10. TIE: Japanese Breakfast, The Linda Lindas at Bell’s Beer Garden in Kalamazoo; Norah Jones, Emily King at Meijer Gardens, July 17– They were two wildly different shows in radically different outdoor venues, but both attracted capacity audiences. Japanese Breakfast ignited standing-room-o...
In 2015, the author was interviewed and items from this article were used by Nimitz High School in Houston, Texas, to build a “Leadership and Legacy in History” website for a National History Competition sponsored by the History Channel. In 2016, parts of this story were also used by Bo...
The release of Japanese Breakfast’s third album, by contrast, is a different kind of catharsis, presenting Zauner’s best and most beautiful songs to date. The change is clear from the opener “Paprika,” which finds sunrise synths giving way to a bright burst of horns and Zauner’s soar...
It’s been tough, because it shifted the album release back. We were supposed to come out with an album last year, and then we pushed it a year later. So it was actually pretty hard, because I had finished these two really big creative projects that hadn’t come out yet, so it was...