This Dork Reporter has been a big fan of the bespec­ta­cled, water-obsessed Laura Veirs ever since first dis­cov­er­ing her infec­tious song “Galax­ies” on the late MP3 blog Salon Audiofile in 2005. Why it was not a huge hit, fea­tured in iPod or car com­mer­cials and embed­ded in the denoue­ments of The O.C. or Gray’s Anatomy, I’ll never under­stand. Still, she’s evi­dently doing well for her­self, for I’ve now seen her live three times in New York City, and each time she’s grad­u­ated to a larger venue.

This is the first time I’ve seen her per­form solo, with­out her band The Salt­break­ers (whom she lov­ingly refers to as The Bearded Men). Like seem­ingly every other singer/songwriter these days, she employs live loop­ing tech­nol­ogy (pop­u­lar­ized by Joseph Arthur and ripped off by K.T. Tun­stall) to become a one-woman band, accom­pa­ny­ing her­self with looped beats and bass lines all gen­er­ated on a sin­gle acoustic gui­tar. The mood was great and she was well-received, and she later ranked New York City as the best audi­ence of the tour.

Offi­cial site: www.lauraveirs.com

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