Singer-Songwriter Sophie Auster to Play the Billboard Lounge at Barclays Center, 12/12

Singer-songwriter Sophie Auster has announced a performance at the Billboard Lounge at Barclays Center, December 12.

"If Tom Waits and Billie Holiday were to have a style child, singer-songwriter Sophie Auster would be it," writes Vogue, describing the unique blend of power and glamour that Auster commands. The Deli likens her music to "a cross between Fiona Apple's righteous rage and Gillian Welch's homespun folk yarns..." While Auster cites these artists as influences for her songwriting, her music is wholly her own. Her latest album, Dogs and Men (June 9, Out Loud Music), has been called "soaring" (W Magazine). The New York Times praises the album's "songs that meld sultry, folksy vocals with soul- (and teeth-) baring lyrics" and recently premiered the video for the album's first single, "Bad Manners."

Sophie Auster just completed a sold-out run of West coast dates supporting Coeur de Pirate and she's currently working on her next album with Jesse Harris, of Norah Jones fame. Additionally, Sophie has a part in the series Mozart in the Jungle with Gael Garcia Bernal, which will premiere in January on Amazon Prime. She'll be performing on December 12 at the Billboard Lounge at Barclays Center. Billboard Lounge offers Brooklyn Nets and New York Islanders premium season ticketholders the opportunity to attend members-only artist showcases and performances in a distinct setting. The show will begin approximately twenty minutes after the Nets v. Clippers game has ended.

While stylistically Auster resembled the progeny of music icons Waits and Holiday, in truth she is the daughter of writers Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt. Yet music has always been her passion, beginning at age 8 when she was a choir soloist. At 18, Auster released her self-titled debut on the French label Naïve. While still attending Sarah Lawrence College, Auster spent her school vacations touring and performing at festivals across Europe and South America, eventually landing her, in 2007, on the cover of Spanish Rolling Stone. She has since appeared in Vogue, New Yorker, Elle, Les InRocks, SPIN, Glamour, Velvet, Paper and was featured as one of W's rising stars.