Cool photo from FemmeFest 09
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunahzon/3636197380/
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Borges' boots are made for touring
Borges' boots are made for touring
Singer leaves behind the country flavor of her previous CDs and takes the rock road.
By David Menconi
(Raleigh) News & Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May. 27, 2009
"Metaphorically speaking, Sarah Borges has traded in her cowboy boots for rockin' shoes. Her new album, “The Stars Are Out” (Sugar Hill Records), starts out with a blast of Joan Jett-styled rock belligerence and proceeds from there with much rock, not much country – in marked contrast to her first two albums, which were grounded in honky-tonk twang."
"Literally speaking, however, Borges just can't bear to tamper with a wardrobe routine that has worked well for years. So even though she's in more of a rock frame of mind nowadays, she'll still have her trusty cowboy boots on when she plays Charlotte FemmeFest at Evening Muse on Saturday."
“I'm really superstitious about what I wear when I play, which has been a problem in the past,” she says, calling from Seattle. “You just can't wash things as much as you'd like on tour, for one thing. But I'm still wearing the boots. I never wore them to try and be ‘The Alt-Country Lady,' they're just what I normally wear.…
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Singer leaves behind the country flavor of her previous CDs and takes the rock road.
By David Menconi
(Raleigh) News & Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May. 27, 2009
"Metaphorically speaking, Sarah Borges has traded in her cowboy boots for rockin' shoes. Her new album, “The Stars Are Out” (Sugar Hill Records), starts out with a blast of Joan Jett-styled rock belligerence and proceeds from there with much rock, not much country – in marked contrast to her first two albums, which were grounded in honky-tonk twang."
"Literally speaking, however, Borges just can't bear to tamper with a wardrobe routine that has worked well for years. So even though she's in more of a rock frame of mind nowadays, she'll still have her trusty cowboy boots on when she plays Charlotte FemmeFest at Evening Muse on Saturday."
“I'm really superstitious about what I wear when I play, which has been a problem in the past,” she says, calling from Seattle. “You just can't wash things as much as you'd like on tour, for one thing. But I'm still wearing the boots. I never wore them to try and be ‘The Alt-Country Lady,' they're just what I normally wear.…
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Rain or Shine - SBBS Live at Tropical Heatwave
Rain or Shine - SBBS Live at Tropical Heatwave
From Soundcheck
St. Petersburg Times
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"8:08 p.m.: Here's an awesome thing that just happened."
"Sarah Borges was wrapping up her set in the Bandshell. It was drizzling, but her audience had slowly built back up during the course of her rip-roaring blues-rock set. And in the middle of her final song, she decided the audience wasn't quite as into it as she felt they ought to be."
"So Borges hopped offstage (sans mic), ran through the crowd, grabbed a vinyl chair and climbed on. She implored the audience to join her in a rain-soaked, unplugged call-and-response."
"Turn your lights down low!" Borges called.
"TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW!"
"Open up your back door!"
"OPEN UP YOUR BACK DOOR!"
She pulled a fan's fuzzy purple hat off his head and did it all again.
"Turn your lights down low!"
"TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW!"
"Open up your back door!"
"OPEN UP YOUR BACK DOOR!
"Then she ran back onstage and finished her set. Great stuff. This is the kind of moment that you hear about whenever people reminisce fondly of Heatwave."
From Soundcheck
St. Petersburg Times
Read More
"8:08 p.m.: Here's an awesome thing that just happened."
"Sarah Borges was wrapping up her set in the Bandshell. It was drizzling, but her audience had slowly built back up during the course of her rip-roaring blues-rock set. And in the middle of her final song, she decided the audience wasn't quite as into it as she felt they ought to be."
"So Borges hopped offstage (sans mic), ran through the crowd, grabbed a vinyl chair and climbed on. She implored the audience to join her in a rain-soaked, unplugged call-and-response."
"Turn your lights down low!" Borges called.
"TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW!"
"Open up your back door!"
"OPEN UP YOUR BACK DOOR!"
She pulled a fan's fuzzy purple hat off his head and did it all again.
"Turn your lights down low!"
"TURN YOUR LIGHTS DOWN LOW!"
"Open up your back door!"
"OPEN UP YOUR BACK DOOR!
"Then she ran back onstage and finished her set. Great stuff. This is the kind of moment that you hear about whenever people reminisce fondly of Heatwave."
