Lava
2005
From The Ground Up
About This Album
Antigone Rising seemed to, well, rise out of nowhere in the early days of 2005, appearing on VH1 regularly and receiving the honor of being the first new artist given an entry in Starbucks' Hear Music series. Of course, this sudden omnipresence didn't happen overnight. The group had been kicking around since the late '90s, appearing on some shows on the 1998 Lilith Fair tour, and releasing a bunch of self-released records before signing with Lava in 2004. The band had a studio debut, provisionally titled Drama Club, all set to go in 2005 -- as of the first week of May, their bio on their official site concerned the release of Drama Club, which was nowhere on the release schedule at that point -- when the Hear Music deal materialized and the powers that be decided that launching Antigone Rising via a Starbucks-sponsored release was a better move than dumping the major-label debut onto the market. Frankly, it was a smart move, because that Hear Music release, From the Ground Up, is the kind of adult alternative pop that was all the rage in the late '90s and what the Starbucks demographic was likely craving: tasteful, earnest, ambitious, singer/songwriter-oriented alternative folk-pop, equal parts Indigo Girls, Alanis Morissette, and Natalie Merchant, with a touch of the sassy spunk of a Sheryl Crow or a Shelby Lynne.
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