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CONCERT PREVIEW: Auburn’s He Is We has a Taylor Swiftian ingenuousness
By MIKEL TOOMBS
“Is this more than a crush?” He Is We singer Rachel Taylor asks on “Blame It on the Rain,” one (actually two) of the many simple and engaging songs on the Auburn, Wash., duo’s current release, “Old Demos.”
Yes, there’s a Taylor Swiftian ingenuousness to the pop-topped He Is We, and while the demos [...]
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Rising Texas singer-songwriter Sahara Smith has a really haunting sound
By MIKEL TOOMBS
When Sahara Smith was introduced to me as a “222-year-old rising Texan artist,” I knew I had to check her out. Pretty impressive, I thought: Was the “rising” in question from an Austin graveyard?
OK, so it turns out, not surprisingly, that the lovely Ms. Smith is only 22. But that’s pretty impressive in [...]
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