Kimya Dawson

Not even sorrow can squash Dawson’s spirit.

A great quadruple bill is something to savor and appreciate. In all honestly, they don’t happen as much as they once did, back when we used to walk to rock clubs uphill both ways in the snow, barefoot, and the legal drinking age was 57 so we would need to sneak in the back door and do as many hard drugs as po

Kimya Dawson is not having a good day but she’s putting such a brave face on things that we wouldn’t even know. At least initially. Yet she’ll leave the stage at the end of an intense set in tears, as the crowd sings out a positive message.

It’s been over a decade since her band The Moldy Peaches went into indefinite-hiatus mode and almost as long since the chart-topping Juno soundtrack gave her solo career a late lift-off.

As the venue fills to a nearly full capacity a youthfulness throughout the crowd is surprisingly notable.

Clyde Petersen of Your Heart Breaks opened for Kimya Dawson at Sunday's show at the Old Town School of Folk Music, introducing his first song with: "This is a song about sneaking out of your parent's house to smoke weed in high school." It was like listening to my kid brother jam out on his guitar... if I had

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