Alice Smith

Surprise Shows in LA!
Hey everybody in LA! Alice here. Starting tomorrow night, I'll be playing two surprise shows, opening for Citizen Cope. Tuesday, 9/22 is at House of Blues in LA, and the show starts at 9pm, and Wednesday, 9/23 is at House of Blues in Anaheim, and also starts at 9pm. Tickets are available at citizencope.com. Tuesday 9/22 House of Blues LA @ 9pm/Doors 8pm 8430 W Sunset Blvd 323-848-5100 Wednesday 9/23 House of Blues Anaheim @ 9pm/Doors 8pm 1530 S Disneyland Dr 714-778-2583
Joe's Pub




Alice Smith is set to perform four headlining shows in May. Alice will be joined on stage by her full band at all three of the highly anticipated shows. Be sure to get your tickets early as they are set to be sellouts! 05/11/2009 10:00 PM - New York City @ The Mercury Lounge 217 E Houston St New York, 10002 Cost:$15 Doors open at 9pm. Show starts at 10pm. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 05/27/2009 08:30 PM - Alexandria, VA @ The Birchmere 3701 Mt Vernon Ave Alexandria, Virginia 22305 Cost:$25 Doors 6pm/Show 8:30pm. Tickets will be on sale SOON. 05/29/2009 08:00 PM - New York City @ Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette St New York, New York 10003 US Cost:$20 Doors 6:30pm/Show 8pm. TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 05/30/2009 09:30 PM - New York City @ Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette St New York, New York 10003 US Cost:$20 Doors 6:30pm/Show 9:30pm. TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

April 26, 2009 @ 01:00 PM - Brooklyn, NY @ Weeksville Heritage Center 1698 Bergen Street Brooklyn, 11213 US Cost : N/A Alice Smith is set to perform an afternoon show on Sunday, April 26, in Brooklyn as part of Weeksville Centerâ€™s Jazz Consortium Festival. She will be doing an acoustic performance. Come out for a good time, and you might just hear some new material she has been working on!
ALICE SMITH LIVE APPEARANCE ON WBUR 90.9 FM
Alice Smith will perform live, Thursday 1/22 @ 11am on WBUR's. "On Point" show with Tom Ashbrook. Listen in for the special acoustic performance series, with a song or two from her current album, Lovers, Dreamers & Me, along with something new!

