Live Review: Soccer Mommy @ Rams Head Live — 3/23/22

Posted on 03/31/2022 by Casey Vock in Live Review and tagged lo-fi, Nashville, Rams Head Live, Soccer Mommy, Tennessee.

Sophia Regina Allison leads Soccer Mommy in a performance at Rams Head Live in Baltimore on March 23, 2022. (Photo by Casey Vock)

Growing up in one of this country’s hotbeds of music and culture with a guitar in hand would seem a natural pathway for a young artist to chart their own course and some day, maybe earlier than might be expected, advance their sounds to the right kind of listeners.

Sophia Regina Allison was just a little kid when she began playing music, having relocated to Nashville of all places after being born thousands of miles away in Switzerland. A story that almost reads as storybook but yet is so freakishly modern, Allison would go on to study guitar as a student at the Nashville School of the Arts and not long after she graduated was recording music that she’d post to Bandcamp under the artist name Soccer Mommy.

Live Review: Soccer Mommy @ 9:30 Club — 9/19/21

Posted on 09/24/2021 by Will Colbert in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, lo-fi, Nashville, Soccer Mommy, Tennessee.

If you didn’t know better, Soccer Mommy, the stage name for singer-songwriter Sophia (Sophie) Allison, may bring about visions of minivans, orange slices, and participation trophies. Suburban tedium at its best. That couldn’t be further from the truth. During a recent show at 9:30 Club, Sophie and her indie rock band performed a set that was far from pedestrian.

Best of the Year: Top 10 Photos of 2018 by Mark C.

Posted on 12/14/2018 by Mark Caicedo in Live Review and tagged Best of 2018, best of the year, Black Cat, Capital Fringe, DC9, Dead Horses, Gypsy Sally's, Loi Loi, Mikaela Davis, Near Northeast, Pearl Street Warehouse, River Whyless, Samantha Fish, Sarah Borges, Sarah Shook, Sarah Shook and The Disarmers, Soccer Mommy, Songbyrd Music House, The Birchmere, Union Stage, Wussy.

Sarah Shook fronts The Disarmers at Pearl Street Warehouse on Sept. 12, 2018. Mark Caicedo chose a picture from this show (but not this one) as one of his Top 10 of 2018. (Photo by Mark Caicedo)

Editor’s Note: This year, we asked our bloggers to name their Top 10 shows of 2018 or choose their Top 10 photos of the year. We will run them over the course of mid-December as our Best of the Year posts.

Women have long been major influences in music history, going back to the jazz greats like Nina Simone Billie Holiday, and Ella Fitzgerald; through country legends Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly; pop icons like Bette Midler, Madonna, and Cyndi Lauper; and the rock and blues greats Janis Joplin, Joan Jett, Deborah Harry and Chrissie Hynde.

Today, while female musicians like Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Pink, and Adele continue to break boundaries, local and regional bands feature women whose talent, drive and influence is just as powerful as the superstars.

My Top 10 concert photos of the year salute 2018 as the Year of Women.

Live Review: Soccer Mommy @ Black Cat — 12/1/18

Posted on 12/05/2018 by Mark Caicedo in Live Review and tagged bedroom pop, Black Cat, lo-fi, Nashville, Soccer Mommy, Sophie Allison.

Soccer Mommy performs at Black Cat on Dec. 1, 2018. (Photo by Mark Caicedo)

Soccer Mommy is on fire. With a debut full length album, Clean (Fat Possum Records), on several best of 2018 lists, a string of sold-out tour dates through next year, and loads of positive press coverage, Sophie Allison’s band showed up at the Black Cat on Saturday night ready to set the sold-out house ablaze.

Snapshots: Soccer Mommy @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 6/23/18

Posted on 06/27/2018 by isaiahhattix in Live Review and tagged bedroom pop, indie rock, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Nashville, Soccer Mommy.

Soccer Mommy performs at Merriweather Post Pavilion on June 23, 2018. (Photo by Isaiah Hattix)

Sophie Allison, better known as Soccer Mommy, appeared at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday to open Paramore. Isaiah Hattix was there to capture some pix!

Music Park: The Districts @ 9:30 Club — 8/18/17

Posted on 09/04/2017 by regardingtess in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, Fat Possum, garage, Philadelphia, Sam Evian, Soccer Mommy, The Districts.

Rob Grote fronts The Districts at 9:30 Club on Aug. 18, 2017. (Photo by Theresa C. Sanchez)

The Districts Refresh Dehydrated Fans with Tall Serving of Rock

“Hydrate yourselves: naturally, mentally, in every way you possibly can. Even, politically […]” said songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Sam Owens at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., on a recent Friday.

Who better to advise on matters of liquid nourishment than the frontman for the New York-based band Sam Evian, who shares part of its moniker with the French brand of premium (see what I did there) mineral water that boasts the tagline “Live Young.” Given the demographic of the audience, he was spot on. Continue Reading