Fuck California: The EMA Thread

I will be checking in on this thread, cause I DEFINITELY am open to being sold on them, as of now they're the absolute bottom of my list.

Milkman was the track that got me into EAP. California grew on me in a really big way.

One more song worth listening to is Red Star. This one has kind of a bluesy/alt-country mixed with dream pop feel.

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I didn't even notice that. I meant EMA. This is what I get for starting threads when I've been drinking.

Sticking with my posting good EMA songs, here is The Grey Ship. Like a lot of her songs, it starts out slow, but really builds.

If Dan Deacon was more into slower folktronica

yeah, my show's going to be pretty rad. you don't want to miss it.

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I really like Milkman despite the unbelievably incoherent video, I listened to the album on line-up-drop-day. Hopefully Thursday!

First heard her cover of Endless Nameless on SPIN's Newermind. After hearing that someone chose to cover it, I knew I had to check that person out. I think I may see her in DC, because it doesn't seem like one of those shows I have to see the Roo version of.

Saw her last night in Minneapolis. I'm trying to catch a good amount of shows in the next few months to eliminate conflicts during festival season, but damn, she was so quacking good I am going to have to see her again at Roo. Show was surprisingly intense and I just had a good feeling through all of it. She played for about an hour and ten minutes in case anyone was wondering if she can hold a whole slot.

She's a really good performer, sounds awesome live, and does all the little things to make the audience feel engaged. She wasn't a corpse up on stage, had a bit of banter, and passed around a bottle of Jack Daniels for the audience during the encore. These teen girls by me rushed up to get a hold of it, but then were too chicken to take a sip. Oh and her drunk mom was there and EMA basically told her not to quack any young guys in the audience.

Fear, I feel bad for you, dude. I walked to the venue from my apartment. Plus Julianna Barwick did a free performance earlier in the night at an art museum beneath this:
www.flickr.com/photos/walkerart/6649130199/

It was awesome.

Go see EMA on her tour if you possibly can. She's awesome, has a cool violinist, and is street kid sexy. Her guitarist is cute too. Go to her show!

If you like EMA you should check out Grails. She was/is in that band. It's more along the lines of creating atmosphere than actual songs you can rock out to though.

I'll be there with ya.

Left of the soundboard.

I've been tweaking who I think I'm going to see, and honestly I'll be doing almost the entirety of my Thursday at the other tent. EMA -> Phantogram. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed EMA. I wouldn't say I'm pumped up for her, but I'm really very curious as to how her album translates from headphones to live.