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Press Archives
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Lisa Germano: Happiness
Compared to Germano's self-financed debut, On the Way Down From the Moon Palace, Happiness is a more cohesive and evenly listenable work, but with all the experimental…
Lisa Germano’s “A Psychopath” is an Arrangement of Real-Life Horror
Lisa Germano, in general, doesn’t make music I’d call “scary.” It’s often dark, and she has a particular knack for capturing an eerie atmosphere, but her 1994 album Geek…
Lisa Germano: On the Way Down From the Moon Palace
So this album has been reprinted twice, which leaves one wondering, what's so special about it?
Remembering How to Feel
An accomplished singer-multi-instrumentalist first spotlighted as a member of John Mellencamp's touring band in the late '80s and early '90s, Lisa Germano has recorded and…
Lisa Germano’s Chamber Pop Ponders the Void
While Germano wasn’t exactly obsessed with death while writing her latest album, last year’s In the Maybe World , the inevitability of it was certainly on her mind. What…
Hard Luck, Red Wine, and Loneliness
It's not surprising to learn that as a child, Lisa Germano delighted in self-inflicted pain. In some ways, she's never stopped picking her open wounds.
Pop Therapy
How music kept Lisa Germano off the ledge.
Analyzing Lisa
When Lisa Germano was invited to play in John Mellencamp's band in 1987, she had the chops – but not the coping skills for what she knew she'd encounter touring with a…
Lisa Germano: The Pursuit of Happiness
"I've never been a good player," insists rockin' fiddler Lisa Germano. "I can't come up with hot licks and jam. I have to write my parts."
Lisa Germano: Magic Neighbor
Soft puzzling pensive pop