{"id":853,"date":"2008-05-22T22:50:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T02:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2023-03-28T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:18:51","slug":"laura-veirs-bowery-ballroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/laura-veirs-bowery-ballroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Veirs live at Bowery Ballroom, New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This blogger has been a big fan of the bespectacled, water-obsessed Laura Veirs ever since first discovering her infectious song “Galaxies” on the late & lamented MP3 blog Salon Audiofile in 2005. Why it was not a huge hit, featured in iPod and car commercials, or soundtracking the denouements of The O.C.<\/em> or Gray’s Anatomy<\/em>, I’ll never understand. Still, she’s evidently doing well for herself, for I’ve now seen her live three times in New York City, and each time she’s graduated to a larger venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the first time I’ve seen her perform solo, without her band The Saltbreakers (whom she lovingly refers to as The Bearded Men). Like seemingly every other singer\/songwriter these days, she employs live looping technology (pioneered by Joseph Arthur<\/a> and popularized by K.T. Tunstall<\/a>) to become a one-woman band, accompanying herself with looped beats and bass lines all generated on a single acoustic guitar. The mood was great and she was well-received, and she later ranked New York City as the best audience of the tour on her MySpace blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This blogger has been a big fan of the bespectacled, water-obsessed Laura Veirs ever since first discovering her infectious song “Galaxies” on the late & lamented MP3 blog Salon Audiofile in 2005. Why it was not a huge hit, featured in iPod and car commercials, or soundtracking the denouements of The O.C. or Gray’s Anatomy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[1066,1112],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-stars","category-music","tag-bowery-ballroom","tag-laura-veirs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/veirs1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-dL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":430,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/joseph-arthur-bowery-ballroom-new-york\/","url_meta":{"origin":853,"position":0},"title":"Joseph Arthur with special guest Michael Stipe, live at Bowery Ballroom, New York, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"September 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"???? 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