ALICE SMITH TO PERFORM AT PROOF ON JANUARY 18TH Smith to Join Melody Gardot in Line-Up of Inauguration Weekend Events Washington, DC (January 9, 2009) â€“ On Sunday, January 18th, Proof will host a live performance by the sensational Grammy-nominated Sony recording artist and DC native Alice Smith. Tickets for the 10:30 PM performance are priced at $40. Tickets may be purchased along with dinner reservations for seatings starting at 9 PM, and a small number of tickets will also be available for viewing the show from the bar and lounge. Tickets and reservations are very limited for all performances. For ticket information and reservations, please email karen@proofdc.com or call Karen Chan at 202-737-7663. Proof is located at 775 G Street, NW, directly across from the National Portrait Gallery and one block from the Verizon Center and the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro rail station, serviced by the red, yellow, and green lines.
Alice Smith is the best jazz singer you've never heard of. Toure lets the secret out.
The best singer you've never heard of is Alice Smith, a tall, black soul singer from Brooklyn with a four-octave range in a voice than can go from sultry smooth to operatic power. You won't find her videos on MTV or BET, but you will find her singing in little places like the Blue Note in Manhattan, the Tin Angel in Philly, or the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC (check her website for when she'll be near you - she has five new dates in January). Her 2006 debut album, For Lovers, Dreamers, and Me, was named after a line that Kermit the Frog sung in his sentimental classic, "The Rainbow Connection" - a reference that tells you how much of a romantic Alice is. She'll have a new album out this spring (it's not yet named, but she says it won't be inspired by the Muppets this time). There's a bit of a Norah Jones/Lisa Loeb vibe to Smith - you get the sense that she's a music nerd who spends time honing her talent and her songs rather than learning dance moves and picking outfits. Indeed, Smith does not dance or drape on designers Beyonce would love, even though Smith, like Ms. Knowles-Carter, has some striking curves in her hourglass figure. I've met Smith a few times - she lives in Brooklyn not far from me with her boyfriend, musician Citizen Cope, so I emailed her directly. No need to go through people - I'm not sure she has them. Alice Smith is the best jazz singer you've never heard of. Toure lets the secret out. I came to singing organically," she told me of her start. In college she says she started singing backup "randomly." Then five years ago lightning struck. "I realized that I didn't want to do anything else. Plus, I realized I was good, and, most importantly, I actually loved to sing on stage." Now she's doing more than 100 shows a year. I think it's interesting that she remembers the moment she realized she was good. "I started to like my voice, the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me it sounded good that way as well." Smith does soul as it should be done: as a next-door neighbor to the blues, with all the necessary melancholy and honest emotion. Her debut sounded like something I might find when fingering through my parents' music collection so it's no surprise that she listens mostly to old music and her list of favorite singers includes Eartha Kitt, Judy Garland, Dinah Washington, and the incomparable Nina Simone. (Shouldn't all singers be required to study Nina?) Smith says, "I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras. So that's what I want to for my music, too." Toure is the host of BET's The Black Carpet and the host of Treasure HD's I'll Try Anything Once. He is the author of Never Drank the Kool-Aid, Soul City, and The Portable Promised Land. He was a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, was CNN's first pop culture correspondent, and was the host of MTV2's Spoke N Heard. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times.
Happy New Year From Alice
Happy New Year, Everybody!! I didn't want too much time to pass before I expressed my gratitude for the support of all of you over the past year. Everywhere I've been (shows, whole foods, over seas!!), I've met people who have wished me blessings and generally leant their positivity and encouragement to all my efforts. I know we've all been working hard to seek and accomplish our dreams, this year, and all year there are moments we remember once it's over. 2008 was no different, and I'd love to share with you some of my personal highlights, in case you weren't there to enjoy them with me. Early spring last year, after being nominated for a Grammy! (Huh?!!), I got to do my first network television appearances on Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel, and Craig Ferguson, out in LA. Once I was back in New York, I was asked to sing a few songs at the opening of the Rose Bar, at the Plaza Hotel. Wasn't that chic? I was also able to get SUPER excited when I sold out the Highline Ballroom. Everyone who cameâ€¦came for a good time and gave all of their good energy to the vibe. In the fall, I was so happy to be invited to open for Lenny Kravitz in Paris. Now I'm learning French; I can't even take it!! I went from there to London, where I did 4 more shows for people who actually knew my music, and they got down!! I went back to the west coast and ended up touring with sweet Santogold! Also on the tour were Mates of State, Low vs. Diamond, and the Ting Tings. Really a nice group of people; I was struck by it, and had great fun. Then Barack Obama was elected President while I was on the road with Citizen Cope!!! Holy mackerel!! I almost lost my mind and was thrown into a state of shock!! I'm just amazed. It's such a symbol of our ability to grow and create our own lives and a demonstration of our belief in possibility's endlessness. While all this was going on, I spent as much time as I could, working on my new album. I only have a little way to go!!! Woohoo! OH! And I had the best foie gras EVER in Montreal...so good!! Then I came back to Brooklyn and got my first Christmas tree in ages. I'd say I had a beautiful year full of hard work and reward. I'll be celebrating all of this at the Inauguration in DC, my home, before I get into my first dates of the New Year. I'll be headlining a trip with my band, starting in Boston on January 22nd. I'll be singing the new songs that some of you have heard before, plus I think I'll introduce one or two more!! You can buy tickets at www.myspace.com/alicesmith or alicesmith.com. I wish that you would. Happy New Year to Everyone! May we all be blessed with our health and peace, and may 2009 be filled with joy and prosperity. I hope to see you ALL soon!! Alice
