Photography by Dane McCrary
If you're really feeling Maggie Rogers, appreciate Daughter, and admire folk/indie vocalists, let us introduce you to Madison Price, or rather, Sister Wizzard.
Price, who began performing around the St. Louis area in 2016, grew up in a family of musicians and has always loved writing music. But she says if it weren’t for her friends in the local folk and indie music community, her music career might have never existed.
“I feel like I probably would have never played out in St. Louis if it weren’t for meeting that group of folk singers who were really community-based. They would pass the guitar around and call you out over the mic to come up and play,” she says. “The only reason I feel like I’m doing this is because of those amazing people in St. Louis that said they wanted to hear it and cheered me on.”
Next, Price will release her first album, Page of Mirrors, on August 3, with a show at the Heavy Anchor alongside three local performers: Bounce House, Bucko Toby, and The Free Years. The album is a mix of classic doo-wop and modern electronic pop, an ode to some of her biggest influences: pop music and the performers of the 1950s, like Nancy Sinatra and the Beach Boys. Another huge influence? Her friend Tom Pini, who Price says "has taken all of the empty space that I had no idea how to fill and he always knows exactly what to do with it" as he helped produce Page of Mirrors while working with his own band, Drangus.
“I just love that big wall of sound that that generation coined, and I love all the songs that just make you feel like you’re in love,” she says. "Then I mashed that in this album with a sort of MGMT/Radiohead/Animal Collective kind of sound. I really wanted to marry what I love about current music with what I love about older music.”
As of August 3, you can find Sister Wizzard’s album Page of Mirrors on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. The show at the Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Avenue, begins at 9 p.m. and is free for the bar side and $10 for the venue side.
