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This week,
City Weekly asked some questions of the local music community whether they re players themselves, simple fans, or the kind of people who work in other capacities like managing venues, booking shows and otherwise doing the work to make our music scene what it is. We asked: With almost a year of pandemic upon us, what are y all are looking forward to most this year, whether the pandemic ends or not? Trying for hopefulness here, or at least some forward-looking-ness.
Landon Young (@oklandon), local music fan: I m looking forward to starting new band(s) and hopefully seeing a live show before the year s end. 2020 taught me to not take live music and venues for granted especially when touring artists are involved. I think it s going to be wild once things are cleared. The album-to-tour cycle is broken, so anybody that s released an album in the previous two to three years will likely try to tour at the same time. Fewer venues exist, so there ll be stacked shows every nigh
“I just want to make lo-fi pop songs with my garbage equipment,” says
Polly Llewellyn, who records under the name Peachy Fingernail. The newest in a steady stream of releases since May of 2020, her new album,
I’m Nothing If Not a Silly Girl, will come out this February. Drawing inspirations from movie soundtracks she grew up with as well as artists like
Björk and
Deerhunter, Llewellyn pieces together her eclectic tracks using any and all equipment at hand. “I have very low professional standards until its time for people to hear it, and then I get upset about my low standards in recording,” says Llewellyn with a laugh.