Where: Lodge Room Highland Park
Los Angeles
CA
90042
United States
Los Angeles
What: Lightman & Lightman @ Lodge Room Highland Park
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Originally from Illinois, Meg Remy is established as one of the most acclaimed songwriters and performers to emerge from Toronto’s eclectic underground music scene where she currently lives. As the creative force behind the musical entity U.S. Girls, her celebrated discography spans 15 years from early experimental works released on the Siltbreeze label and includes three Polaris Prize shortlisted albums on 4AD: Half Free (2015), In A Poem Unlimited (2018), and Heavy Light (2020). All three albums also garnered Juno nominations for Best Alternative Album. Remy has toured extensively through Europe and North America, establishing a reputation for politically astute commentary and theatrical performances with her extended U.S. Girls band, leading her to be named the best live act of 2018 by Paste Magazine. During this time, she has maintained a visual arts practice, exhibited collage work and directed several music videos and other video art works including her short film Woman’s Advocate (2014), in which she also performed. Recently, Remy published her first book, a memoir called Begin By Telling (2021), and she also made her first foray into film-scoring this year, having been tapped for filmmaker (and fellow Torontonian) Grace Glowicki’s surreal horror-comedy Dead Lover (which world-premiered at Sundance Film Festival and featured at SXSW). As a platform and persona, U.S. Girls operates on a uniquely out-of-time wavelength, alternately wronged and rueful, classic but contemporary, bruised vignettes of poetic Americana through a feminist lens. Her most recent album, Bless This Mess (2023), marked both a divergence from and deepening of Remy’s songbook, more at peace with her restless truths and moods. New music is set to follow in 2025.
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Canadian twin sisters formerly known as Tasseomancy, Lightman & Lightman’s debut album Sister Smile Sister Smile draws upon themes of devotion, finding universal strands of beauty in the study of spiritual work. There is a timeless quality to their astral folk songs, weaving shimmering electronics into acoustic arrangements, while the twin sisters’ close harmonies recall The Roches or Kate and Anna McGariggle. Interspersed throughout the record is an imagined conversation between a pair of 20th Century female mystics: Etty Hillesum and Jeanine Deckers. “We wanted to resurrect these two women as a means to examine a creative life founded in devotion,” explain siblings Romy and Sari Lightman, “while exploring our own relationship towards ideas of faith, sensuality, and defiance.”