Deanna Devore w/ Amy Musser - $6

While most artists pack their bags for bigtime in New York, 24 year-old Toronto import Deanna Devore opted in 2006 to make music in Chicago. Just unpacked, she played anywhere she could find a stage and a PA system while spending her days at Steve Albini-s Electrical Audio, recording and co-producing a seven-song EP with Bjorn Thorsrud (Smashing Pumpkins, Dandy Warhols), on which she played nearly every instrument with some backup from drumming heavyweight Matt Walker (Morrissey, Garbage). Raised by musical parents, her voice, guitar playing and songwriting well exceed her years as she carries a lyrical sensitivity, a maturity and sophistication that spans across rock, folk, Brazilian jazz, electro-dance, and orchestral territories. With an ever-expanding song catalogue, Devore and her band have headlined and shared sold-out local, regional, and national fest stages such as CMJ, North By Northeast, and 80/35 with touring acts Tigercity, Bonobo, Joe Pug, Office, Colourmusic, Blind Pilot and fellow Canadians Basia Bulat and Juno Award-winning Lights. 2011 now bears the fruit of her early labor with regional tour dates in the works, a string of solo shows, and a debut full-length album to be recorded and released in the US and Canada later this year.

Amy Musser first began playing guitar around the age of fifteen and started to compose songs not long after. Inspired by the folk music played by her parents during her childhood, the psychedelic rock bands that played in friends\' basements during college, and a love for French pop, she began crafting her own unique sound. Though people often compare her breathy and moody vocals to those of Hope Sandoval, Cat Power, and Vashti Bunyan- her song writing style remains unique, and is continuously evolving. She is currently working on an EP that will include several songs sung in French, and combines the sounds of 60s French pop with some folkier influences.