New January Shows
Alice will be playing 5 new shows in January, check the tour section for full details.
4 Intimate Acoustic Performances by Alice Smith Added at the Blue Note in NYC
Alice Smith will perform two nights of intimate acoustic sets at New York's famed Blue Note Jazz Club on Nov 25 and Nov 26. Show times are 8pm and 10:30pm both nights. Tickets are ON SALE NOW at www.bluenote.net/newyork
Celebrate Christmas with Alice Smith
Hear Alice Smith's rendition of "Silver Bells" as part of Epic Records and Hotel Cafe's Winter Songs release. Other artists include Sara Bareilles, Lenka, Katy Perry, Fiona Apple, Brandi Carlile, and more! The track listing is as follows: 1. Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson - "Winter Song" 2. Brandi Carlile - "The Heartache Can Wait" 3. Lenka - "All My Bells Are Ringing" 4. KT Tunstall - "Sleigh Ride" 5. Alice Smith - "Silver Bells" 6. Nicole Atkins - "Blue Christmas" 7. Fiona Apple - "Frosty The Snowman" 8. Meiko - "Maybe Next Year (X-Mas Song)" 9. Holly Conlan - "I'll Be Home For Christmas" 10. Katy Perry - "White Christmas" 11. Colbie Caillat - "Mistletoe" 12. Priscilla Ahn - "Silent Night" 13. Kate Havnevik - "Winter Wonderland" 14. Catherine Feeny - "Christmas Song" 15. Hotel Cafe Medley - Auld Lang Syne (Charity Medley)
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ALICE SMITH'S 'FOR LOVERS, DREAMERS & ME' - OUT NOW!
FOR LOVERS, DREAMERS & ME Has Been Remastered and is AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE! CLICK HERE To Order the CD Today! Call your local stations and request the new single, "New Religion"!
Alice on AllHipHop.com!
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Alice in Glamour Magazine!
Check out Alice in January's Glamour Magazine as one of the "8 Things You'll Love This Month"
New Alice Videos!
Interview for REELBLACK TV ALICE performs "DREAM" at the Tin Angel in Philly
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Great write up on arjanwrites.com
From arjanwrites.com: Alice Smith Featured on HBO Entourage Alice Smith received some major love on Sunday night when her song "Dream" was featured during the closing credits of HBO's Entourage. The show is one of my favorite TV series on cable and not because of its amazing story plot. It's primarily because of the superb Jeremy Pives who playes the totally neurotic, over-the top talent agent Ari Gold, one of the most entertaining characters on television. After my pals of Chester French were featured on Entourage a few weeks back, it was a nice surprise to hear Smith played on the show. "Dream" is an exquisite, theatrical tune that showcases the singer's distinct vocals. Most people will probably label it as neo-soul, but I think the song is lot more unique, sultry and bluesy than that. And make sure to listen to Smith grooving out towards the end of the song. "Dream" is taken from her debut album "For Lovers, Dreamers & Me" that was released last year and invokes musical memories ranging from the young Diana Ross to the mature Billie Holiday. Sony's Epic Records recognized the singer's talent and will be re-releasing the disc in September. The record is an accomplished effort that deserves a lot more attention. Smith is one of those rare artists who can solely rely on her raw talent as opposed to being dependent on Timabland-inspired big beat productions that are ruling the charts.
Great Alice Article!
Great Article in The Portland Mercury: "Up & Coming" THURSDAY 8/2 ALICE SMITH, LIV WARFIELD (Doug Fir, 830 E Burnside) Much is made of singer/songwriter Alice Smith's four-octave range, but she kept it low and leering on her quaint 2006 debut, For Lovers, Dreamers and Me. A synthesis of the Great White Way and great balls of fire, For Lovers showcased Smith's off-kilter phrasing and uncommon posture, setting her apart from your melismatic soul singer. More Ben Folds than Beyoncé, the Washington, DC-bred beauty still belts with the best of them, evincing a childhood of Georgia summers on the rapturous "Dream," and a stressful Brooklyn young adulthood on the buoyant "Woodstock." Captivating in voice and presence, Smith, who's just stopping though on a brief West Coast tour, is not to be missed. JALYLAH BURRELL
New Tour Dates
Alice hits the road again next week for a run of headline shows that will take in New York, Philadelphia, LA, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland (click here for details). These will be her first solo dates in a while and, as such, are hotly anticipated. On the West Coast Alice will also be paying tribute to Quincy Jones at a special Grammy Foundation fundraiser, joining John Legend, Gloria Estefan, Babyface, Kanye West and Nancy WIlson on stage among many others. Under the musical direction of David Foster this year's prestigious Starry Night event will take place at UCLA.
Alice Receives Abe Olman Scholarship!
Alice has received the 2007 Abe Olman Scholarship for Excellence in Songwriting from the Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF). The scholarship, presented each year at the kick-off event to the SHOF induction ceremony, honors five gifted young composers and lyricists from songwriter programs sponsored by BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, SGA and the SHOF itself.
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The Album...
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Alice is a Clear Channel NEW! Artist
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Watch An Interview with Alice Smith!
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Alice Smith is in Los Angeles, staying high above Sunset Boulevard at that most iconic hotel of ripened Hollywood sensuality, the Chateau Marmont. Someone asks Smith if she likes it there. "Oh yeah," Smith answers with zero hesitation, "I do."

