» When: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday (doors at 8 p.m.) » Info: $12 in advance, $14 day of show; 202-388-7625; rockandrollhoteldc.com You really can go home again.SClB Just ask Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor, ...

Azure Ray seemed perched on a precipice while singing "The Drinks We Drank Last Night" on the Troubadour stage. In the song, the band conjures up the sound of that up-all-night moment when you're not ...

“Hey, look how low I’ve sunk/Don’t ask me to rise,” so pled Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink of Azure Ray twenty years ago on the song “Rise,” one of the many whispery weepers found on their superb, ...

The work of Azure Ray members Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink (the band broke up in 2004 but reunited last year) is often ethereal and breezy, but the duo’s tracks are never fully stripped-down: With ...

It can take years, if not decades, for the saddest songs to reveal themselves as such. The symphonies of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Type O Negative’s thundering doom, the cracked and withering voice ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Before forming the dream pop duo Azure Ray in 2001, musicians Maria ...

In 2001, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor quietly released a brilliant indie-folk album that would go on to influence some of the biggest names in music history. Since 2001, Fink and Taylor have stayed ...