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While Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, the hipster heartthrobs of indie syth-pop act MGMT (also playing Santa Cruz this month), were out chasing tail in the ivied halls of Wesleyan University, folk princess Chris Pureka was in her dorm room writing melancholy ballads and not eating enough. She struggled through, however, and the results are nothing short of haunting. Like Dolores O’Riordan of the Cranberries at her gloomiest, Pureka’s voice takes white-knuckled grips of the heartstrings and yanks. Typically set against her skillful guitar strums and a lone fiddle or cello, it’s music you’ll need a pocketful of Kleenex for. - Curtis Cartier sanjose.com
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