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About Me

Michael Gira says, "Larkin is a magic woman. She lives in the mountains in north Georgia. She collects bones, smooth stones, and she casts spells. She worships the moon. She is very beautiful, and her voice is like the passionate cry of a beast heard echoing across the mountains just after a tremendous thunder storm, when the air is alive with electricity. I don't consider her folk though - she is pre folk, even pre- music. She is the sound of the eternal mother and the wrath of all women. She goes barefoot everywhere, and her feet are leathery and filthy. She wears jewels, glitter, and glistening insects in her hair. She's great! We're doing a record together soon for YGR. " Young God RecordsLarkin Grimm was born in Memphis, Tennessee four years after Elvis died. Her parents were members of a community of energy healers called The Holy Order of MANS. When this cult disbanded, the Grimm family moved to the Appalachian Mountains so that Larkin's father could devote himself to the practice of learning old time fiddle tunes and her Mother could carry on her mission of bringing light to the world through singing hippie values to the children of her hillbilly friends. It was a sweet existence. The water was pure. The air was clean. The food was delicious. There was a spirit of oneness in that Appalachian valley, but soon the exhaust and consumption of the nearby cities began to creep up into the mountains and Larkin, nearly a grown woman, took off with bitterness and anger in her heart trying to find the source of this pollution, to search and destroy. She charmed her way into elite institutions of higher learning - Yale, Harvard, and Brown - and she was mega grossed out by the "education" they were selling. So she hitchhiked across Alaska, staring down bears and grizzly old men, she ducked in and out of communes and cults of many kinds, she sang songs to hipsters in fashionable cities, she spent days locked in mental institutions and in jail cells, fell in and out of love, in and out of consciousness, in and out of sobriety and society, just searching for the answers. And every time she thought she knew the answer, she wrote a song about it, and sang the song until she realized she didn't really know. And Larkin is somewhere searching still, and if you believe in her, someday soon she will find the answer and sing it for you. !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/2/2006
Band Website: Larkin Grimm" Larkin Grimm
Band Members: There is a lazy band of loose-limbed artists, bohemians, actors, perverts and degenerates who accompany Larkin and lend her tiny pieces of their soul for the greater good of the music:Orion Rigel Domisse: vocals, banjo, and uke.Brian Carpenter: vocals, accordion, harmonium, and trumpet.Jordan Voelker: Vocals, viola.Sophia Dixon: voice and fountain pen.Antonia Dixon: voice and paintbrush.Cassie Kauffman: voice and scholarly wisdom.Tom Van Buskirk: percussion, understanding.Micah Blue Smaldone: guitar genius, bass master.Caleb Mulkerin: guitar, banjo and punk conscience.Colleen Kinsella: voice, accordion, percussion earth mama.Chriss Sutherland: voice, bass, ferocious magic.Lara Polangco: rainbow family singer-songwriter.Haley O'Connor: den mother.Michael Gira: trusted producer, magnet of darkness, beloved gothfather.
Influences: The futility of trying to control the uncontrollable.
Sounds Like: Nobody Else
Record Label: YOUNG GOD
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A move to NYC

The Universe is playing crazy tricks on me!On the way to NYC to play a benefit show for the Stairwell Gallery, my little black Honda broke down, the engine cracked, and I got stranded. Almost immedia...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:15:00 PST

Springtime Shows

Ah! Finally the sun is shining and I am coming out of hibernation and receiving blood flow to the brain! I'm playing some shows and looking for shows, too, so if you are in the Northeast or Midwest,...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:53:00 PST

Peace on Earth

Yesterday we got a thick and fluffy and sparkly bunch of snow dumped on us where I am, in the secret winter land hideout of my producer and his wife Siobhan, who has got to be one of the ten most beau...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:47:00 PST

event: Larkin Grimm/Vuk/Viking Moses at Union Pool

Hosted By: Union PoolWhen: Thursday Jan 31, 2008 at 8:00 PMWhere: Union Pool484 Union AveBrooklyn, New York|33 11211United StatesDescription:Union Pool Click Here To View EventI love these people I am...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 07:02:00 PST

Frida Hyvonen´s Swedish Christmas

Peace on earth and good will to women.I spent the winter solstice and Christmas holiday with Swedish Pop Star Frida Hyvonen, who is a totally wild awesome and generous lady. We got all dolled up like...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:59:00 PST

Barcelona record reviews

Hello, depressing winter people! Is the darkness getting to you, yet? It was getting to me for sure, but then I arrived in the Barcelona sunshine and forgot all my troubles. The future is looking e...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:23:00 PST

MOTORCYCLE TOUR with Corndawg

Crazy news:Matthew and the Arrogant Sea, who were planning on driving me around the country in their van, had car trouble down in Texas and are not going to be able to join me. THe silver lining is, ...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:16:00 PST

Leiden Machine Gun Sugardaddy

Okay Okay, So hello from the Netherlands and everything. I hope you are having a good winter.Last night I played with an excellent band called Soccer Committee in a Squat by the Leiden trainstation. ...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:38:00 PST

The misadventures of Nicky Pellicula

Ciao ciao everybody. I am in Italy and having a crazy time. I really think somebody hexed my tour because it has been the most difficult time I've ever had traveling. Rainclouds follow me ...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:23:00 PST

Live Radio Broadcast Sunday Oct 7 on WNYC

Dear everybody who can't make it to see me in person,I'm playing a show at 7pm this Sunday at Joe's Pub that will be a live radio broadcast for David Garland's "Spinning on Air" on WNYC. You can stre...
Posted by Larkin Grimm on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:27:00 PST