It might make sense to look at Saint Cloud, the beloved, spellbinding 2020 album from Waxahatchee, as a kind of beginning, as its nucleus Katie Crutchfield took her first steps toward a more alt-country sound. Then, her 2022 collaboration with […]
Though she’s best known as Waxahatchee, Katie Crutchfield has been making music as a part of a number of different projects for many years. As her four Waxahatchee records can attest, she’s best known for a grungy, garage rock sound. […]
Listening is inevitably a subjective process. That said, I do my best to practice suspending or expanding my default filters in order to be more receptive to forms of aesthetic excellence that might not be congruent with my preferences. For […]
2017 was a banner year for Americana. Jason Isbell and John Moreland, the genre’s flagbearers, released new albums and many emerging artists produced outstanding debut and sophomore efforts. A look back at 2017 is also laced with sadness upon the […]
It takes a lot of guts for songwriters to let us inside their hearts and minds – but of course that’s where some of the best songs come from. Waxahatchee’s new album throws open the doors and windows and beckons […]
On her fourth record as Waxahatchee, Katie Crutchfield has created her most sophisticated work yet. A scathing but stunning takedown of a skeevy ex, and an emergence as a stronger, more independent human being, Out in the Storm will hit close […]
The last time I attended SXSW I was a teenager, enthralled with the punk beats of the Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Suicidal Tendencies. In 2016, instead of prepping my body for the rigors of a mosh pit, I traveled to […]
