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Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen (Photo by Dana Trippy)
Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen recently unveiled a true knockout of a song, “Like I Used To,” with a gorgeous accompanying video.
The track opens less with a chord than with a crash, an announcement to stop what you’re doing and stand at attention: Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen are singing together.
Sharon Van Etten (Photo by Ryan Pfluger)
To celebrate the holidays, Sharon Van Etten releases a pair of songs, “Silent Night” b/w “Blue Christmas.”
Sharon’s rendition of “Silent Night” is broody and minimalistic, emphasizing her muscular voice over droning synth.
Sharon Van Etten (Photo by Ryan Pfluger)
Sharon Van Etten’s debut album, because i was in love, has an upcoming anniversary later this month. To celebrate, Sharon livestreams a performance of the album in its entirety from her home in Los Angeles via Seated on Friday, May 29.
Sharon van Etten and her band performs at the 9:30 Club. (Photo by Matt Ruppert)
Anticipation hovered in the thick, rain-refracted light over 9:30 Club as the early crowd nestled close to the brick, waiting. Darkness and light bouncing back and forth, the air felt thick with hope, with expectation, as Sharon van Etten would take the stage at the club recently for the first time to play the songs off her new album Remind Me Tomorrow.
Sharon Van Etten (Photo by Ryan Pfluger)
Fresh from releasing her latest album, Sharon Van Etten appears on at 9:30 Club on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Jack Ladder performs at TEDxSydney 2015 on May 21, 2015. (Photo by Vicky Benko)
Jack Ladder’s new album is the most amazing thing I’ve heard from a newly discovered artist all year. It’s his fourth studio album overall, but his first release in the United States.
The Aussie crooner and his band, The Dreamlanders, stopped by DC9 on Thursday to perform the album for DC, but we largely didn’t get the memo. So only a small crowd turned out for some big glam, keeping Jack Ladder and The Dreamlanders a secret gem in our city for now.
But that did not deter the band from playing a wonderfully full set, full of great songwriting and powerful guitar hooks. Drawing largely from the new album Playmates, Jack Ladder and The Dreamlanders preceded to deliver the audience back to an earlier time when skillful rock musicians sang of love while wearing smart suits from the very first song.