Pamela Means and her "mad-guitar-and-vocal skills" (Time Out New York) have toured throughout the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, selling tens of thousands of her seven independent releases along the way. Means's newest release, Precedent, (2009) elegantly addresses a range of themes from the state of the union to the state of the heart. Curve Magazine calls her "one of the fiercest guitar players and politically-rooted singer-songwriters in the music industry today."

A multi-talented perf...