***Featured Band
First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar
The first flourishes can be heard on this masterly debut album, built around the sweeping majesty and almost telekinetic, intricate weaving of their voices. Sounding like the dreamy and spectral nieces of the Indigo Girls or Michelle Shocked coming in from the campfire to settle at the Stockholm kitchen table, the Söderberg’s distil all of their collective influences and make them their own. Whereas Wendy and Bonnie made a play for tripped-out girl-pop many moons ago, FAK are staking out the ground for wise-beyond-their-years, country-tinged pop. The songs seep under the skin and claw at you. Surface playfulness is deceiving as the tracks take on a darker hue in places, but both elements work perfectly together to create a trance-like quality.

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*** Featured Artist
Amanda Shires
A Lubbock native, this singer from the Thrift Store Cowboys, has delivered a second disc that is pure Americana. This singer/fiddler/singer-songwriter lands somewhere between Dolly Parton and Shawn Colvin. We love her and her video Ghostbird is a work of art.

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