Best New Bands » Jesca Hoop http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Album Review: Jesca Hoop, The House That Jack Built http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-jesca-hoop-the-house-that-jack-built/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/album-review-jesca-hoop-the-house-that-jack-built/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:16:18 +0000 Though this is her third album, Jesca Hoop is still a relative unknown to many music listeners. What is known, and should who aren’t familiar should know, is that Hoop has hobnobbed with some of the biggest names in the biz. She’s cut her teeth by working with the iconic Tom Waits (for whose kids

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