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EarBuddy talks with Lindsay Kay about her upcoming album “For the Feminine, by the Feminine”

Singer/songwriter Lindsay Kay will release her album, For the Feminine, by the Feminine, on October 5th. It’s an album of songs centered around womanhood and femininity, entirely created by women and female-identifying pros. “I tried to imagine men recording this music,” Kay says, “even men I love working with, and it made me uncomfortable. I needed people who could truly connect with the music on a personal level and would allow me to be completely vulnerable in the studio.” There’s an ethereal quality to the music that draws you into the emotion behind the lyrics. Learn more about Lindsay Kay in this edition of Fresh Wax.

You’re currently based in Los Angeles, but you grew up in Calgary. How did that shape you as an artist?

I think Calgary was the perfect city for me to grow up in because I wasn’t too spoiled with constant access to art and culture and thereby couldn’t take it for granted, but it’s also a big enough city that there were things happening and I wasn’t totally disconnected from interesting art and music. It was a nice balance – it really forced me to be curious and seek out music that I wouldn’t have otherwise been exposed to naturally unless I lived in a city like LA or New York, but there were also some cool music venues and the city had a nice underlying heartbeat of folks making music. There were a few open mic nights where I was able to perform and hone my craft a little as I got older, and that helped prepare me for a place like Berklee.

The music scene in Calgary, and general taste of Calgarians, does tend to lean a little in the direction of country, roots, and Americana style music, but we were fortunate to be a……READ MORE

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Lindsay Kay talks upcoming album and premieres new single “How Much” with PopMatters

Out on 5 October, singer-songwriter Lindsay Kay’s debut LP, For the Feminine, By the Feminine, was crafted from the bottom-up entirely by a team of women and female-identifying professionals. Across the album, Kay blends her gentle, lilting vocals with a melange of soft-spoken instruments. Kay and company’s efforts produce something strikingly vulnerable and sincere, opening up on ruminations regarding women and the expectations that a heteronormative society unfairly places on their shoulders. The songs are individually and collectively poignant, having been written following Kay’s return from a French artist residency in 2016 just as the Women’s Marches and #MeToo movement began to emerge from the fires of political disarray.

Ahead of the full release of For the Feminine, By the Feminine, Kay is premiering her newest single, “How Much”, with PopMatters. Throughout the song, Kay’s ethereal vocals nimbly navigate an atmospheric melody while she reflects on what she is looking for in relationships as she moves forward. It’s a subdued arrangement with plenty of room for Kay’s vocals to stand front-and-center as piano, classical guitar, upright bass, accordion, and a horn section subtly wrap around them…..READ MORE

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No Depression reviews Ben Fisher’s new LP “Does the Land Remember Me?”

Ben Fisher

It may not be coincidence that Seattle-based singer-songwriter Ben Fisher’s new album trying to humanize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict came out the Friday before Rosh Hashana — the Jewish New Year.

Fisher, a Jewish-American multi-instrumentalist, majored in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington and moved to the holy land after graduation. There, he wrote for The Jerusalem Post and eventually earned dual citizenship in Israel before returning to the US in the summer of 2017. The songs borne out of those experiences abroad eventually became his third independent release, Does the Land Remember Me?, produced in part thanks to a small grant from the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sport.

But with Does the Land Remember Me?, Fisher tries to present the similar struggles Israelis and Palestinians experience through a series of narrative-heavy, contemplative ballads. Clocking in a just more than an hour, the album is as hefty in length as it is in emotional weight. While a number of musical and peace-building groups try to address these issues, an entire record dedicated to it is nearly unheard of, for Americans, Israelis, or Palestinians.

Fisher excels with presenting all of those perspectives throughout Does the Land Remember Me?. “Brave New World” serves as one of his own ruminations on being emotionally and spiritually pulled between Israel and America. “1948” offers multiple stories of the Arab-Israeli war of that year. Israelis refer to it as the War of Independence, in which Israel became a state; Palestinians call it “Al-Nakba, or “the catastrophe” due to the mass displacement that took place in its aftermath. The title track could also be sung from different points of view, since both Israeli-Jewish families and Christian or Muslim Palestinian families have been forcibly removed from this same chunk of land over the past 80 years or so. In fact…..READ MORE

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Billboard talks with Ben Lee about “B is for Beer: The Musical”

The author Tom Robbins says that he “hesitated not much longer than it would take to pop open a can of Budweiser” when Ben Lee approached him with a pitch to turn Robbins’ 2009 book B Is For Beer into a musical theater piece. But Lee remembers things a bit differently as the duo prepares for the Oct. 12 release of the all-star B Is For Beer: The Musical album — whose track “Everything Is Better With Beer” ft. Jon Cryer premieres below.

“It was just a very gradual thing,” Lee tells Billboard about the project, which is coming out some eight years after he first approached Robbins with the idea. “I think Tom was cautious. While I think he likes the idea of mainstream success and recognition, he’s not someone particularly willing to alter his creative impulse for the sake of the masses. So I think he was like, ‘OK, who is this guy calling me?’ and it played out for a number of years before our friendship developed and we began to have these great phone calls about all these things we’re both interested in and (B Is For Beer) began to gain momentum.”

The B Is For Beer musical idea was actually a lightning strike moment, starting when Lee was on a family vacation in Portland and found Robbins’ book in a store. Robbins was inspired to write it after seeing a New Yorker cartoon in which a publisher dismissed a writer’s idea, saying that, “‘I don’t think a children’s book about beer would sell.’…I decided then and there to prove the fictitious publisher wrong.” Reading the book, Lee himself had “a very intuitive moment of ‘I’m gonna make a musical of this book.’ It was one of those bizarre things I think artists don’t find so bizarre, ’cause a lot of our life……READ MORE