Liz Phair, Kate Bollinger
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A close-up of Liz Phair.
Liz Phair
Liz Phair came on the indie rock scene about the same time as the riot grrrl movement was taking off. Her lo-fi singer/songwriter approach was more electric than folk, and she was punk in attitude more than sound. That didn’t mean Phair wasn’t angry, and her loopy, offbeat, harmonic melodies contrasted with fierce lyrics that spelled out in no uncertain terms what it felt like to be a woman in a man’s world. Phair will play in its entirety the groundbreaking Exile in Guyville, now 30 years after its release, plus more hits, with a full band. Kate Bollinger, a soft-voiced singer songwriter from Charlottesville, Virginia, opens.
Playing "Exile in Guyville" and more. $49.50.
media release: Liz Phair will be playing at The Sylvee on December 8 to celebrate 30 years of her 1993 debut album, Exile in Guyville. She will be performing the album in its entirety (including some other hits) accompanied by a full band! This tour is going to be a special one that you won’t want to miss, especially because Liz is working with Kevin Newbury (production designer, did Kansas City Choirboy) and Natalie Frank (visual artist) to make a beautiful, singular stage show.
Liz & Natalie talk more about the tour among other things in this conversation via Interview Magazine - https://www.interviewmagazine.
In 2018, Matador Records reissued Exile in Guyville and released a deluxe box set titled Girly-Sound to Guyville, which included the remastered original album and the first official restored audio of 1991’s Girly-Sound tapes – early Phair works that were self-released on cassette. “Exile remains a kind of sanctified codex for girls: The map that pointed us toward adulthood, or something like it,” wrote Pitchfork assigning the collection a perfect 10.0.
Listen to “Miss Lucy,” a long-lost studio outtake that was recorded with Brad Wood during sessions for Exile in Guyville but was left off the album in favor of including “Flower.” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?
In the years following Exile In Guyville, Phair has continued to defy expectations and break barriers. She has released five albums, sold over five million records, composed music for television, and received two GRAMMY nominations. In 2019, she published a memoir, Horror Stories (Random House), which the LA Times called “a raw look at fame, motherhood and aging with all the unbridled honesty of the songs that put the singer in the spotlight in the first place.” On her most recent full-length, Soberish (2021), Phair reunited with Exile in Guyville producer Brad Wood. Variety called the album, “A superior work.” The New Yorker invoked her debut, writing “It often feels just as spontaneous and elemental.”
Phair has been featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, topped SPIN’s 20 Best Albums of the Year, and reached No.1 on the Village Voice Pazz and Jop Critics Poll. She joined Lilith Fair in 1998-9, performing as a main stage headliner along with top female acts of the day like Sarah McLachlan, Emmylou Harris, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott.
Today, three decades after the release of her debut, Phair’s influence in contemporary music – and particularly over female voices – resonates more strongly than ever.
Praise for ‘Exile in Guyville’:
“An emotionally honest low-fi masterpiece that stands on its own.” – Rolling Stone
“Exile remains a kind of sanctified codex for girls: the map that pointed us toward adulthood, or something like it.” – Pitchfork
“A kind of girl-next-door casually swinging a sledgehammer at rock ’n’ roll as we knew it, singing about sex, love and power in a direct, unmediated way that few women before her had.” – New York Times
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