The Loneliest Cowgirls | es

Imagine you are at a garage sale, looking through a couple's cassette collection when one catches your eye. It is simple, plain, and entirely handmade. You ask the lady about it, and she says it was from a friend in high school. You ask her to tell you more only to hear that she hasn't heard from him since. This is the beauty of The Loneliest Cowgirls. Pitchfork has been a big fan since day one, saying unashamedly "This is an emotional, psychological experience. The Loneliest Cowgirls sounds like a clouded brain trying to recall an alien abduction. It's the...

It is one of the most intriguing career trajectories in Australian country music – one more likely to have come from a film script than the harsh reality faced every day by those seeking to break through into a highly competitive business. “We’ve come a long way, so fast, that sometimes we can’t quite believe it,” marvels Sophie Clabburn, the elder half of The Sunny Cowgirls, whose infectious musical energy has garnered sales and popularity that has thrust them into a slender elite. “It’s always been a dream of ours to do this but we just didn’t think it would...

Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a candlelit ballroom. A haunting cello and drum beat provide the score for masked couples swaying on the dancefloor. A grandfather clock strikes midnight, and as the music swells, it seems that anything is possible. This is the world of The Loneliest Monk. Real-life couple Michelle Morales (master cellist, keyboardist, vocalist) and Miles Benjamin (percussion, vocals, tiny piano) create an ethereal mix of classical, art-rock and chamber pop that is at once beautiful, sexy, mysterious and cool. "a masquerade ball... Songs often sound as though they're cobbled together from old ghosts and memories."...

Punk rock band formed by vocalist Pat Todd, guitarist D.D. Weekday (aka Doug Phillips), and bassist Keith Telligman, who left their hometown of Vincennes, Indiana, in 1981 to move to California, hoping to get a rock band off the ground. In 1983, they finally settled on fellow Indiana refugee Allen Clark as a drummer, and began hitting the L.A. club circuit as The Lazy Cowgirls. After countless shows playing to “no one, and people from work” (according to Todd), the band caught the ear of Chris Desjardins (aka Chris D.), former leader of art-punks The Flesh Eaters. Desjardins got the...