My Friend Is In The Band

If you told me five years ago that my friend, stunningly featured in the picture above, was going to be the guitarist and vocalist in a band, I would have told you you were nuts. Yet, here I am, about to post about her band’s first gig at the Knitting Factory.

As someone who is, at the moment, really into beats (as my current obsession with this song demonstrates), I loved my friend’s stripped down, minimalist approach to music. At it is core, music is about the beat and now matter how much pretty window dressing you put on a song, it isn’t anything without a good beat. As I was listening to my friend’s set, I kept coming back to that thought, that little insight into music that we’ve seem to have forgotten over the past few decades amid overproduced, overblown records.

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