She has more to say on the subject of the hotel: "Here's the thing," Smith says, "the one room here that I went to is the best room. It's all windows -- you can see all over the hills. It's overlooking the whole city. It's up on the seventh floor, and it's all windows, and they all open." She mentions her dislike of the mysteriously muddy lighting that Los Angeles often cultivates in its interiors. "It's not like that in this room," Smith says. "I hate dark places. I really like to see the sky -- really, really a lot."

Recently turned 29, Smith is, on the evidence of her solo debut, 'For Lovers, Dreamers & Me' (BBE Records), the most promising female singer-songwriter to go her own enrapturing way in a very long time. Her voice, with its four-octave range, is luscious and powerful and nuanced and finely sensitive to rhythm. Yet it never makes a cult of its own abilities; for all its fantastic manners, Smith's voice gets on down the road. Sometimes she sings with a booming intensity, yet Smith never loses the unlearnable balance and poise that separates good singers from great ones. And her basic attitudes, which are audible in every unforced phrase she negotiates, are all her own.

Ask Smith if she thinks of 'For Lovers, Dreamers & Me' as any sort of new soul record, and she immediately responds with a couple of plain words: "I don't."

"I don't think of it as a soul record," she insists. "When I was in school, I really thought about soul a lot. I was listening a lot to Björk and to the Commodores. I really wanted to know how they felt. And especially with Björk, the music there told me wow, that's really her soul, there. I thought about her a lot, about the sound of her music… Well, it wasn't exactly about the sound, and it wasn't about what other people call 'finding your bounds', or whatever. I thought of her soul; her music made me contemplate her soul. It made me think of Björk, and how she felt. You know what I mean? What she felt like inside. It was never about the genre. So I just came never to think of the idea of soul as being about a category."

When she was growing up in Washington, D.C., Smith enjoyed a lot of time alone to think. She was the only child of parents who were full-grown adults by the time Smith was born; she loved, as she remembers, the "me-time." She always sang and always enjoyed a sharp memory for words and melodies. She never thought all that much about the singing; she just sang. But, in a rural contrast to the urban aloneness of Washington, Smith also grew up partly in the Georgia countryside, a familiar destination to which she would travel when she wasn't in school. Her mother's family lived in Augusta on a 69-acre farm, and when Smith wasn't in Washington, she was there..

"I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part," Smith says. "We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids -- my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me -- just a lot of kids at one time."

At 17, Smith moved from Washington to New York, where she continues to live, to enroll in Fordham University. She studied history and English -- or, as she puts it, "reading and writing." University life suited Smith. "I loved it," she remembers. "I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn't have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, maybe graduate school? I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It's very romantic and stimulating."

After college, Smith began to work as a back-up singer. She once briefly participated in what she calls "a little band" that played out and demoed ten or twelve songs. "For Lovers, Dreamers & Me" is her first solo album proper. It was produced by a drummer whom Smith met while putting together her first sessions for what became her debut album. Earlier, she had tried out and nixed a few producers. "I was recording these songs," Smith says, "and I needed a drummer. Because nobody else was doing it, he ended up producing the album. Then we started playing out." Things started to click.

Smith wrote four glorious songs of the ten that comprise 'For Lovers, Dreamers & Me'. These include "Dream," a quick-gaited wish for romantic success that constantly smoothes out its melodic and rhythmic angularity with colorful flourishes of reined-in brass and harmony vocals, and the lulling "Love Endeavor," which mixes bracingly the relative heat of downtown New York and Brazil. In between are the slow, shadowy, minor-key hopes and worries of "Do I," and an extraordinary thing entitled "Gary Song," a piece of music that demonstrates terrifically well Smith's contention that soul is not a category.

