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Maggie Osterberg is an American guitar player, keyboardist , and singer-songwriter . Her first album Bent, Not Broken , was released in July, 2005, and is available at the iTunes Music Store . Her work ranges from electronica and avant-garde to alt-rock , indie pop , and psychedelia .
Maggie was born in Omaha, Nebraska , and now lives in Lincoln , after a number of years in the Twin Cities and San Francisco . Maggie attended Grinnell College , Kearny State College , and Minneapolis College of Art and Design , and holds a bachelor's degree in Theatre from Hamline University .
Fans have compared her guitar playing to Nels Cline and Robert Quine , with an overall musical style that encompasses the world of the Velvet Underground , Television , Talking Heads , and kraut-rockers Can . Maggie is a big fan of Frank Zappa , Neil Young , and Tom Waits .
When she's not making or listening to music, Maggie enjoys photography , reading , walking , and cats . Many of her photos can be found on Flickr , and her recent reading includes Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma , Bill Buford's Heat , and Roger Welsch's My Nebraska . Among her recommendations for writing on music are Simon Reynolds' Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 , Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World , and Jim DeRogatis' Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips .