Laura David

3 days ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Laura David

Nobody can really pinpoint bovine excision. The phenomenon refers to the suspicious mutilation of cattle that occurs in an unusual and bloodless way. People got on to it – supposedly – after farmers in the 1960s and 1970s found their cows dead, completely drained of blood, and cut up with surgical precision. There have been cases upon cases over the years, evidence continuing to pile up. Believers try to find patterns between the cases, using them as evidence of the otherworldly.

2 weeks ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Laura David

She’d relocated to London from L.A. with the man who was then her long-term boyfriend and key creative partner. But after a visit back to the states gone awry, her entire world order shifted. With no notice, she was left high and dry, mid-pandemic, in a city she barely knew, a continent away from her family and friends. It all seemed, as it would to most people, insurmountable. You wouldn’t know it now.

2 weeks ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Laura David

There are certain, special times when a record meets the moment in an urgent, magnetic way. Send a Prayer My Way, from songwriters Julien Baker and Mackenzie Scott – better known as Torres – is one of those albums. The product of a decade of friendship, it’s a triumphant foray into country from two beloved, iconic songwriters. Facing a world that feels more sinister and foreboding by the day, the album is a much-needed antidote, or, to borrow a phrase from the record, a flower in the desert.

1 month ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Laura David

Music – as Mae Martin has learned – is an entirely different enterprise. So much of connecting with an audience in music isn’t about knee-jerk reactions but about the space in between. Getting comfortable with that shift can be weird, but in the end, as Martin tells me, it pays off in spades. "The piano Elliott Smith played on 'Baby Britain' and on that album [XO] is at Largo, a historic venue at L.A. that I do a monthly show at.

1 month ago | thelineofbestfit.com | Laura David

Our British House Party, hosted on 6 March at Parkside Lounge from 10pm-1:30am, will bring together five of the UK’s exciting acts on the rise. “(Lio Kanine) and I are both huge Britpop fans and fans of Oasis, Blur, Stone Roses, Charlatas, etc.