[Photos by Autumn De Wilde]

She’s currently taking on Europe — for the second time in as many months — she’s been all over the U.S. and her third solo LP has barely even started to collect dust. Maria Taylor, who you might remember from her work with Orenda Fink in Azure Ray, calls her album LadyLuck, which in and of itself has proved to be pretty charming thus far — it’s been seen on the Heatseekers Chart, and her video for the single “Cartoons and Forever Plans” has broken 100,000 views. We caught up with her in between legs of her tour, on the day the album hit stores to chat about her crazy schedule, the making of her new album, where she’s been and where she’s going.
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[Photo by Autumn De Wilde]

Her third solo album, LadyLuck, was released yesterday, she just got back from Europe and she’s getting ready to set out on a massive U.S. tour, but Maria Taylor is already thinking of what’s ahead — and it looks like lady luck just may be on the side of Azure Ray fans.
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Orenda Fink of Azure Ray and Art In Manila, and Scalpelist, aka Cedric LeMoyne, of Remy Zero might sound like an odd-couple collaboration, but the two musicians have come together to form O+S. After a long formed friendship that’s been going on for about a decade in Birmingham, AL, O+S is now signed to Saddle Creek Records, and we’ve got two new tracks from their just-released-yesterday (March 24) self-titled debut: “Permanent Scar” and “We Do What We Want To”.
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