Moving out of rocking verses, Smith jumps into a chorus that's half theater music and half blues plaint -- "If," she sings, in huge slabs of melody, "we start the ball to rolling/ Will it stop or keep going?" The seamless juxtaposition of styles, the passion and the skill of Smith's unexpected country-flecked urbane vocals, and the subtle string arrangement all combine to create the Alice Smith sublime. On other songs, she travels -- with a rare coherence -- from whimsy ("Woodstock") to conviction ("New Religion") to dejected intimacy ("Secrets").

"Half of 'em are my songs," Smith says of her collection, "the other half, I found 'em. Mine sound like me. But I think I'm actually surprised, when people say that they can tell mine from the others. Whatever, I love 'em."

She still isn't sure, though, that with this album she has effected a top-drawer overhaul of the everyday form of the female soul album, which is itself a long tradition of renewing a long tradition. "That's big," she says, looking around her room at the Chateau. "It would be nice if this stuff got to be some other, some new shit. I would be so happy. I think it would be great, if this is where we're going. I would love to be the person to do it. But I almost want to say that I didn't intend that, but that wouldn't be right, not exactly. What I intended to do was to make a record. You know?"

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"Smith could easily be lumped in with expressive chanteuse like Norah Jones and Alicia Keys, but she has a broader palette than either."
BREAKING...10 Artists to Watch 2006
- Rolling Stone Magazine

"Alice Smith slides through the songs on her album, For Lovers, Dreamers and Me in a bluesy voice that can be steamy or sleepy, heated or tart... she's a vivid, unpredictable presence in every one."
- New York Times

"This creative, enjoyable and hard-to-box-in debut from Alice Smith smartly avoids the formulaic trappings of traditional soul, neo-soul and modern R&B, opting instead to inject subtle complexities and flourishes of atmospheric rock and pop."
- Paste Magazine

"Her songs shuffle between styles, instrumentation, rhythms and melodies with an abundance of imagination."
- Interview Magazine

"Alice Smith is going to be huge. Like, win-a-Grammy-and-sell-Alicia-Keys-millions huge. The rapturous roundup of soul, funk and R&B on her upcoming debut, For Lovers, Dreamers & Me is just authentic enough to make her musical cred bulletproof, but just accessible enough to break through the mainstream walls"
- CMJ

"...passionate soundscapes that evoke Fiona Apple's finest material while showcasing her penchant for approaching pop rock with the conviction of a bluesy soul chanteuse."
- Vibe

"A welcome throwback for a mainstream R&B world that often falls back on chirpy jingles and gimmicky ringtones. With a four-octave vocal range and an old-fashioned sense of songcraft, Smith avoids neo-soul clich'es, such as reminiscing too much about the glory years of 70s soul - or, even worse, singing about writing a love song instead of simply performing one."
- NPR

"Her four-octave voice is a fantastic, supple instrument. It sounds as if it has been aging in a sherry cask for the past 15 years, sucking in bits of hip-hop, old soul, contemporary R&B and rock, and allowing those flavors to make it more robust. She can croon, as on the sultry "For Lovers," or belt it out like a Broadway diva."
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Like a movie that departs radically from a familiar plot halfway through, Smith uses pop conventions to lead you to moments of genuine revelation in all the places you never expected."
- the Fader magazine

"This is already one of the best records of the year."
- XLR8R

"Alice is as real and ridiculously talented as they come... [she's] going to be huge."
- CMJ

"It's an excellent record... an impressive debut from an impressive and talented musician."
- AllMusic

"An incredible, genre-defying debut. A definite winner that will go on our shortlist of the year's best albums!"
- Dusty Groove America

"Alice Smith's independent attitude makes for a musical palette that's both imaginative and intriguing"
- Burlington County Times

"[Alice Smith] seamlessly mixes rock and soul into her own and represents the true definition of an artist, who takes chances, rejects categories, and goes with her heart. The result: a refreshing collection of songs that talk to the soul"
- Portland Observer

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