Kate Tucker

Kate Tucker is a Nashville-based songwriter, singer, and guitarist most known for her work with Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden, the indie rock/dream pop band from Seattle, Washington. KT+SOS just released a new visual album, The Shape The Color The Feel, that includes thirteen music videos, two short films, and a forthcoming documentary.

Kate Tucker’s solo work ventures from the shimmering indie pop of KT+SOS to explore a deep and emotive americana-influenced rock. She has released one solo album White Horses (2010), and two EPs, Ghost of Something New (2011) and Eros Turannos (2005). Her sound reflects shades of Daughter, Neko Case, Cat Power, and Mazzy Star with occasional forays into a land inhabited by the Cocteau Twins, Blonde Redhead and David Lynch.

Growing up in a family of truck drivers, Kate Tucker became acquainted with the American road from an early age. A sense of place, space, home, and the vast unknown continues to inform her work in both mood and lyric. Perhaps this frequent travel set in motion what would become her musical journey, cutting her teeth in Cleveland rock clubs, hopping across the pond to busk the streets of Paris, setting off for Seattle to start a band, only to leave town again for NYC and end up in Nashville, Tennessee.

In the midst of this, she’s built a strong catalog of work and garnered a devoted fan base grassroots style, releasing everything on her own independent label, Red Valise Recordings. Her songs have charted both college and commercial radio, landing spots on numerous TV shows, indie films, and Starbucks compilations.

In 2013, the full-length feature film Everything Went Down hit the festival circuit, garnering Tucker four “Best Score” awards for the soundtrack she wrote and placing her on stage at several festivals, including Sundance, Stonybrook and Toronto Intl Film Festival, where in addition to performing music, she has led panels on the intersection of film and music. The film also marks her acting debut as she holds a lead role.

Last year, Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden launched what Huffington Post called an “admirably ambitious” Kickstarter project, raising over $21,000 to make The Shape The Color The Feel, a full length album to be released on vinyl and CD, with thirteen music videos, three short films, and a documentary. As the videos continue to premiere on the likes of Esquire, Huffington Post and Paste, Tucker and filmmaker Miriam Bennett are wrapping up the documentary featuring the creative community emerging out of the project.

"We first heard Kate Tucker at last January's Sundance Film Festival, and we've been smitten with the Nashville-based singer ever since. Equal parts folk and dreamy pop, Tucker's soft voice evokes the kind of music that girl next door would listen to..."
-- Esquire

"Tucker, who could be mistaken for a hipper, younger Neko Case, has the kind of charm and charisma onstage that seasoned performers dream of. On top of that she’s got a powerful voice that’s as bittersweet as it it is silky smooth. " -- Seattle Times