NYC Scene Report – Avery Friedman, Lily Konigsberg, & Liam Creamer

This week’s NYC Scene Report features Avery Friedman on the move, Lily Konigsberg feeling like a “Free Byrd,” and Liam Creamer tossing out his “Bucket List.”

* Singer-songwriter Avery Friedman is making moves. Not only is she about to hit the road for an international tour that will run from October 31st through November 15th, she also recently released a new single titled “You Move.”

“You Move,” Friedman said in a statement, “is about savoring the unexpected fruits that reveal themselves amid times of uprootedness.”

She continued, adding, “It is a song about putting trust in the glimmer of new love, and carefully sowing the seeds for it to sustain. Both thematically, and sonically, it’s about searching, surrendering, and allowing yourself to relish.”

Relish is good, but check out the video for “You Move,” which features some amazing tomatoes.

* After a nearly five year hiatus, Lily Konigsberg is back, and feeling a new kind of freedom with her recently released single, “Free Byrd.”

“Free Byrd” has actually been waiting for flight for quite some time, as Konigsberg explained in a statement that it was written nearly four years ago while she was hanging out in Central Park. “I played it for my friend Greta that same day. When I finished, this high school girl sitting nearby turned around, and said, ‘Is that a real song?’ I said, ‘Yes, but I just wrote it.’”

We may be well into the fall season right now, but with Konigsberg’s sweet vocals, and the warm feel of the music of “Free Byrd,” for three minutes it almost feels like summer again.

* Liam Creamer, who previously recorded under the name Ken Park, has a “Bucket List,” but he’s throwing it out.

“A bucket list is a paradox the moment you write it down,” he sings on his latest single, titled “Bucket List,” which was written in a singular 20-minute creative burst.

Discussing the song in a statement, he said, “I wrote this to remind myself of what’s most important – to capture the feeling in the moment.”

An indie folk song that reminds us that what we’re doing in the present has meaning, don’t put “Bucket List” on your bucket list, give it a play right now.

For more of the best of NYC’s indie music scene, come back next Wednesday, and check out the archives for previous columns.