SHE SPEAKS IN TONGUES

“Kate McCandless samples music as hungrily as Girl Talk, but she doesn’t use a computer. With her band She Speaks in Tongues, the singer and guitarist repurposes well-worn rock and blues classics into new narratives… McCandless unravels threads from the music she loves to knot together her own bizarro-world reimaginings, a process she describes… as “a necessary feminist act…a reclaim of agency.” She sings her hybrids as if they’ve always been hers—and in a way, they always have been…” -Sasha Geffen, Chicago Reader

“KATE IS INCREDIBLE! GO SEE KATE! I don't have the words to fully relay what happened but Kate created the most healing safe cocoon of reiki energy magic I have ever experienced. I was able to feel and release challenging emotions and I feel we accomplished deep healing work for myself and ancestors…my experience was so epic. Thank you Kate for doing this kind of work in the world.” - Amy W., Energy Healing Client, Kansas City, MO

CHICAGO CROWD SURFER/album review DOMESTIKA 2020

CHICAGO CROWD SURFER/interview DOMESTIKA 2020

COME HERE FLOYD/song review MAKE IT RIGHT, DOMESTIKA 2020

CHICAGO READER/best of chicago 2015

HUFFPOST/she speaks in tongues: the band that changed my mind

OLD SCHOOL RECORD REVIEW/ gloria, GUITAR 2014

THE CEREBRAL RIFT/record review 2014

CHICAGO SINGER SONGWRITER PODCAST

CHIRP RADIO/best of 2014