Kimya Dawson News

What seems like just a few months ago, Kimya Dawson was playing a sold-out house show in Arcata, and now she's scheduled to play the Van Duzer Theatre, this Saturday night.

Anti-folk singer Kimya Dawson seems an unlikely superstar. I'm sure she'd blanch at the suggestion that she's a star of any sort, but the truth is her sweet little lo-fi love songs set the tone for the movie ...

The first full-length from Los Angeles folk-rock quartet The Whispertown 2000 also represents the first band signed to Acony Records, the longstanding label of Nashvillians Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.

The songs on movie soundtracks usually aren't meant to break new ground. Soundtracks generally serve to set a mood or evoke an emotion, and so they often involve obvious choices: Pete Townshend 's "Let My Love ...

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Alphabutt Kimya Dawson drops her freak-folk flag to fly her, um, fart flag with a for-kids-only run through an alphabet where every letter is somehow related to cutting it.

When The Terrordactyls appear on Vashon this Sunday afternoon, it will be both a homecoming and a send-off for band members Michael Cadiz and Tyrel Stendahl.

Who'd have imagined--back when she and fellow Moldy Peach Adam Green were waxing anti-folk rhapsodic about downloading porn with Davo, about Duran Duran boyfriends, about what to stick their dicks in--that ...

Who'd have imagined--back when she and fellow Moldy Peach Adam Green were waxing anti-folk rhapsodic about downloading porn with Davo, about Duran Duran boyfriends, about what to stick their dicks in--that ...

She was a kindly woman-child foil for barely legal hipster smart ass Green--who she baby-sat, in his younger years--but not much else.

Noah and the Whale's 'Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down' Kimya Dawson Kimya Dawson and Friends' 'Alphabutt' NOAH AND THE WHALE "Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down" 4 stars 1 star Innocence sells these days.

Two of the UK's brightest young troubadours Johnny Flynn and Mercury Prize-nominated Laura Marling have teamed up for a live, acoustic duet to prepare for their inaugural co-headlining American trek.

The unspoken joke about this album of children's music from the Juno -soundtrack star is that Kimya Dawson's purposely primitive anti-folk songs have always sounded like the stuff of nursery-school rhyme time.

After she scored nine pop hits between 1999 and 2006, top 40 radio gave Jessica Simpson the heave-ho. Now the singer has shifted formats to country, which she insists is an organic fit, given her Texas roots -- ...

Genre : Electronic/synth-rock. My take: This is the sophomore album from British trio Fujiya and Miyagi, and they have come into their own as one of the best electronic/live instrumentation bands.

In 1974 Sandy Allen, at 7ft 7in the world's tallest woman, wrote to The Guinness Book of Records, hoping to meet people of similar height.

Kimya Dawson Alphabutt *8.2* Goes well with: Ani DiFranco, Moldy Peaches, Feist's Sesame Street video "A is for apple, B is for butt, C is for cat-butt, D is for dodo, E is for elephant doodoo." With lyrics ...

Philadelphia Folk Festival Fri., Aug. 15-Sun., Aug. 17, various times. $18.50-$177. Old Pool Farm, 1323 Salford Station Rd., Schwenksville.

The Philadelphia Folk Festival always delivers a lot of bang for the entertainment buck.

The Philadelphia Folk Festival, which kicks off today and runs through Sunday, turns 47 but the event is younger than it's ever been.