Paper City and From Cities to Oceans

PAPER CITY
SELF-TITLED
MOEDOG MUSIC

Marisa Predisik changes stage names like a college freshman changes his sheets—about once a year, or so it would seem. Having recorded previously as Moedog Darling and Mareesa (as well as Vac Bag, her alter-ego side-project), Predisik returns now with Paper City, her most complete and successful [...]

Moedog Darling sings the holidays for the last time, kind of

Each year around this time, Long Beach’s acoustic sweetheart Moedog Darling—a.k.a. Marisa Predisik, whose velvety voice I compared one year ago to “pulling on a pair of black tights over freshly-shaven legs”—mails out a free holiday mix, stamp-and-envelope style, to family, friends and fans, but [...]

So cute and so sad! Check out Moedog Darling’s “For Me, For Us, For You,” available for listening on her MySpace page. The playful (and addictive) ditty is about ghost town bookstores and libraries under siege. Sound familiar? Moedog is one of Long Beach’s finest—and not just because she can make you want to show [...]

Tiny blog to alert goodbye for E. Village’s Broadlind Cafe, where I saw Year Zero and Moedog Darling and in the Blue Nile days Blackbird and the Technicali guys grabbing coffee plus Will from Jah Fellowship, too. They never really lifted off as a venue but the potential seemed just about there (especially after some [...]

@ BROADLIND CAFE
DEC 8

PHOTO by LONNIE NGUYEN
Rainy Saturday ArtWalk at Broadlind Cafe: There’s adorable Abraham Lincoln art on the wall and coffee brewing behind the counter and, before us, Moedog Darling (aka Marisa Predisik) just a girl with a guitar—or, on some songs, ukulele—and a soft/sweet good-time voice. “Velvety” comes to mind, and I almost [...]