Gentle Creatures

San Franciscoan weaver / alt-country vocalist Paula Frazer will be performing a live session for KEXP, tomorrow Thursday October 20 at 3:00 pm PST(6 pm EST). Earlier in the month, The Tuscon Weekly published a feature article about her career. I've been a casual fan of Ms. Frazer's since her days as vocalist with 4AD band, Tarnation whose atmospheric, almost other-wordly, alt-country leanings were enhanced by Ms. Frazer's sublime Patsy Cline-ish vocals. What clinched it for me was her terrific vocal contribution on Cornershop's folky duet "It’s Good to be on the Road Back Home Again". If you consider Neko Case as a vocalist whose style was influenced by Patsy Cline, I would say that Paula Frazer vocals sound almost like she's transmitting the spirit of Patsy. Truthfully, her vocals give me goosebumps. After making two albums with Tarnation, Ms. Frazer embarked on a solo career. In addition to her countless compilation contributions and singles, by my count I believe she's released three albums, including 2001's "Indoor Universe", 2003's "A Place Where I Know", and most recently 2005's "Leave The Sad Things Behind", which was released on October 4th. I'm particular disappointed that I don't think she's EVER come to Toronto either with Tarnation or as a solo artist(please correct me if I'm wrong), but hey, I also thought Freakwater would never play Toronto either(and they're coming to the El Mocambo this Saturday - see below). [photo from The Tuscon Weekly]

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Sons and Daughters will perform a live session tomorrow on Morning Becomes Eclectic at 11:15 am PST, 2:15 pm EST.

The Toronto Sun speaks with Louisville alt-country duo, Freakwater, who'll be playing a show in Toronto at El Mocambo this coming Saturday night.

chartattack has part two of its interview with Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard. Read part one here.

Zoilus lets us in on the info that The New York Times is sending a reporter to Toronto to profile the music scene a la their infamous Montreal article. Reaction over at Stillepost.

Metro News spoke with Liz Phair, who'll be performing in Toronto at the Phoenix this Saturday October 23rd.

The Toronto Sun speaks with Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene. In particular, Kevin offers the following suggestion when listening to their new album:

"If you listen to this record song by song I think you'll love it. If you put it on all at once it's very difficult to find something to get into. It's not an instant coffee."