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04/10 Washington DC @ Sixth and I Historic
04/12 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall 04/13 Boston, MA @ Royale Read More Mika is the winner of the Brit Award's British Breakthrough Act 2008, and we've written about the British pop star a few times. ...…
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British singer-songwriter MIKA performed in front of a sold-out crowd at the beautiful Varsity Theater on Tuesday, April 2nd, He is on currently on tour promoting his third album Origin of Love out on Republic.
Against a simplistically set stage adorned with single hanging lights, MIKA performed a stripped down set with him on the piano accompanied by two talented, well-dressed, versatile musicians who sang backup, played clarinet, piano and guitar, and drums. The trio, led by MIKA, entertained the crowd during the entire 2½ hour-long show performing songs from all three albums. Whether he was belting out songs from the piano or singing, dancing and grooving from midstage, he was engaging with the audience, performing for us, entertaining us. He is a theatrical performer, glorious and happy as he moves effortlessly through his songs. It was a glorious treat to see him in action. As a testament to the popularity of his music, those in the crowd sang along with almost every song, at times making it hard to distinguish Mika’s voice above the voices of his devoted fans. At times, it was just beautiful and lovely to hear.
Love and happiness were definitely in the air that night and MIKA even facilitated a proposal (she said yes!) during the performance and changed the order of the set list in order to play “Origin of Love†from his new album post-proposal. How cute is that? The show was magical and if you haven’t listened to MIKA and you’re looking for some new, happy dancing music done really well by an amazingly talented musician. Blast this. I'm serious.
Against a simplistically set stage adorned with single hanging lights, MIKA performed a stripped down set with him on the piano accompanied by two talented, well-dressed, versatile musicians who sang backup, played clarinet, piano and guitar, and drums. The trio, led by MIKA, entertained the crowd during the entire 2½ hour-long show performing songs from all three albums. Whether he was belting out songs from the piano or singing, dancing and grooving from midstage, he was engaging with the audience, performing for us, entertaining us. He is a theatrical performer, glorious and happy as he moves effortlessly through his songs. It was a glorious treat to see him in action. As a testament to the popularity of his music, those in the crowd sang along with almost every song, at times making it hard to distinguish Mika’s voice above the voices of his devoted fans. At times, it was just beautiful and lovely to hear.
Love and happiness were definitely in the air that night and MIKA even facilitated a proposal (she said yes!) during the performance and changed the order of the set list in order to play “Origin of Love†from his new album post-proposal. How cute is that? The show was magical and if you haven’t listened to MIKA and you’re looking for some new, happy dancing music done really well by an amazingly talented musician. Blast this. I'm serious.
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MIKA at the Varsity Theater, Minneapolis (04/02/13) |
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I've said this before, and I'll say this again: bands really need to
pick better names. It's impossible to search for 'states' without
having to put 'music' or 'band' in the search box. I'm sure this is the
number one complaint whenever someone write about them and/or doing
research.
I've never heard of The Wolfmen before this promo single, Jackie, Is It My Birthday?, to be released on October 5th
on their label, Howl Records, but their two main band members
singer/bassist Chris Constantinou and guitarist Marco Pirroni have been
in the industries for ages. I know that the two of them worked for Adam
Ant, and Pirroni's been associated with Siouxsie & the Banshees and
Sinéad O'Connor.
Mika isn't really the sort of musician that I normally listen to. It's
not like because of my street cred, but generally once an artist reach
a certain status, the PR companies stops answering our calls. Which is
why it was weird that I was sent his latest single, We Are Golden by his record label, 
Nancy
Newlis is a New York singer/songwriter. Yes, we get a lot of these sort
of submissions, especially of the singer/songwriter variety. What makes
Newlis stand out is that she's from Moscow, originally studying under
composer Irina Vladimirovna. A bit of a
prodigy, she found herself studying jazz with a full scholarship in the
University of Miami.
OH MY! I think I am in love Puzzle.
A little closer to home, is Minneapolis' Total Babe. Generally whenever I see band names like this, I think "they must mean the opposite, I'll bet they're heavy metal dudes ... with beards!"
Well perception kept me away until I added this EP to my work queue.
Guess what? They're alright! In fact, having just looked over all their
cheesy photography collection, including the 
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