Next of Kin

One Liner: Three local singer-songwriters forming into a harmony-soaked Voltron
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but kind of an Indie Americana?
Home: Austin!

Poster Position: Third Quarter - Line 18
Day: Saturday
Weekend One Only.

Tito's Tent at 1:00.

Thoughts:  Just from the cover photo, I am guessing this is a pack of sisters making these sparkling harmonies.  Strangely enough, the Next of Kin band with a Wikipedia entry is a pop rock band from Braintree, Essex, England, composed of three brothers.  Makes me wonder if I have the right one that I am listening to right now.  Hmmm... ah, no, wait.  Their Wikipedia says they renamed themselves Essex County in 2020 and now record alt country music.  Which is ... intriguing...

Back to these ladies.  They are super not related at all!  I feel like I got ripped off!  KUTX says that they are Lili Hickman, Madison Baker, and Caelin (which appears to be her only name?).  Hickman is the daughter of the excellent Sarah Hickman, and was in Flora & Fawna (which was at ACL in 2022).  Madison grew up in Canton, Texas (out in between Dallas and Tyler) but got to Austin to go to UT and buried her musical talent until after she graduated.  Caelin says she came out of the womb performing and started her first rock band at 13 years old.  She claims to have been touring Belmont University in Nashville when Jimmy Lafave called her and begged her to come to Austin instead.

Only five songs, so sort of a difficult catalog to really go in depth with, but you can tell that they love harmonies.  "Jekyll & Hyde" was their first project and it has their most streams with 109k.

You can't help but think of other lady trios with great voices and harmonies - Boygenius being the easy, recent comp, although these ladies definitely lean more towards country than pure indie rock.  Great tune.

In addition to the other band that had previously used this name, when you search for Next of Kin on YouTube you get some great stuff.  British TV show, NIgerian movie, an Alvvays song.  Did you know Patrick Swayze was in a movie from 1989?  Well, now you can see how exciting that could be.

The Sawyze as Detective Truman Gates!  Throwing suckers through windows in the City!  Liam Neeson!  Freaking crossbows!  Helen Hunt!  That guy who was Jayne Cobb in Firefly!  The freaking one-armed man from the Fugitive!  How was this not the biggest movie on 1989?  Wait, what won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year.  Driving Miss Daisy?  Are you shitting me!?!

Anyway, second-most streamed tune is called "Homemaker" with 62k streams.

More killer harmonies.  Yeah, I think these ladies are definitely talented and worth going to see do their thing.  I assume they'll have more songs by then, or we'll be getting a lot of covers!