Portland artists playing CMJ: teenage phenomenon Grace Mitchell

The CMJ festival is currently on in NYC, and we stumbled upon a Portland artists that’s taking part in it we never covered before: Grace Mitchell. The 18 year old certainly sounds a lot older and wiser than her age in her blues-electro-pop sophomore EP "Raceday," which was released just a few weeks ago. Her tracks certainly don’t belong to the widespread "intimate female songwriter" category, but on the contrary possess almost invariably a bombastic pop element. It’s really hard to believe a teenager can have a vocal delivery as confident as hers.