Photos from November 5th House of Blues (Anaheim, CA) Show

Posted on November 6, 2008

Orange County Register has some awesome photos (click “More Photos”) of Zooey, Matt, and Becky Stark at the Anaheim show on November 5th. And check out the review as well, where the Register calls the performance “a positively charming show.” [thanks Miguel!]

She & Him charm the pants off First Avenue [First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN Review]

Posted on August 11, 2008

 

Another article, this one from City Pages, gushing about what we already know — Zooey and Matt rocks. It’s yet another positive review on She & Him’s August 7th performance in Minneapolis.

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward sure are easy to like. Everything about the She & Him duo is charming: their mismatched pronouns; their shy, disarming demeanor; their classic, old fashioned love songs. Within minutes of taking the stage at First Avenue, they had captured the attention (and hearts) of every person in the near-capacity crowd, and the audience hung on their every note and phrase. It was possibly the most soothing, engaging show I have ever seen at a rock club.

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Sweet love songs convincingly honest [Wexner Center - Columbus, OH Review]

Posted on August 11, 2008

There’s another positive show review coming from The Columbus Dispatch on She & Him’s August 4th Wexner Center (Columbus, OH) show. [thanks fabgroovy for the link]

Irony took a vacation last night in the Wexner Center’s Performance Space during a two-hour concert headlined by She & Him.

The band’s mostly acoustic sound casually framed the sweet, pining love songs of actress Zooey Deschanel, who sang them with a winning simplicity and convincing honesty. Hip indie-rock songwriter M. Ward, Deschanel’s co-conspirator and producer of the group’s debut album, masterminded the presentation with a reserved style that set the tone for the set.

Deschanel’s songs, remembrances of old love, yearnings for new and ambivalence over romance lost, were front and center all night. Many began with simple lines with a classic ring: “I was taking a walk when I saw you pass by,” from I Was Made For You; “Cried all night ’til there was nothing more,” from Sentimental Heart.

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Actress Deschanel impressive in rock duo [Barrymore - Madison, WI Review]

Posted on August 9, 2008

There’s a positive review of She & Him’s August 8th performance at the Barrymore in The Capital Times:

It reads like the screenplay for a 1960s B-movie musical aimed at the teen drive-in crowd: A glamorous, young Hollywood actress meets up with a scruffy roots rocker, and the unlikely duo make beautiful music together.

It doesn’t sound like the sort of movie that Zooey Deschanel would agree to star in (although she was in M. Night Shyamalan’s hilariously bad “The Happening,” so who knows?). But she’s living the real-life version with indie rocker M. Ward as the duo She & Him, who together played an utterly charming show at the Barrymore Theatre on Friday night.

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She & Him At The Newport Folk Festival [Live Recording]

Posted on August 3, 2008

NPR Music has the entire She & Him Newport Folk Festival performance at their website here (click “Hear the Full She & Him Concert”). The accompanying article is below:

Technical difficulties didn’t deter M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel from plugging on ahead, even if that meant plugging in an electric guitar instead of an acoustic guitar. And then Newport’s infamous rain came down… hard. But that didn’t stop them either, especially when back-up vocalist and songstress Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond) joined She & Him on stage for her sad country-swing song, “The Garden Rose.” Read more

She & Him serenade Philadelphia [Review]

Posted on July 30, 2008

There’s a review of She & Him’s July 25th Trocadero Theater (Philadelphia) performance at phillyBurbs.com:

When doe-eyed movie star Zooey Deschanel took her place on stage next to esteemed indie-rock collaborator and musician M. Ward at the Trocadero Theater in Philadelphia, it had all the makings of a freshly-fixed peanut butter and jelly sandwich—sugary sweetness, nutty flavor and a healthy dose of unassuming sustenance all rolled into one.

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“Village Voice” Article with Zooey and Scarlett Johansson Album Comparison

Posted on May 12, 2008

Village Voice has an article mentioning Volume One in comparison with actress Scarlett Johansson’s debut album Anywhere I Lay My Head:

Anywhere I Lay My Head is inevitably going to draw comparisons to She & Him’s Volume One, another vanity-project album from a gorgeous indie-film actress. But even if Zooey Deschanel is both a more distinctive and a more technically gifted singer than Johansson, even if her “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from Elf completely destroys Johansson’s “Brass in the Pocket” from Lost in Translation, Volume One strikes me as a much safer, less interesting record. Rather than a weirdo visionary like Sitek, Deschanel made her album alongside the amiable middlebrow indie-folk-popper M. Ward. I like Volume One just fine, but it’s a low-risk, low-reward affair, and it never strives for anything beyond a breezy utilitarian pleasantness. For all its pure goofiness, Anywhere I Lay My Head is a braver and heavier work, a slow dive into honeyed ether. It’s not a masterpiece, but it unfolds like a long, luxuriant, theatrical sigh, and I’ll take that.

Vista Theater Photos and “Filter Magazine” Review

Posted on May 7, 2008

Thanks to tugmoose in the forums for pointing to some excellent photos from the April 29th Vista Theater show and a “90%” review of the April 29th Vista Theater show from Filter Magazine:

Suffocated by the smell of stale popcorn and surrounded by Egyptian décor and cylindrical chandeliers, the Vista Theater in the heart of Silverlake reeked of old Hollywood. A place typically frequented for its discounted movie tickets, the aged cinema lowered its blood-red curtains Monday and Tuesday for a special concert.

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“Prefix Mag” Review of Vista Theater Show

Posted on May 7, 2008

There’s a review of the April 29th Vista Theater show at Prefix Magazine :

She and Him’s relaxed performance at L.A.’s Vista Theatre on April 29 was neatly encapsulated within the performance of their Volume One standout, “Sentimental Heart.” The first half of the song, featuring only Zooey Deschanel’s trickling piano drops and smoky, cracked vocal yearning along with M. Ward’s minimalist, sympathetic guitar ambience, was a sepia haze of achingly fragile and enchanting country balladry.

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“Variety” Review of April 28th Vista Theater Show

Posted on May 1, 2008

Variety has a (pretty positive) review of the Vista Theater show on April 28. [thanks to tugmoose in the forums for the heads-up]:

When most thesps try their hand at warbling, they usually treat live performances like they’re auditioning for the part of “Rock Star No. 1.” More often than not, they display an unconvincing false bravado, a series of poses and attitudes that never quite add up. But not Zooey Deschanel, the winsomely adorable actress who is the She of She & Him (the Him being singer-songwriter and indie-rock utilityman M. Ward). Her Monday-night perf at the Vista Theater was charmingly ingenuous — and she has both a voice and songwriting talent that mark this project as more than an actress on a lark.

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