Who's playing this Saturday? (June 28th show)

Amelia McLean, according to an instagram post, left the fundamentalist cult she was raised in almost ten years ago.  She’s composed an EP inspired by this departure, hoping to help others who find themselves experiencing similar circumstances.  Her songs, though they concern religion, are not corny worship songs, but a deep even-keeled analysis on personal philosophy, and the existence of something like magic in the world.  “Holy” is a wonderful song, harmonically interesting, and lyrically enticing.  

Buppy. hails from Park City, Utah, a famous little ski town.  Readers raised in normal places might not know that growing up in a mountain resort town is misunderstood.  For certain months out of the year, or certain weeks like Christmas, your town is invaded by tourists and Texans.  During other parts of the year, entire sections of the city are almost empty.  The only constant is your friends, and most people’s parents work somehow for the resort.  People think your life is great because you live in Park City, Vail, Aspen, Telluride, but they don’t see how the people actually live - at the edge of a salt-stained parking lot, shivering, cheefing a bowl in your homie’s Subaru because there is literally no where else for you to be, and nothing to do.  Because of this, starved for culture and with youth waning, you try different things.  As someone who came up the same way, I feel this in Buppy’s music.  There’s a lot of variety.  Latest single “The Wait” is about holding out and hoping for the one you really want.  

The Wren.  You’ve never heard heavy thoughts sound so light.  The Wren brings small moments into sharp focus in poetic verse.  This is perfect coffee shop music, rainy day in a woodland shack music, I wish self driving cars were around already so I could lay back and listen to this on my way home music.  Her latest single, “redwood trees”, is all of the above and a bit more.  

Blame My Youth is coming to us from Big Loud Rock.  He’s best suited to ride his chopper into the western sky, with one of his girls on the back.  Songs about good love from bad beauties, unhealable emotional wounds, and an everlasting search for the pleasures of freedom.  Latest single “Something I Didn’t Ask For”, tells the story of falling for the femme fatale. 

Anni is our founder of Saturdays At Seven and also an artist. She's a poet and incorporates her poetry into her songwriting, making moody excentric songs. The LA native released her debut poetry book last year and is planning to release new music later this summer. She will be accompanied by her cowriter, Alia Solimon to play some new songs they've been working on.