Okay, okay. White flag. I’ll be the first male admit it: Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent is proof-positive of ye olde time-honored axiom that “Girls Rule, Boys Drool.” She’s cool, confident, and funny; she bros down and hangs out with dudes all day for months at a time, she covers The Beatles without fear (or even too much reverence), she releases top-notch records like this year’s Actor (TMT Review); she hangs out with Grizzly Bear; she’s a hell of a lot more lucid than that Marnie Stern; she presumably sweats up a storm at all of her shows while shredding the nickel-wound fuck out of that souped-up Harmony guitar like Thurston Greenwood... And yet, through all of that, her lipstick stays just perfect. If that’s not the model of a 21st-century career woman, I don’t know what is.
Don’t believe me? Well, hear the woman roar yourself this fall when Clark and her band of merry men criss-cross the U.S. on yet another victory lap for rock chicks everywhere. Though... actually, now that I think about it, I’m not so sure that the Annie-Clark-ruling-while-boys-drool thing is really all the Women’s Lib victory thing that it’s cracked up to be, since, in this case, the boys are actually just drooling at her. And hell, from the shows I’ve seen, most of the girls are just drooling at her too.
St. Vincent tour:
09.29.09 - Indianapolis, IN - The Murat Theater
09.30.09 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
10.01.09 - St. Louis, MO - Firebird
10.03.09 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitina's
10.05.09 - Birmingham, AL - WorkPlay Soundstage
10.07.09 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10.08.09 - Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
10.09.09 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
10.10.09 - Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium
10.12.09 - Charleston, SC - Mic Farm
10.13.09 - Knoxville, TN - Bijou Theatre
10.14.09 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's - Front Room
10.16.09 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon
10.17.09 - Madison, WI - Pabst Theater
10.18.09 - Birmingham, AL - The State Theatre
10.19.09 - Minneapolis, MN - Southern Theatre
10.20.09 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
10.21.09 - Buffalo, NY - Asbury Hall @ Babeville
10.22.09 - Ithaca, NY - Castaways
10.24.09 - South Portland, ME - South Portland High School
10.25.09 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
10.26.09 - South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom
10.27.09 - Providence, RI - Lupo's
10.28.09 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
