“Grace Potter is the best female rock singer in the country right now…”

– USA Today (June 2012)

“…Lion roars with lighter-ready power ballads and hard-charging arena rockers.”
— Entertainment Weekly

“Grace Potter’s been blessed with one of the best voices in rock music today”
— Glamour (Aug. 29.2012)

“Like our own hearts’ desires, the energy on The Lion The Beast The Beat is frenzied and scattered, but incredibly dynamic. The Nocturnals’ hard-rocking guitars, tribal drums, and woozy, bluesy melodies churn against Potter’s totally electric voice, which, at turns, recalls the virtuosic performances of 1970s rock legend of Jefferson Airplane fame, Grace Slick.”
— Glamour

“The record is full of hip, modern flashes — synthrock beats and shimmery new wave keyboards. But its heart is in old-school rock ’n’ roll: big vocals, cool guitar licks and ballads fit for a breakup mixtape”
— Boston Herald

““It’s not exactly what would have happened if Blondie and the Black Keys had a baby, but it’s something like that.”
— Houston Press

““…think classic rock with a modern indie vibe… It’s radio ready pop classic rock that tastes so good”
— Vintage Guitar (Oct 2012)

“Potter, one of modern rock’s most dynamic frontwomen…rarely has she sounded this emphatic, her wounded voice exploding with raw sexuality”
— Billboard Magazine

“Naming your fourth album The Lion The Beast The Beat takes some serious cojones – but if “Never Go Back” is any indication, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals are rightfully swinging for the fences”
— Billboard Magazine

“She still got one powerful set of lungs and a pitch-perfect voice that can carry a moody song like “Runaway,” with its new-wave-throwback angst, into pure goose bump territory….“Loneliest Soul,” the one song on the album produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach throws with a sassy grit that showcases Potter at her restless best…””
— RELIX (June 2012)

“The group’s third disc, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (out in June), finds a sweet spot between rowdy, blues-driven live sound and tight, classic-rock songcraft.”
– Rolling Stone, Best new bands of 2010 (April 2010)

“The Nocturnals third disc tilts from Janis Joplin-esque bluster, to laid-back singer-songwriter soul that recalls a toughened-up Jorah Jones, to Alanis-like blasts of epic recrimination.”
Rolling Stone (June 2010)

“…their self-titled album runs like a 1973 mustang convertible and may make a star of Potter, 27, who has already driven crowds crazy…Leave it to a dude from Brooklyn and a long-haired band from Vermont to collaborate on the year’s best Southern-rock album”
Playboy (July 2010)

“…with a sizzling concert…the performance was a gripping moment in music where a girl and her band (who’ve enjoyed critical and cult admiration) showed they could hold their own with the biggest acts in music.”
(live review – 8/21/10)

4 star album review – “Vermont Group Hits Peak Top to bottom this CD features an eclecticism that projects blues/rock swagger with a hint of funk. Potter and company..deserve the hype.”
(6/8/10)

“If you consider them still a jam band, consider them the most hard-rocking of the bunch, such as the Rolling Stones (circa “Exile on Main St.”) fronted by a young Etta James/Tina Turner/Bonnie Raitt- type singer. Blues and soul underpin most everything, but nothing sounds dated or retro.”
(5/30/10)

“A blues-rock band with a shimmering pop finish.”
(July 2010)

“…this coed quintet with a bluesy front-woman makes rootsy pop-rock that works day or night.”
(7/12/10)

Grade A: “…Grace Potter belts out pointed, chest-pounding lyrics backed by a wickedly groovy mélange of R&B, rock and blues…an auspicious effort that definitely needs to be heard.”
(6/8/10)

“The afternoon music lineup in Lilith Village culminated with a rousing performance by Vermont’s Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. With her commanding voice, the fiery blond frontwoman lead her hirsute male bandmembers (and brunette bass player Catherine Popper) through a strong set that was worthy of a slot on the main stage.”
(6/28/10)

