Well that’s it from us for this week dear reader. It’s been a miserable week to be a website associated with the USA – this website of course like Woody Guthrie’s guitar kills fascists but killing fascists is exhausting. Anyway, as a reminder that nice things comes out of the country too, we leave you with a new track from the Grammy-nominated Waxahatchee which is an outtake from her latest album “Tigers Blood” – “I’m a fool in angel’s clothing, I’m a glutton for being let down but I can’t help you, I can’t stick around” she sings, and it’s a great tune as always, featuring as it does none other than MJ Lenderman on backing vocals and electric guitar, vocals and drums from Spencer Tweedy, bass from Brad Cook, and some nice banjo and piano from Phil Cook.
Solidarity as always with Palestine, and this week the ICC and USAID too. Answers on a postcard please for who’ll be next. Take care out there.
Waxahatchee is one of those artists who flew under the radar of our humble site until fairly recently. Her album Saint Cloud, featured in a number of end of year lists for 2020, and over the weekend just gone, Waxa herself aka Katie Crutchfield celebrated the record's first anniversary with…
Well that's it for our first week of the new year - apologies for the scarcity of content but we're still waking up. We leave you dear reader with evidence of the importance of quality over quantity in the form of the new single by Alabama's Waxahatchee who have shared…
Well that's it from us for this week dear reader. We leave you with a rather fantastic little cover of Big Star's 'Thirteen' from the wonderful collaboration of Bedouine’s Azniv Korkejian, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra, something of a standard for country-leaning indie artists.…
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