Monday, May 25, 2009
Review: Stars are Out - "every tune is immediately lovable"
The Promise Live
http://thepromiselive.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-music-for-may-2009.html
Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles - The Stars Are Out (2009)
"Rocking somewhere between new wave and alt-country, Sarah Borges continues to knock out some of the most rockin' CDs you're gonna hear these days. She would have been all over rock radio back in the day. There isn't a bad song on this CD and every tune is immediately lovable. This will be high up on my year end list."
http://thepromiselive.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-music-for-may-2009.html
Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles - The Stars Are Out (2009)
"Rocking somewhere between new wave and alt-country, Sarah Borges continues to knock out some of the most rockin' CDs you're gonna hear these days. She would have been all over rock radio back in the day. There isn't a bad song on this CD and every tune is immediately lovable. This will be high up on my year end list."
Thursday, May 21, 2009
SBBS on NPR
Old-Fashioned Cover Band Shoots For The 'Stars'
By Ken Tucker
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104385345
"Fresh Air from WHYY, May 21, 2009 - Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles are a Boston-area quartet raised on punk rock and country music. Their new album The Stars Are Out contains five original songs and five covers from artists ranging from The Lemonheads to NRBQ.
To make sure you don't think the title is a pun, the album features a picture of a glittering night sky, because Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles are certainly not stars. The group's primary charm, which is communicated very well on this album, is that it's a very good live act, an old-fashioned bar band playing a mixture of original material and covers of others' hits.
What lifts The Stars Are Out above the work of most bar bands is that Borges and her cohorts are able to put their own mark on the material they didn't write, such as their nicely moody version of a Stephen Merritt/Magnetic Fields song, "No One Will Ever Love You."
Borges and the three guys who form the Broken Singles build their own material not just around Borges' voice, which can cut across the guitars like a knife, but also around their shared fondness for pop music history. Take, for example, "Me and Your Ghost," in which Borges does some channeling of Lesley Gore circa "It's My Party," girl-group harmonies, and Mersey-beat rhythms. It's a 60s throwback that's refreshingly free of camp or irony.
The question here is whether good taste in pop music history and deft skill at reproducing a wide range of styles can cohere as something original. In this, I'm not entirely convinced. Certainly, the group's energetic eclecticism comes to them naturally. But then, originality can be overrated. Sometimes coming up with a great set-list for your live act — which is basically what The Stars Are Out amounts to as a collection of songs — is its own reward.
Listen to Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles and you want to get out of your house or apartment and hear some good live music. In this, the band is a fine motivator, a reminder of how much fun music can be, making it and hearing it being played by people for whom it means absolutely everything — a feeling they just want to share."
By Ken Tucker
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104385345
"Fresh Air from WHYY, May 21, 2009 - Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles are a Boston-area quartet raised on punk rock and country music. Their new album The Stars Are Out contains five original songs and five covers from artists ranging from The Lemonheads to NRBQ.
To make sure you don't think the title is a pun, the album features a picture of a glittering night sky, because Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles are certainly not stars. The group's primary charm, which is communicated very well on this album, is that it's a very good live act, an old-fashioned bar band playing a mixture of original material and covers of others' hits.
What lifts The Stars Are Out above the work of most bar bands is that Borges and her cohorts are able to put their own mark on the material they didn't write, such as their nicely moody version of a Stephen Merritt/Magnetic Fields song, "No One Will Ever Love You."
Borges and the three guys who form the Broken Singles build their own material not just around Borges' voice, which can cut across the guitars like a knife, but also around their shared fondness for pop music history. Take, for example, "Me and Your Ghost," in which Borges does some channeling of Lesley Gore circa "It's My Party," girl-group harmonies, and Mersey-beat rhythms. It's a 60s throwback that's refreshingly free of camp or irony.
The question here is whether good taste in pop music history and deft skill at reproducing a wide range of styles can cohere as something original. In this, I'm not entirely convinced. Certainly, the group's energetic eclecticism comes to them naturally. But then, originality can be overrated. Sometimes coming up with a great set-list for your live act — which is basically what The Stars Are Out amounts to as a collection of songs — is its own reward.
Listen to Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles and you want to get out of your house or apartment and hear some good live music. In this, the band is a fine motivator, a reminder of how much fun music can be, making it and hearing it being played by people for whom it means absolutely everything — a feeling they just want to share."
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