“…you’d swear you were hearing the mighty Ike & Tina Revue rocking while rolling down the murky river. Such hard-soul appropriation isn’t new. Yet, Grace and her band of late-night renown do, indeed, keep it fresh…and Potter has never had more swagger and raw sensuality in her voice.
(6/20/10)

“It is rare to see a performer with such power over a crowd. She captured and held everyone’s attention all night with every lusty howl, every devastating smile, every sway of the hips drawing us closer until nothing existed but her and the anticipation of what she might do next.”
(10/20/10)

“Potter may very well morph into a superstar, but along the way she’s demonstrating that she can do belting Janis Joplin, fiery Melissa Etherigde, Stonesy Tina Turner, mellow Bonnie Raitt—she can even do a wounded-but-strong hot-country Shania Twain thing.”
(June 2010)

“She’s a ferocious performer, alternately smart and slithery and sexy. …this set only reminded me of her greatness.”
(10/12/10 – Austin City Limits festival)

“Grace is a bona fide rock star….as far as female rockers go, Grace is in a league of her own.”
(Sept/Oct 2010 – live review of 6/12/10 NYC show)

“…an artist to watch.”
(6/9/10)

“Sexy” is the word that most accurately describes everything about Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Even when she isn’t making out with Catherine Popper onstage – although it’s definitely a plus when she is – she and the band pour a passion into their show that leaves the audience a sweaty, exhausted, fulfilled mess
(8/23/10)

BAND CRUSH: GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS
“… despite the 60′s and 70′s-inspired bluesy rock beats, these melodies are still undeniably current… the band has been creeping its way into the public consciousness with a soulful sound that blurs across several genres… With a homegrown sound like this that can only be perfected over time, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals prove that sometimes slow and steady does win the race.

“There is much more than hard-driving rockers and sexual bravado to Grace Potter & the Nocturnals… it’s an influential rock album that could and should lead to mainstream success for the New England group.”
(7/28/10)

“…in their third CD release, exhibit all the elements that make for a kick-ass rock band: facility in a number of musical genres, tight instrumental voicings and dynamics, and a vocalist capable of blowing the doors off any number of contemporary musical pop-tarts. All that, plus original songs, makes for a winning hand.
(7/13/10)

Why she matters: It’s easy to see a pretty girl with an acoustic guitar and lump her in with all sorts of Starbucks-ready singer-songwriters. But not with Grace. Confrontational and unafraid, her sultry, sometimes bluesy pop has garnered appreciation from hard rockers and ballad-lovers alike.
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“Unstoppable nuclear bombshell Grace Potter demands to be a star. And she will be…”
(July/Aug 2010)

• American Songwriter

  The band’s new dual-guitar lineup matches the energy of her vocal attack: joining the college buddies who started playing together eight years ago in Vermont – Potter plus lead guitarist Scott Tournet and drummer Matt Burr – are bassist Catherine Popper and rhythm guitarist Benny Yurco. Their performances on the ablum are highly polished, yet with no small amount of bite. — American Songwriter

• Rolling Stone

  Vermont five-piece led by 26-year-old singer-organist Grace Potter, whose earthy, powerful vocals recall Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt . . .Grace Potter & the Nocturnals (out in June), finds a sweet spot between rowdy, blues-drive live sound and tight, classic-rock songcraft. — Rolling Stone

• JamBase / Atlanta Tabernacle Show

  The Nocturnals are a road-hungry, full-force, four-alarm, head-bobbing rock band, as evidenced by the remainder of the set. “If I Was From Paris,” “Ah Mary” and “Mastermind” followed and are perhaps better representations of what this band is truly about; rock n’ roll in its blues-heavy, red-blooded American splendor, with songs about sex, deception, drinking and love, delivered with a striking authenticity and Potter’s honest, sweat-drenched, soulful vocals.
  - JamBase / Atlanta Tabernacle Show