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A Little Night Music: Katy Goodman’s La Sera
For Interview, I spoke with Katy Goodman, of Vivian Girls, about her extraordinary new album, La Sera:
Katy Goodman is singing to me. Though she’s at soundcheck in downtown Los Angeles with her primary band, Vivian Girls, she isn’t singing one of their songs. Nor is she testing a tune from her other band, La Sera, whose lush album of Brill Building-inspired songs has just come out.
Instead, she’s singing the hook to a rap song that was popular ten years ago, into her cell phone. Later, while transcribing our call’s tape, I’ll hear in the background the other Vivians—Cassie Ramone and Fiona Campbell—pleading with her to stop. But never mind those details. The important thing is, right now, Katy Goodman is singing to me and I feel like the Ione Skye of noise pop. When she finally complies with her bandmates’ request, our interview begins in earnest.Read the entire article here.
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