Where from: New Paltz, N.Y. Website: http://dietcig.bandcamp.com/. Local show: 9:30 p.m., April 16; Bottom of the Hill, S.F.; $10-$12; www.bottomofthehill.com. Listen to: “Harvard,” “Scene Sick”. The skinny: Diet Cig is truly a novice effort for singer-songwriter Alex Luciano. She first played electric guitar only two months before recording a 2015 EP that won her attention from critics and a spot at this year’s SXSW. The lyrics insightfully reflect the same kind of youthful inexperience. In “Breathless” Luciano talks about getting her first apartment (“I don’t have any kitchenware, but I can walk around in my underwear”) and in “Harvard,” she rips an ex-boyfriend who leaves her for an Ivy League girl. The music is effervescent and irresistible, and in concert, Luciano acts it out, kicking, twirling and dancing across the stage, anchored only by the rigorous drumming of Noah Bowman. With only seven songs released to date, Diet Cig will be filling out its upcoming shows with songs from its soon-to-be-released debut full-length album.
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Our daughter is in her final year of college in Northern California. She’s living in a house with 15 others. Many of them are environmental science or sustainable agriculture majors. They grow vegetables in their front yard and have a chicken coop. Officially, it’s called the Turtle House, but I call it the Commune. We visited her a couple weeks ago on the day a few of her housemates slaughtered a rooster. Apparently, they’re not all vegetarians as one might have suspected. I wonder if they know about e. coli. Nothing to worry about there, either.
