! She played a great set, solo, backed up sometimes by a backing track, but included some props and costume changes. Many of the songs had samples of Sinead O’Connor speaking, I don’t think she played any covers of her, but the whole show seemed to be a tribute to her. She explained how devastated she was to hear that Sinead passed away. I would love to see her play again with a full band. I think she played her guitar with a chord tuning because she seemed to just bang it sometimes and it always sounded great. She sang an honest sad song about how you shouldn’t date an artist, shouldn’t date your manager, shouldn’t date the muscian in your band, shouldn’t date a poet, etc, there seemed to be a reason why you shouldn’t date anybody!
Isaac and the Awkward Situations 