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09/30 Thursday
8:00 PM Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra
http://www.myspace.com/ethanlipton
Dubbed "The Best Lounge Act of 2009" by New York Magazine, Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra play a kind of jazz-folk-country-alternative with a chewy singer-songwriter center. The quartet, whose musical stylings stylings have been compared to Tom Waits, Randy Newman and They Might Be Giants, comes to Cambridge in support of its second studio album, HONKER. The band appears frequently at New York clubs Joe's Pub and Barbes, and has played around the region at MASS MoCA and the Camden Opera House. They've opened for such diverse artists as The National and Steve Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, and songwriter Lipton recently sang backup for Laurie Anderson on Letterman. The band has been featured on NPR's "Weekend Edition" and in the Portia de Rossi movie "The Shift," and contributed "Corner Soul" to the Clash cover album THE SANDINISTA PROJECT. Cambridge bonus: Guitar player Eben Levy was a founding member and frontman for the legendary Boston band Chucklehead.
“It's got sweet melodies, songs that are both intricate and immediate, hilarious moments, heartbreaking moments, a great band, and a charismatic performer up front to deliver it all.”
-POPMATTERS
“Ethan Lipton is to lounge lizardry what Peter Sellers’s Inspector Clouseau is to policing, presenting his singular, funny-miserable take on life via jazzy, brass-festooned songs. Good stuff…” - TIME OUT NY
“Songwriter Ethan Lipton is an ambivalent nostalgist with a playwright's ear (because he is one) for conversational lyrics. On his cautionary new album, Honker, the dry singer and his elegantly spacious trio perform songs about bicycles, Tupperware, guilt, pit bulls, hippies, Internet love, and the afterlife. It’s like a peek into an old curio shop from a hundred years ago.”
-VILLAGE VOICE
“If you buy one album this June, make it Honker by Ethan Lipton and His Orchestra.”
-THE LATE GREATS