Most of Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles' musical growth has happened with the public eye already on them. The Twin Cities sextet surged into the local spotlight while barely out of their teens, and topped City Pages' 2008 Picked to Click poll within mere months of their formation. Their plucky ukulele-led folk-pop formula showed promise on three rapidly released albums, but the pace left little time for developing engaging live tunes into a real-deal record. When the time came for Michelle and Co. to record the songs that would... More >>>