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The Arizona-born, Nashville-based Danielle Durack’s music combines the pop sensibilities of childhood favorites like Sara Barellies with a modern wit that slots her right next to contemporaries like Boygenius and Hop Along. Beginning with debut album Bashful, Durack’s developed her sound into something mature and emotionally complex, without skimping on the hooks and humor. Her third album, Escape Artist, arrives February 16th. Following Bashful, a breakup led to an artistic breakthrough: her sophomore record, No Place garnered praise from Pitchfork, NPR, and other outlets for its honest portrayal of a long term relationship’s dissolution. No Place was released in the middle of an intense, lockdown-induced writer's block. Once she started writing again, music became her solace and a place to safely process the emotional turmoil of the past year. The title, Escape Artist, is a reflection of this.
Escape Artist, recorded with Samuel Rosson once again, is her densest, most emotional record to date. The topics are more wide-ranging; lighthearted breakup narratives now coexist alongside darker material about anxiety and codependency. The soundscapes where Durack finds herself on Escape Artist, in and of themselves, are someplace heavenly and otherworldly in which to lose herself for just a little while: “Music has been a safe place for me to go to all this time.”
Northwest Washington singer/songwriter Veronica North takes listeners on a personal journey with her music. Whether in an acoustic ballad, chill electric pop song or a nostalgic country-pop one, her lyrics display incredible self-awareness and vulnerability. Her latest EP, double bar line, delves into the liberating yet painful process of shedding expectations and finding one’s true self.
Summer Barbone
Summer currently resides in the PNW, nestled in a log cabin in the woods... literally in her Walden era. Professional gardener by day, she draws inspiration from the natural world, the rhythmic cycles and seasons that we all share, and it’s complex overlap with the human experience. Her music is rooted in her ever-evolving explorations of what it means to be alive.
Growing up a dancer in a musical household, Summer fostered a unique and multi-faceted relationship to song from the beginning. Long before she learned to play an instrument, she was studying the dynamics of music and how it intricately reflects our humanity.
“Music has always been the backbone of my self-expression- deeply woven into the ways I understand the world and myself,” Barbone says. “Music, humility, and kindness really was the ‘religion’ that raised me and my brothers.”
When a spontaneous road trip turned multi-month adventure in the summer of 2017, Summer and two college best friends found a magnetic spark in the excitement of all living together out of a 2002 Dodge Ram 1500 van named “Whitney the White Whale”. After a wild and formative journey, traveling all around the US Southwest & Pacific Coast, the three of them birthed an experimental hip-hop collective called Psilosapiens. It was with Psilosapiens that Summer first began writing, performing, and touring around Arizona.
In 2019, she parted ways with the group to pursue solo endeavors and eventually landed in Brooklyn, New York, where she recorded her debut album Mind Garden with the help of friend and producer Cameron Rood in 2020.
As the wild and untamed soul that she is, Summer didn't last long in the big city and has since found a home in the San Juan Islands off the Northern most coast of Washington, where she spends most days out gardening and studying herbalism, dancing in the living room, or cuddling her kitten, Banjo. She is currently recording her sophomore album which is expected to arrive early 2025.
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