Songwriter Kimya Dawson’s compositions have always straddled the worlds of music and literature, with her singsongy melodies supporting torrents of lyrics that are rich with writerly detail. (Her signature trick: Cracking you up until she empathetically stabs you in the heart.) Tonight, Night School at the Sorrento presents Dawson, in an appropriately music-and-lit-straddling setting where she’ll perform songs from her brand-new release Thunder Thighs, and writer Dream Hampton for a dialogue about the new album’s “major and minor themes: oceans, cancer, transgendered heroes, feeling safe in your own skin, saving public libraries.” (Sorrento Hotel, 900 Madison St, www.nightnightnight.org, 8 pm, $15, all ages)
David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest... More by David Schmader
Don’t do it, this woman is one of the most painfully untalented singers ever, even by the ridiculously low “hipster” standards. I’d rather have dental work done with a rusty icepick than listen to her ever again.