FEATHE

Chip-Falls’ Feathe is officially at-large. Their Wisconsin-Minnesota tour in support of their new EP, Tithing with God in the Milkweed, started here in the Chippewa Valley on July 30, and went as far north as Duluth. By the time you read this, they will be heading south into Green Bay and Madison. Feathe will play with the likes of ex-Bright Eyes’ David Dondero, Anna Vogelzang, and We Are the Willows while on the road. And locals will have the chance to catch them on August 22 at the State Theater’s AnnaLily Fair. Working together since high school, Alyssa Rieper and Johanne Swanson challenge the ‘guy-girl duo’ trend and align themselves closer to riot grrrl. Except Feathe play acoustic songwriter’s music the polar opposite of punk. The new songs are quiet and pretty, slow-plucked ones, like the kind that need no microphones. Perhaps it’s more like griot grrrl. Check out Feathe’s three-song EP on MySpace or Facebook.