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Grace Potter carries a torch for Karen Elson

June 7th, 2010 — Americana, Goth/Synth, Rock

Grace Potter and Karen Elson

Grace Potter and Karen Elson

Grace Potter’s recommendation: “I just started listening to Karen Elson. I read about her while we were at SXSW and was drawn in by that fact that she had so many pre-conceived notions about her because she’s a high-end fashion model and she’s married to Jack White. That’s a lot to live up to. No one ever wants to believe that a model has any talent beyond starving themselves and looking forlorn, but I found her take on gothic americana deeply moving.”

New to Karen Elson? Grace suggests you start here: “Her new record The Ghost Who Walks is bone chilling from beginning to end and had me listening to it over and over again.”

Grace PotterAbout the guest author, Grace Potter: Even though Grace Potter just released her third album, she still managed to sneak on to Rolling Stone’s Best Bands of 2010 Liist. The Daily Times accurately describes her as “…Lucinda Williams fronting the Black Crowes, or Janis Joplin if she’d cut a few albums with The Band.” Their excellent new album, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals was produced by heavyweight Mark Batson who in the past has spun the dials for biggies like Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jay-Z and The Dave Matthews Band. Potter and her crew also have an explosive live show, called by Jambase.com “…without a doubt one of the very best American touring acts today.” Check her site for tour dates and spy her take on a Jefferson Airplane classic here:


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Shirley Manson carries a torch for Siouxsie Sioux

December 14th, 2009 — '90s Rock, Goth/Synth, Punk

Shirley Manson and Siouxsie Sioux

Shirley Manson and Siouxsie Sioux

The Quote from Shirley Manson, lead singer for Garbage: “‘I learned to sing listening to her records — she made me connect with rock music,” says Manson, who discovered the Banshees in 1980 at age 14. ”Women in the charts up to that point had been presenting a glossy, sanitized version of femininity — wearing little rah-rah skirts with their bellies hanging out. But Siouxsie, her face painted with that tribal makeup, she came along looking like a warrior.”

The Source: Interview by Missy Schwartz, EW.COM – December, 2004

More on: Shirley Manson | Siouxsie Sioux

New to Siouxsie Sioux? Start Here: Siouxsie and the Banshees career drifts beautifully from Sex Pistolesque wailing to goth and synth arrangements. The wailing is missing for the most part, but the goth and synth is wonderfully captured here on The Best of Siouxsie & Banshees. You get the collection leading cover of the Beatles’ Dear Prudence and the catchy/disturbing/still fresh sounding Peek-A-Boo and a whole lot more.

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