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04/11 Tuesday

7:00 PM Rosie Thomas/Luke Temple

the critique of pure reason
presents:

Tuesday, April 11, 7pm sharp

Sub Pop recording artist
Rosie Thomas
with Luke Temple

$7-10 suggested donation

production: stacie slotnick for the
critique of pure reason

Rosie Thomas bio:
Singer/songwriter Rosie Thomas has been shaping her sweet, delicate song
stylings since her early childhood, but she made a name for herself when
she joined Motor City dream pop band Velour 100. Thomas sang and toured
with the band during the late '90s before jumping ship for a solo career.
Mixing up the folk-pop of Joni Mitchell with indie sensibilities, Thomas
found herself surrounded by a new scene. She and Damien Jurado dueted on
"Wages of Sin" for Sub-Pop's 2001 compilation Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce
Springsteen's Nebraska as well as guested on "Parking Lot" on Jurado's
Ghost of David. Thomas, however, introduced something more reflective,
humorous, and intriguing on her solo debut, When We Were Small (Sub-Pop)
in early 2002. When she's not making music, Thomas' comedic alter ego, a
bespectacled pizza delivery girl who she's named Sheila may also appear.
Her winning streak continued in late 2003 with the release of her second
full-length release Only With Laughter Can You Win. If Songs Could Be Held
followed in 2005.

Luke Temple bio:
Simply put, great songwriting born of experience can?t be disguised?and
Salem, Massachusetts-born Luke Temple couldn?t hide his honest genius even
if he wanted to. Temple?s instinctual passion for all things musical
helped him through a tumultuous adolescence plagued by divorce. His first
year out of high school was spent living in a sleeping bag in the woods
and working in a candy store just outside of Mendicino, a culturally
questionable town in northern California. Temple washed up in the bathroom
at work, and gave pretty girls deals on their purchases. After his
life-changing time in California had run its course, he returned to the
East coast and spent the next five years at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston, where a scholarship award for painting afforded him
the ability to move to the city that would feed his music: New York.
There, Temple immersed himself in the solitary universe of bedroom
recording; meanwhile, his day jobs painting houses and doing construction
were serving to exhaust him. Congruent with the hard labor blues of 20s
masters like Leadbelly, but in touch with 70s-era NYC folk icons Paul
Simon and James Taylor, Temple?s compositions began to drip with
masterfully bluesy fingerpicking, smooth, gentle vocal intonations and
plaintive backyard lyricism. Copies of his four-tracked songs began to
circulate throughout the grand city, and Temple supplemented his income by
playing clubs and bars both solo and with various lineups before moving
westward once again.

10:00 PM A JUICY STATE

Gill Aharon-Piano
Andrew DiMola-Contrabass
Brian Viglione-Drums