Fashionable androgyny isn’t new to the arts, especially music. The ’70s had Bowie and several longhaired pretty boys of glam-rock. The ’80s boasted Annie Lennox and Prince’s dainty coos. And in recent ...

“I do feel like my songwriting is a form of storytelling,” says Chris Pureka. “Words are important to me. That’s a big focus in my songwriting. I don’t know if that’s super common.” Artists like ...

After Pureka received her degree in biology at Wesleyan University, she worked in a microbiology research lab at Smith College, before leaving the science world to focus on her music. In 2001, she ...

Chris Pureka has come a long way from hammering on instruments as a band member in The Sparks, which she now only categorizes into one genre: "terrible." "We were banging around on instruments that we ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chris Pureka has the songs — but not the performance — to make for a great show. Photos by Quetzo Herejk. The b.side lounge in Boulder was packed with ...

Often times when music journalists are handed a copy of some artist's brand new CD and told to review it, they listen to it once and write a quick, un-thorough review. Well, after sitting down and ...

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The Iron Horse welcomed home singer-songwriter Chris Pureka over the weekend, who seemed gracious and grateful to be playing a familar room. From the first throaty chorus, Pureka had the entire ...

On Chris Pureka's earthy sophomore album there's a sense her musical stylings haven't evolved much. While Pureka's feet stay planted in folksy, acoustic guitar-driven ditties, it's her husky voice ...

Chris Pureka brings her New England eye and voice to the Folkus Project series on Friday. “She is such a gifted guitar player and singer that you have to listen to each song twice,” writes a reviewer ...

On Chris Pureka’s new album, How I Learned to See in the Dark (out now), you’ll notice some pretty gloomy song titles—“Wrecking Ball,” “Shipwreck,” “Hangman.” The Massachusetts-based singer/songwriter ...