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Blogs / Lounge Act / November 2008 / The Lounge Act Meets the Hotel Cafe

The Lounge Act Meets the Hotel Cafe

You might think releasing a double-album is a might ambitious for a relatively unknown singer/songwriter trying to capitalize on the goodwill engendered by her debut.

Rachael Yamagata doesn't care, though. Three years after her debut, Happenstance, garnered her plenty of critical kudos and some commercial success, she returned with a monster-sized set of tunes, a 15-song double-disc called Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart. But consider this: even though she put out a giant set, it could have been even bigger. Yamagata wrote about 160 songs — most of them, like her past work, involving heartbreak, breakups and other romantic trials — in between recording sessions.

On her current tour, Yamagata is leading the traveling Hotel Cafe jaunt, featuring a number of female singer-songwriters on the cusp of breaking through to wider audiences. Among those on board: Kate Havnevik, Emily Wells, Lenka, Meiko and Thao Nguyen. The show stops tonight at The Avalon Theater, 3605 S. State in Salt Lake City at 7 p.m.

Over at the Murray Theater, another all-ages venue, it's emo mayhem featuring Emery, Hawthorne Heights, The Color Fred, The Mile After, Tickle Me Pink. And at Kilby Court, catch The Vincent Black Shadow, Nim Vind and Black Tie Dynasty.

 Those of you of legal drinking age, and with a sordid sense of humor, might want to check out the activities at Club Sound, where silly cracker rapper Mickey Avalon does his love-it-or-hate-it brand of jokey hip-hop.

On the non-music tip, it's opening night of the Salt Lake Acting Company's latest production, Six Years, a decade-hopping family drama. Check here next week for a review. And it's opening night of the Sandy Art Show tonight at 6:30 at the Sandy Senior Center, 9310 S. 1300 East.