Haley Heynderickx @ 9:30 club 11/16
By: Olivia Nolan
For the first time in six years, folk singer Hayley Heynderickx has announced a new album. “Seed of a Seed” is slated for release on November 1, two weeks ahead of her performance at 9:30 Club.
Hayley’s 2018 album I Need to Start a Garden is a soul-bearing gem, and she was hailed in its wake by NPR Music as “an utterly distinct and wonderfully nervy, idiosyncratic presence.” Distinct she certainly is, citing influences as disparate as Townes Van Zandt, her Catholic Filipino upbringing, jazz radio, and a childhood bluegrass teacher. Her music is equally expansive, rooted in folk tradition but straying often into rock with electric guitar and explosive shouted vocals, although most of the time her stripped down fingerpicking and intimate storytelling (á la Van Zandt) is enough to command attention.
Hayley made her return last summer, dropping the new album’s title track and two other singles. “Seed of a Seed” dips into a melancholy very familiar to the artist, but doesn’t succumb to it—the song is mellow and playful, an ode to a simple life in a complicated world.
Hayley’s show, opened by jazz trombonist Kalie Vandever, is on 11/16 at 9:30 Club. Check it out here. Doors at 6!
Slowdive @ The Anthem 11/17
By: Julian Hester
UK shoegaze pioneers Slowdive will return to Washington DC, this time performing at The Anthem. Following their tour last year in support of their fifth album Everything Is Alive, the band announced an additional set of dates for this year. Forming in Reading in 1989, the band would release several EPs, and eventually released their debut album. They found critical and underground success with their second album, Souvlaki. They would go on a hiatus following the release of their third album, but reunited in 2014 to release albums and tour. Their latest string of shows is likely a way to celebrate their newfound success with Gen Z, who have been introduced to shoegaze through social media. Don’t miss Slowdive and opener Quannnic at The Anthem on November 17th!
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Odie Leigh @ The Atlantis 11/17
By: Arabella Cyre
Tik Tok musician-turned indie artist Odie Leigh will be at The Atlantis on November 17th for her Carrier Pigeon tour, showcasing her debut album. Odie grew up in suburban South Louisiana, where she sang in the church choir and learned to play guitar. Odie didn’t set out to be a musician, but after going viral on Tik Tok during the 2020 pandemic she began releasing more indie folk acoustic music, and eventually signed with record label Mom + Pop in 2023. Her Americana songs are emotional and authentic, speaking to familiar hometown issues like situationships, texting your crush first, and being the problem. Listening to her songs “Already (On My Mind)” and “Either Way” feels like opening your notes app after being left on delivered for 3 hours in the best way. She truly is just a girl, although “just a girl” that has already toured Europe and most of North America.
Doors open at 6:30pm, buy tickets here!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor @ 9:30 Club 11/18
By: Sofija Juodaitis
Revolutionary Montreal-based post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor is stopping by DC’s 9:30 Club on November 18th, as part of their North American tour for their earthshaking album, NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD. Founded in 1994 by eclectic instrumentalists Efrim Menuck, Mike Moya, and Mauro Pezzente, Godspeed first made waves with their 1997 project F♯ A♯ ∞. They’ve since cemented themselves as a cornerstone of the post-rock scene. Like the band’s previous work, NO TITLE is an apocalyptic, merciless rollercoaster of emotion, combining pounding ambient instrumental lows and flying crescendo-like highs. Yet, as the title referencing Gaza Health Ministry statistics in the Gaza Genocide suggests, Godspeed’s work comes from somewhere more real. The weight of tens of thousands dead weighs heavily on each spiraling note. The album’s soaring final track, “GREY RUBBLE – GREEN SHOOTS,” calls upon visions of a world less broken than the one we see today.
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