"they're better live"
IMO "they're better live" is one of the highest compliments a musical artist can receive. Below are three bands that are on my must-see-live list:
Icy Blue Coral by RRUCCULLA
Fact: drummers are cool. RRUCCULLA, though, is not your average drummer. She's foremost a musical experimentalist. Preview from a national competition she won.
La bruja by Lizbeth Roman
Music is storytelling, and Lizbeth is a storyteller. Known in Puerto Rico for her theater work, she brings this to her jazzy-Caribbean-folky creations. She makes me wish I understood Spanish.
Ants by Tank and the Bangas
They won the Tiny Desk Contest in 2017 so you know they are good performers. I find the music of Tank and The Banagas so. . . interesting, if not because of the lyrics, then the song structure, or the instruments, and the voice too. There's so much to dissect and so much to groove along to.
Happy listening,
Angela
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