Jordan Caress is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter. I love that town, and I love all the tattooed young women who work at Hatch Show Print Shop. Jordan looks like the type who might work there. The Tennessean describes her music as "a beautifully hazy batch of spaced-out indie folk." I like it.
Lyndell Montgomery is Canadian. Watch out for those Canadians.
They're all, "hey, I'm chill" but, in fact, almost every Candadian I've met has been a bit of a head case. (Am I right? Can you allow me that one unfair generalization?) Fortunately, Lyndell Montgomery has put her issues to good use. I particularly like the song "Easy." She is a pleasure to look at with her hipster hair, broad shoulders, tattoos, and overall modern butch aesthetic. But I find one detail particularly interesting: Her profile image on her myspace page is a photo of her boyish self applying eyeliner. I assume the juxtaposition is deliberate. She seems interested in messing with gender roles. On her website she has a video exploring butch/femme identity (click "So the Story Goes") In another video, she wore a black shirt, a man's vest, and a lovely string of pearls wrapped rakishly around her tattooed wrist. And, lastly, I don't know what the deal is with these two (btw, I think one of them works out at my gym), but this video is beautiful and adorable.
