Carried away by the music, singer Terra Lopez of Rituals of Mine leapt off the stage while drummer Adam Pierce held down the beat. She began howling into the microphone, a caterwaul that sounded like pain but also catharsis. As her voice grew and grew, she pulled the microphone farther from her mouth until, to the astonishment of all around her, she was soaring over the drums, filling all of Cafe Nine with just the power of her voice. ... read the rest in the New Haven Independent.
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