Paste Studio on the Road: New York, Jan. 25-31
By Josh Jackson | January 24, 2021 | 12:38pm
Photos courtesy of the artists. Becca Stevens photo by David Goddard.
Since bands can no longer come to the Paste Studio, we’ve decided to take the Paste Studio to the bands and bring live music right into your home.
One of the things we’ve missed most this year is live music. With artists across the nation and the world stuck at home, we’ll be traveling city to city, partnering with studios and venues to bring the high-quality live-stream sessions our audience has come to expect from the Paste Studio.
Arlo Parks:
On a personal level, Parks struggled with her identity growing up; a self-confessed tom boy who was super sensitive and uncool , she says it was like I m a black kid who can t dance for shit, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on some girl in my Spanish class. By the time she reached 17, she shaved her head, figured out she was bisexual and produced/wrote an album s worth of material.
Growing up in South West London, half Nigerian, a quarter Chadian and a quarter French, Arlo Parks learned to speak French before English. A quiet child, she d write short stories and create fantasy worlds, later journalling and then obsessing over spoken word poetry, reading American poets such as Ginsberg and Jim Morrison and watching old Chet Baker performances on YouTube. These days she references Nayyirah Waheed, Hanif Abdurraqib and Iain S. Thomas as her favourite modern poets, and it is clear that their works are as influential on her songwriting as any musician. Book