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| Watch Alice Smith on Craig Ferguson! | |
 Click here to watch Alice's performance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson! | |
| Watch Alice perform "Dream" on Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel | |
| Click on the images below to watch Alice perform "Dream" on Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel live Alice on Ellen  Alice on Jimmy Kimmel  | |
| Alice Smith on Tour! | |
| Check out the tour page for new Alice tour dates! | |
| Check out Alice's Top Albums on MySpace! | |
| Click here to discover Alice's Top 5 album picks! | |
| 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! | |
| Check out this cool article about Alice on AllHipHop.com! | |
| Alice in Glamour Magazine! | |
 Check out Alice in January's Glamour Magazine as one of the "8 Things You'll Love This Month" | |
| Alice Performs live at Borders in NYC! | |
 Alice will be performing live at Borders in NYC: Borders / Columbus Circle - 11/28 at 7 p.m. | |
| New Alice Videos! | |
| Interview for REELBLACK TV ALICE performs "DREAM" at the Tin Angel in Philly | |
| ALICE SMITH HITS THE ROAD AGAIN IN SUPPORT OF THE RELEASE OF 'FOR LOVERS, DREAMERS & ME' With Alice's newly mixed and mastered CD due in stores October 30, 2007, and the first single 'New Religion' out already, Alice and her band will hit the road again for an East coast run that will include the following dates: Tues Oct 30 Arlington, VA Iota Club & Cafe Show 8:30pm $15 *No Advance sales Ages 21+ Wed Oct 31 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live w/Special guests! http://tickets.worldcafelive.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=2148 Show 9:00pm $15 adv/ $17 day of All Ages Fri Nov 02 Annapolis, MD Rams Head Tavern On Stage Presented by WRNR 103.1 FM www.ramsheadonstage.com Box office 410-268-4545 Show 8:00pm $17.50 Ages 21+ / Reserved seating Tue Nov 06 New York, NY Mercury Lounge www.ticketmaster.com (On sale Oct. 5th) Show 7:00pm $15 Ages 21+ Check back for additional dates. | |
| Alice Currently Featured In | |
| ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY The 10 Most Exciting Artists Right Now and SPIN - October Issue on stands now BREAKOUT ARTIST | |
| 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... | |
| Alice Smith's Album For Lovers, Dreamers and Me is in stores now - click here to order from amazon.com - You can also download the album from: iTunes | Rhapsody | |
| Alice is a Clear Channel NEW! Artist | |
| Alice is being featured in the Clear Channel NEW! program. Click here to see the feature. | |
| Watch An Interview with Alice Smith! | |
| Click here to watch the video interview. | |
BIO
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?"
Increasingly, everybody does and everybody will.
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?"
Increasingly, everybody does and everybody will.
MUSIC
Alice Smith
For Lovers, Dreamers and Me
In stores now
You can download the album from: iTunes | Rhapsody
1. Dream
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
2. Woodstock
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
3. Gary Song
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
4. New Religion
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
5. Do I
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
6. Fake Is The New Real
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
7. Desert Song
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
8. Know That I...
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
9. Secrets
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
10. Love Endeavor
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
Alice Smith
For Lovers, Dreamers and Me
In stores now
You can download the album from: iTunes | Rhapsody
1. Dream
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
2. Woodstock
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
3. Gary Song
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
4. New Religion
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
5. Do I
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
6. Fake Is The New Real
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
7. Desert Song
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
8. Know That I...
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
9. Secrets
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
10. Love Endeavor
(listen: real | quicktime | windows media: lo - hi)
TOUR
Alice will be playing the following shows:
03/03/2008 07:00 PM - Paradise Lounge
967 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
US
Cost:$12
Click here to purchase tickets online!
03/05/2008 08:00 PM - Ram's Head on Stage
33 West St.
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
US
Cost:$21
21+
Click here to purchase tickets online!
03/06/2008 08:30 PM - Tin Angel
20 South Second St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
US
Cost:$20
(215) 928-0978 or purchase tickets online here!
