Country-noir singer Jesse Sykes looks like Lara Flynn Boyle and sounds like a cross between Marianne Faithful and Adam Sandler’s Operaman. Her smoky, strained, eerily spectral voice is seemingly ...

The sound of Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter hits like a cold front on the first day of winter. As guitarist Phil Wandscher’s blustery leads swirl through the desolate streets, echoing off the brick ...

Jesse Sykes is an artist who’s inclined to share her creative stirrings with fans and friends. On her personal Facebook page, she has posted an eight-minute film snippet backed with a song, “My Gentle ...

Since releasing 2007's Like Love Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul, Jesse Sykes has left Barsuk Records, her longtime label, left Seattle, her longtime home; left Sweet Hereafter guitarist Phil ...

Some couples can barely stand the stress of going grocery shopping together. So imagine the potency of a relationship like Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher, a musical couple who do almost everything ...

When Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher are in the same room, something special happens. The duo is a balancing act of ferocity and fragility. Wandscher’s signature style has been the driving force behind ...

In the early spring months of 1997, Ryan Adams and Phil Wandscher22 and 26, respectivelyhad an appointment in Los Angeles. A week earlier, they had finished the bulk of the second album by their band, ...

“Well, yesterday’s news is what I have been reading/ See you at the Comet and I end up needing.” Ryan Adams and Phil Wandscher, “Yesterday’s News” In the late ’90s, the Comet Lounge at 3003 ...

Though tonight s bill is missing the previously scheduled headliner, Gerald Collier, Seattle comes out ahead, for it s the mystical, magical Jesse Sykes and bandmate Phil Wandscher who are stepping up ...

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Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter play BelloBar in Dublin on 24 April in support of their album, Forever, I've Been Being Born. We asked Jesse the BIG questions . . . Jesse and guitarist Phil ...