Asha Wells, Nighttime, Claire Cronin

Sun., 5/12/24 -- Asha Wells, Nighttime (LA), Claire Cronin. 8pm, $12 adv., $15 door, 21+

Asha Wells

"Oakland-based vocalist and performer Asha Wells said they have a wide range of people to draw musical inspiration from, including Ella Fitzgerald, Modest Mouse, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, and Joni Mitchell. Originally from Mountain View and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, their background in classical vocal training was in opera, folk song, and musical theater. They taught themselves how to play guitar at 16 years old to accompany their singing and later learned to play the piano and bass. Musically, they describe their style as art folk or chamber pop.” - KQED

https://ashawells.bandcamp.com/

Nighttime

A gift for lovers of 60s folk and crystalline, song-y psychedelia, Nighttime aka Eva Louise Goodman, delivers fluent, buoyant compositions that run the gamut of psych-pop, girl group, and Americana. Nighttime's third full length album, Keeper Is The Heart, engineered and co-produced by Florist's Rick Spataro, was released on Ba Da Bing! Records in 2023 to critical acclaim. Lauded by Bandcamp as Best New Music, they called the record “a mystical tapestry of psychedelic folk.” Nighttime reaches deep into the essence of musicians such as Vashti Bunyan, Sibylle Baier and Pentangle, breaking down the decades into a sound thoroughly and bizarrely modern.

https://nighttimes.bandcamp.com/album/keeper-is-the-heart

Claire Cronin

Bloodless is the new album by Los Angeles-based musician and writer Claire Cronin. Expanding upon the supernatural and metaphysical themes of her critically acclaimed 2019 album Big Dread Moon and her 2020 “horror memoir” Blue Light of the Screen (published by Repeater Books), Bloodless is a powerful work of haunted Americana by one of contemporary indie music’s finest singer-songwriters.

https://clairecronin.bandcamp.com/album/bloodless