03/07/2008 09:00 PM - Highline Ballroom
431 West 16th St.
New York, New York 10011
US
Cost:$15 adv. $17 door
Door at 7pm. To purchase tickets call (212) 414-5994 or purchase online here!
03/09/2008 09:45 PM - Black Cat
1811 14th St. NW
WASHINGTON, Washington DC 20009
US
Cost:$15
8pm Door
To purchase tickets call 202-397-SEAT or purchase online here!
03/11/2008 09:30 PM - The Evening Muse
3227 N. Davidson St.
Charlotte, North Carolina 28205
US
Cost: $15
Door 8pm
03/12/2008 08:00 PM - Vinyl
1374 W. Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
US
Cost: $10
Door 8:00pm
(404)885-1365
03/14/2008 11:30 PM - Casbah
2501 Kettner Blvd.
San Diego, California 92101
US
Cost: $15
21+ Door 8:30pm
(619) 232-4355
03/15/2008 08:00 PM - Hotel Café
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, California 90028
US
Cost: $15
21+
03/17/2008 10:00 PM - Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th St.
San Francisco, California 94107
US
Cost: $14
7:30pm Door
(415) 621-4455
03/19/2008 08:00 PM - Doug Fir Lounge
830 East Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97214
US
Cost: $13
7:00 PM Door
03/20/2008 07:30 PM - Triple Door
216 Union St.
Seattle, Washington 98181
US
Cost: $17
530 PM Door
03/21/2008 The Moore Theatre
Seattle, Washington
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/27/2008 The Independent
San Francisco, CA
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/28/2008 Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/29/2008 Marquee Theatre
Tempe, AZ
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/31/2008 House of Blues
San Diego, CA
Opening for Citizen Cope
04/03/2008 Ogden Theatre
Denver, CO
Opening for Citizen Cope
Alice will be playing the following shows:
03/03/2008 07:00 PM - Paradise Lounge
967 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
US
Cost:$12
Click here to purchase tickets online!
03/05/2008 08:00 PM - Ram's Head on Stage
33 West St.
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
US
Cost:$21
21+
Click here to purchase tickets online!
03/06/2008 08:30 PM - Tin Angel
20 South Second St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
US
Cost:$20
(215) 928-0978 or purchase tickets online here!
03/07/2008 09:00 PM - Highline Ballroom
431 West 16th St.
New York, New York 10011
US
Cost:$15 adv. $17 door
Door at 7pm. To purchase tickets call (212) 414-5994 or purchase online here!
03/09/2008 09:45 PM - Black Cat
1811 14th St. NW
WASHINGTON, Washington DC 20009
US
Cost:$15
8pm Door
To purchase tickets call 202-397-SEAT or purchase online here!
03/11/2008 09:30 PM - The Evening Muse
3227 N. Davidson St.
Charlotte, North Carolina 28205
US
Cost: $15
Door 8pm
03/12/2008 08:00 PM - Vinyl
1374 W. Peachtree St.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
US
Cost: $10
Door 8:00pm
(404)885-1365
03/14/2008 11:30 PM - Casbah
2501 Kettner Blvd.
San Diego, California 92101
US
Cost: $15
21+ Door 8:30pm
(619) 232-4355
03/15/2008 08:00 PM - Hotel Café
1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, California 90028
US
Cost: $15
21+
03/17/2008 10:00 PM - Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th St.
San Francisco, California 94107
US
Cost: $14
7:30pm Door
(415) 621-4455
03/19/2008 08:00 PM - Doug Fir Lounge
830 East Burnside
Portland, Oregon 97214
US
Cost: $13
7:00 PM Door
03/20/2008 07:30 PM - Triple Door
216 Union St.
Seattle, Washington 98181
US
Cost: $17
530 PM Door
03/21/2008 The Moore Theatre
Seattle, Washington
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/27/2008 The Independent
San Francisco, CA
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/28/2008 Wiltern Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/29/2008 Marquee Theatre
Tempe, AZ
Opening for Citizen Cope
03/31/2008 House of Blues
San Diego, CA
Opening for Citizen Cope
04/03/2008 Ogden Theatre
Denver, CO
Opening for Citizen Cope
PRESS
"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
"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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