Long Island City's popular LIC Bar has developed a reputation among locals for providing an intimate forum for the borough's up-and-coming artists, writers and performers. Mondays at the LIC Bar have been known for having a regularly occurring slate of musicians, singers and songwriters – and with the assistance of both GoGirlsMusic.com and Astoria Music and Arts, the LIC Bar has been particularly friendly to a strong, talented and very beautiful roster of locally-based independent woman musicians. The recent Queens of Queens show on December 1st, brought out a collection of talented regulars and a new set of talented women playing the LIC Bar for the first – and hopefully not last time.
    With the show scheduled to end around midnight and a list of about ten different artists performing, each woman's set was a brisk twenty minutes or so which was just enough to hear a quick sampling of each woman's music. (...). Lili Roquelin's set with cellist Madeleine Craw was by far the most beautiful moment of the night and although both women have only played with each other twice, they seem to have an instinctive sense of each other. Craw's deep and rich tones on the electric cello added an underlying texture to Roquelin's lovely soprano. (...)
    If there was one small thing to criticize, it was the fact that there could have been a little bit more variety among the artists. All but two of the artists came from a more folk, pop and traditional singer/songwriter mold and it would have been interesting to see a punk rocker, rapper, an R&B singer or something of that ilk. But regardless, if there's one larger positive thing to be said, the burgeoning future of the Astoria-LIC music scene is getting brighter by the moment, thanks in part to these talented artists. –William Ruben Helms, Ins&Outs Magazine, http://www.licmagazine.com