FOUND in Benson

The newest issue of FOUND in Benson came out last night and, if you have the means, you should definitely check it out. Content for the zine and the number of copies printed each week solely depends on how many submissions we get and how much people donate. This week was a pretty limited run of 100, but there should be copies in a few places around the Dundee area (Amsterdam, Blue Line Coffee, etc) as well as all of the usual businesses in Benson.

This is the cover of this week's issue.


















This zine is something I am really proud of and am happy to be a part of. Also in this issue: an interview with Beck from AYGAMG (who is playing a show tonight at the Pizza Shoppe with Addison Wright and Whipkey Zimmerman), a great fiction piece from Aaron Shipp, poetry from Scott 'Zip' Zimmerman, and a great new mix-tape (which you can stream online at the FOUND in Benson Facebook page). Check it out if you have time.

AYGAMG

This is a video for the band All Young Girls Are Machine Guns. Beck Lowry IS the band. She played a show last night at the Slowdown with Little Black Stereo and Danielle Ate the Sandwich, other uke player from Colorado. Beck is a pretty great singer and you should check her out. She's got a couple shows coming up next month and also got some recognition it this week's Reader. If you're interested, you can also check out her YouTube channel here. She's got a ton of originals, a bunch of soul covers, and some local covers including It's True, Brad Hoshaw, and Midwest Dilemma.




Here's the blurb posted by Sarah Wengert from The Reader: I’ve been having a series of daydreams where I become a travel writer, or a masseuse, or work in a greenhouse — things I’ve always wanted to do, but just haven’t; less stressful antidotes to the hair-tearing pressures of my current gig managing the content for this fine paper. Another of my reoccurring daydream wishes is to play the ukulele. Local musician Rebecca Lowry is living my daydream. Curious about her act, billed All Young Girls Are Machine Guns, I contacted Lowry for the 411 on the u-k-e. “My act, as it were, is me and a ukulele,” she said. “I’ve been playing for a little over a year, writing songs for just under a year. Lowry said her influences “are largely swing-era jazz singers like Billie Holiday or Anita O’Day,” but she also loves ’50s and ’60s pop and soul. “I started off posting some covers to YouTube as I was learning how to play,” Lowry said. “Then I wrote and posted my first song. I started hanging out at Barley Street Tavern [on Mondays]. You can’t [just] play covers there so I had to start writing more songs.”

She's a pretty solid lady, a good songwriter, and she's got a great voice.

Music News

I just found out that It's True got accepted to play at SXSW this year! Add this to the list of reasons I wish I had enough money to go. I am so proud of this band.
Also, this Friday will be the grand re-opening of The Waiting Room - since they've been closed for the remodels the past couple of weeks - and there's a free show with Kyle Harvey, Little Black Stereo, and Little Brazil. Yes, free. You should probably go.



Also, this Saturday at the Barley Street Tavern Kyle Harvey, Kick Narl and the Boys (Nick Carl), and All Young Girls Are Machine Guns will be playing. Starts at 9, $5. Should be a solid show. If you haven't seen Nick Carl before, you should definitely come out. Also, you can check out AYGAMG YouTube channel here for her original music as well as some local and classic covers.